Cynical Reason’s Neatest Trick!

Cynical reason, as defined by Slavoj Žižek via Peter Sloterdijk, is as follows: “Peter Sloterdijk puts forward the thesis that ideology’s dominant mode of functioning is cynical, which renders impossible—or, more precisely, vain—the classic critical-ideological procedure. The cynical subject is quite aware of the distance between the ideological mask and the social reality, but he none the less…