In 2006, cultural critic and philosopher Steven Shaviro described V for Vendetta as a film that “pull no punches” and “doesn’t draw back from its more dangerous initial implications in the ways that high-budget adaptations of comics so often do.” He also stated that the “destruction of the British Parliament at the end of the film is the most emphatic such endorsement of subversive terrorist action since Fight Club.” The 2005 movie is based on a graphic novel by Alan Moore, stars Natalie Portman, and gave anarchists around the world an identity: the Guy Fawkes mask. And it is here that Shaviro provided a deep insight about revolutions. The transformation of an ordinary subject into a revolutionary one requires the destruction of the former. Shaviro, borrowing from another important cultural critic (Slavoj Žižek), calls this “subjective destitution.” CHARLES MUDEDE

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