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Contrary to the standard idealist argument that conceives ugliness as the defective mode of beauty, as its distortion, one should assert the ontological primacy of ugliness: it is beauty that is a kind of defense against the Ugly in its repulsive existence -- or, rather, against existence tout court, since . . . what is ugly is ultimately the brutal fact of existence (of the real) as such. - Slavoj Zizek, "Ugly Jouissance"
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Contrary to the standard idealist argument that conceives ugliness as the defective mode of beauty, as its distortion, one should assert the ontological primacy of ugliness: it is beauty that is a kind of defense against the Ugly in its repulsive existence -- or, rather, against existence tout court, since . . . what is ugly is ultimately the brutal fact of existence (of the real) as such. - Slavoj Zizek, "Ugly Jouissance"
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