The Pinocchio Theory slår huvudet på spiken ang Zizek:

There is something drearily reactive about always trying to prove that the opposite of what everyone else thinks is really correct. It’s an elitist gesture of trumpeting one’s own independence from the (alleged) common herd; but at the same time, it reveals a morbid dependence upon, or concern with, the very majority opinions that one pretends to scorn. If all you are doing is inverting common opinion, that is the clearest sign possible that you are utterly dependent upon such common opinion: it motivates and governs your every gesture. That is why you need so badly to negate it. Zizek totally depends upon the well-meaning, right-thinking liberal ideology that he sets out to frustrate and contradict at every turn. His own ideas remain parasitic upon those of the postmodern, multicultural consensus that he claims to upset.

Som princip fungerar detta också som en kritik mot det "avantgarderi" som enbart positionerar sig som en negation av det redan existerande: normbrytande, transgression: "[xxx] UTMANAR våra INVANDA FÖRESTÄLLNINGAR om [yyy] ..." - som konstärligt koncept är "subversionen" hopplöst reaktionär, ett självgott parasiterande på det man påstår sig överskrida.