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True love is precisely the opposite move of forsaking the promise of Eternity itself for an imperfect individual.
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love
eternity
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Slavoj Žižek |
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In a speech to Harvard graduates in May 2017, Zuckerberg told his public: 'Our job is to create a sense of purpose!' This comes from a man who, with Facebook, has created the world's most expansive instrument of purposeless loss of time.)
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Slavoj Žižek |
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It is easy for an academic to claim at a round table that we live in a post-ideological universe - the moment he visits the restroom after the heated discussion, he is again deep-knee in ideology.
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tragicomedy
zeitgeist
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Slavoj Žižek |
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Populism is ultimately always sustained by the frustrated exasperation of ordinary people, by the cry "I don't know what is going on, but I've just had enough of it! It cannot go on! It must stop!" Such impatient outbursts betray a refusal to understand or engage with the complexity of the situation, and give rise to the conviction that there must be somebody responsible for the mess--which is why some agent lurking behind the scenes is inv..
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Slavoj Žižek |
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Up to a decade or two ago, the system production-nature (man's productive-exploitative relationship with nature and its resources) was perceived as a constant, whereas everybody was busy imagining different forms of the social organization of production and commerce (Fascism or Communism as alternatives to liberal capitalism); today, as Fredric Jameson perspicaciously remarked, nobody seriously considers possible alternatives to capitalism ..
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nature
world
humanity
catastrophe
ecological
global
liberal
end
exploitation
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Slavoj Žižek |
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4b9a6f4
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See you, either in Hell, or in Communism.
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Slavoj Žižek |
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The force of universalism is in you Basques, not in the Spanish state
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Slavoj Žižek |
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Memento mori should be read: don't forget to die.
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Slavoj Žižek |
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Even the dead will not be safe from the enemy if he wins.
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Slavoj Žižek |
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Heidegger is 'great' not in spite of, but because of his Nazi engagement...
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Slavoj Žižek |