Toilets, Fist-Fucking, and You

Yet Zizek doesn't shy away from more traditional problems in political and social philosophy. Elsewhere, in his Parallax View, Zizek reflects on Marx's concept of "historical materialism," making a foray into the depths of the relations, forces, and nature society - with a keen eye towards in what 'progress' consists:

“The dialectical ‘progress’ thus first goes through a series of variations with regard to the relationship between face, sexual organs, and other bodily parts, and the modes of their respective uses: the organ remains the phallus, but the opening to be penetrated changes (anus, mouth) . . . the goal itself is no longer orgasm (fetishism). Fist-fucking introduces into this series an impossible synthesis of hand (the organ of instrumental activity, of hard work) and vagina (the organ of ‘spontaneous’ passive generation). The first (focus of purposeful work, the hand as the most tightly controlled and trained part of our body) replaces the phallus (the organ out of our conscious control par excellence, since its erection comes and goes independently of our will) . . . there are, of course, further variations here which call for their speculative deduction: in masculine masturbation, the vagina, the ultimate passive organ, is substituted by the hand, the ultimate active organ which passavizes the phallus itself. Furthermore, when the phallus penetrates the anus, we obtain the correct insight into the speculative identify of excrementation and insemination . . ."

Nice. I never knew the laws of historical materialism were so dirty. Go figure. Wtf Zizek, wtf.