žižek archive
⌘K
archive / stories / Conchita Wurst and Putin's reaction

Conchita Wurst and Putin's reaction

example · retold in 4 talks
on the map →

Austria's Eurovision winner Conchita Wurst (bearded drag performer) provoked horror in Russia, Putin cited the Bible on two sexes, while a Russian ideologist called her a symbol of decadent Europe, used to illustrate the political-ideological function of fears about sexual difference.

2015: 1 talk 2016: 2 talks
≤2000talks it is told in, per year2026

As told 3

“Putin says: 'What's happening? In the Bible it says...we have two sexes. What do we have now, third one?'”
~0:00 From Pleasure-in-Pain To Surplus-Enjoyment2016-04-18 · 2:20:14
“No wonder you have Brexit here, you also don't want to be dominated by bearded girls.”
23:34 Against the Double Blackmail2016-04-20 · 1:27:51
“Putin said: I read in the Bible there are two kinds of people, men and women. What is going on now here?”
29:37 Modern How-To Guide2015-05-05 · 1:23:04

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)

contents · one story, 3 jobsuses
sexual difference ×1 politicization of religion ×1 ideology ×1

Its cast and sources

populated by
Vladimir Zhirinovsky2Mohammed Assaf2Ivan Hvala1Frédéric Lordon1Elvis Presley1Salah Abdeslam1Karsten Nordal Hauken1Georges Sorel1
alongside works
Short History of the Communist Party (Soviet)1Politeia (Republic)1Main Currents of Marxism (vol. 1)1La Jalousie: Géométrie du désir1Initiation to the Philosophy for Non-Philosophers1The Falling Rate of Enjoyment: Consumer Capitalism and Compulsive Buying Disorder1Diacritics1The Capitalist Unconscious: Lacan and Marx1

Every retelling 3

~0:00 From Pleasure-in-Pain To Surplus-Enjoyment2016-04-18 · 2:20:14
Austria's Eurovision winner Conchita Wurst (bearded drag performer) provoked horror in Russia, Putin cited the Bible on two sexes, while a Russian ideologist called her a symbol of decadent Europe, used to illustrate the political-ideological function of fears about sexual difference., illustrating sexual difference versus gender identity,ideology and populism
23:34 Against the Double Blackmail2016-04-20 · 1:27:51
Austrian drag queen Conchita Wurst won the Eurovision Song Contest; Putin cited the Bible on two genders and the purpose of marriage, while Zhirinovsky called it 'the end of Europe' and Rogozin tweeted about 'a bearded girl' as Europe's future, illustrating that the real feared object of cultural difference is immoral depravity, not military or economic threat., illustrating sexual difference as political,cultural war,liberal versus fundamentalist
29:37 Modern How-To Guide2015-05-05 · 1:23:04
Putin's reaction to Conchita Wurst winning Eurovision was almost a step towards Boko Haram, citing the Bible's two kinds of people, men and women, illustrating the link between sexual politics and religious-fundamentalist reaction to modernity., illustrating politicization of religion,sexuality-gender,fundamentalism