Hotel in Skopje: ashtray with no-smoking sign

As told 3

“Smoking is prohibited in this hotel, but no problem, you have ashtray on the table there.”
24:17 Like a Thief in the Night: A Question of Manners2018-03-09 · 1:54:02

“Of course it's not permitted, it's prohibited by the law, but you have ashtrays in the room so this is not a problem.”
1:56 What is Happening with Sex in our World?2018-06-02 · 1:00:42

“on the bottom of this ashtray, there was an image painted, the standard 'smoking is prohibited' image.”
32:10 Lubitsch in Times of Political Correctness2018-01-27 · 1:50:16

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, 2 jobsuses

economy of transgression ×3 perversion as the dark other side of power ×2

Its cast and sources

populated by

Catherine Deneuve2 Joan Williams1 Mikhail Prishvin1 Linda Tripp1 Sarah Silverman1 Max Stirner1 Shulamith Firestone1 Eduardo Cadava1

alongside works

Sex and the City2 Justine1 Liebe dein Symptom wie dich selbst1 An Hour with You1 Cluny Brown1 The Broken Lullaby1 Venus in Furs1 The Last Laugh1

Told together with

33% Yugoslav army: Geneva Convention then targeting parachuters 2 shared talks 17% Brassed Off coffee invitation 3 shared talks

Every retelling 3

24:17 Like a Thief in the Night: A Question of Manners2018-03-09 · 1:54:02

In a Skopje hotel room, the ashtray provided on the table was inscribed with the image 'smoking prohibited.' The prohibition and its direct enabling coexist on the same object with no 'but' between them, the perfect metaphor for how law and transgression belong together in contemporary ideology., illustrating law and its obscene underside,perversion as the dark other side of power

1:56 What is Happening with Sex in our World?2018-06-02 · 1:00:42

In a Macedonian hotel, the receptionist says smoking is prohibited but ashtrays are provided, a dissonance openly admitted and therefore treated as nonexistent. The ashtray itself bore a no-smoking symbol., illustrating prohibition and permission,ideology,obscene underside of the law

32:10 Lubitsch in Times of Political Correctness2018-01-27 · 1:50:16

Žižek's hotel room in Skopje had ashtrays with a 'no-smoking' image painted on the bottom, alongside an empty ashtray on the bedside table, openly combining prohibition and permission with no sense of contradiction, which Žižek takes as the best metaphor for contemporary ideology., illustrating perversion as hidden obverse of power,ideology as codified transgression,law and its inherent violation