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Zizek’s violence is a fresh and intriguing outlook onto the concept of violence. Violence is often perceived as being just physical, however Zizek proposes the compelling notion that the violence we see can be epistemologically understood by exploring political and economic systems. More namely, exploring consumer capitalism and Liberalism as systems which have generated systematic violence. The typologies of violence as being objective, subjective, systematic and symbolic are identified and throughout the book, you can begin to see where these terms of violence can be applied to the jigsaw puzzle that is society and individualism. Empirically speaking, Zizek explores current examples of where violence is displayed on a wider scale. Violent political outbreaks in Israel and Palestine are named examples, as well as drawing conclusions from global terrorism. Political philosophers such as Marx and Engels are also referred too throughout. I cannot help but agree with the notion