Vighi, Fabio and Heiko Feldner. Žižek Beyond Foucault. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007. Print.
What emerges from all of Žižek’s writings is that there is no universal formula or practice which would instantly allow us to accede to the explosive Real of capital. page 137
The Real, however, is not some kind of immutable Thing-in-itself “about which you can do nothing except symbolize it in different terms”. it is rather “freedom as a radical cut in the texture of reality”, the point being “that you can intervene in the Real” Žižek and Daly, 2004, 150, 166)
The act is Real insofar as it is not determined by the existing symbolic order and cannot rely on its normative support, it is free, for as a “mad” gesture it can only be made sense of retroactively; it is ethical inasmuch as “you assume that there is no big Other (Žižek and Daly 2004, 163) and revolutionary because it is the condition of possiblity for any radical break with the generative matrix of global capitalism. The ethico-poltical act, then, is the third manifestation (beside the subject and the Real) of Žižek’s key Hegelian motif of absolute self-relating negativity.