The Slovenian philosopher Slavoj Žižek took part in the Global Öcalan Books Day with a video contribution. "It is an honor for me to read to you two passages from Abdullah Öcalan's wonderful short text: How to live, what to do, where to start. This text speaks directly to the fundamental problem facing all of us today: where do we stand with our subjectivity, what is the authentic subjective position in the chaos of today's world? So let me begin," Žižek says in the video. 

Slavoj Žižek said: "I consider this text to be something that radiates and shows an almost metaphysical beauty. He once again gives the exact coordinates of where we are. We live in a system that presents itself as individualistic, each of us should live a unique life, not like others. But beneath this vain, empty diversity there is a rather boring similarity. Insofar as we want to function as unique individuals, we are like everyone else. What shall we do? Öcalan delivers a wonderful, precise metaphor here: vomiting up the system. This does not mean destroying all of reality and so on, but rather freeing ourselves at the core of our subjectivity from being embedded in the existing ideological coordinates in which we live and which we accept as natural."