Berlusconi's bunga bunga room
anecdote · personal/autobiographical ·
retold in 3 talks
A journalist from The Economist told Žižek that Berlusconi, in interview, immediately diverted from economics to offer a tour of his 'bunga bunga room', exemplifying how today's power legitimizes itself through self-mockery rather than solemn authority.
≤2000talks it is told in, per year2026
As told 3
“Berlusconi told him, but forget about economy, let's talk about more nicer things, would you like to see the bunga bunga room”
“claims that Berlusconi is impotent are lies and that Mr. Berlusconi is ready to prove this in court.”
“half a year ago, the berlusconi government proclaimed a permanent state of emergency in all of italy?”
What it carries
one story, many jobs: the ideas this anecdote is deployed to argue, one tally mark per use (an idea page shows the same relation from the other end, as its shelf of stories)
Its cast and sources
populated by
Marxists (Old)1Richard Sennett1Samir Amin1Alain Finkielkraut1Anthony Giddens, Baron Giddens2Jean Genet1Silvio Berlusconi2Bernard Madoff1
alongside works
Every retelling 3
A journalist from The Economist told Žižek that Berlusconi, in interview, immediately diverted from economics to offer a tour of his 'bunga bunga room', exemplifying how today's power legitimizes itself through self-mockery rather than solemn authority., illustrating post-democratic authoritarian system,new forms of power
4:32 Slovenian Philosopher Slavoj Zizek on Capitalism, and the "Farcical" Financial Crisis 1 of 22009-10 · 10:00
Berlusconi's lawyer publicly claimed his client is not impotent, ready to prove it in court, illustrating the obscene, indecent public face of modern power., illustrating cynical ideology
The Italian government declared a permanent state of emergency to legally deploy the army in cities against the mafia and immigrants, normalizing the state of exception and the use of military force in democratic settings., illustrating permanent state of emergency