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Cars Burning in Paris Suburbs

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Žižek cites the burning of cars in Paris suburbs and protests against police shootings as examples of 'divine violence', an explosion of rage with no goal.

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“For me divine violence was for example you remember a couple of years ago when cars were burning in Paris suburbs?”
“it was their way of saying hi we are here we want to be visible”
“the cars that were burning in paris suburbs... they burned were the local mosques... they didn't have any program.”

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Žižek cites the burning of cars in Paris suburbs and protests against police shootings as examples of 'divine violence', an explosion of rage with no goal., illustrating divine violence
The 2005 Paris banlieue riots puzzled commentators, the youth burned local mosques first, making it clearly non-Islamist. Žižek reads it as 'phatic communication': a pure signal of 'we are here', which is why liberal pleas for peaceful protest missed the point., illustrating phatic communication,subjective violence as response to objective violence,post-politics
Youth in Paris suburbs burned cars and local mosques without a political program, acting as a communicative gesture ('I'm here, I want to be noted') rather than a political demand., illustrating irrational violent protest
Young immigrants in Paris suburbs burned thousands of cars and buildings in massive protests with no program, no Islamist agenda, indeed, they burned their own Islamist cultural institutions. Žižek reads this as paradigmatic post-ideological revolt: pure rage without utopian content., illustrating post-ideological revolt,rage without program,blind rage as symptom
The 2005 Paris banlieue riots, in which protesters burned their own mosques and cultural centers along with cars, had no program or Islamist agenda, a pure manifestation of rage, for Žižek a paradigm case of divine violence., illustrating divine violence,manifestation of rage