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| 41fb3d5 | And that's when I heard it. That's when I heard the ghost's harsh whisper. It seemed to be coming from the open closet. "Welcome ..." I heard. "Welcome. Welcome to your DOOM." | R.L. Stine | ||
| 40fb579 | Sneeze on Monday, sneeze for danger. Sneeze on Tuesday, kiss a stranger. Sneeze on Wednesday, sneeze for a letter. Sneeze on Thursday, something better. Sneeze on Friday, sneeze for woe. Sneeze on Saturday, a journey to go. | R.L. Stine (author) | ||
| 561b00a | Crossword?" he would ask." | Markus Zusak | ||
| 538a33d | la libertad formal precede a la libertad real, creando las condiciones para esta ultima. | Slavoj Žižek | ||
| fb0d6e7 | I]n so far as postmodern politics involves a '[t]heoretical retreat from the problem of domination within capitalism,' it is here, in this silent suspension of class analysis, that we are dealing with an exemplary case of the mechanism of ideological displacement: when class antagonism is disavowed, when its key structuring role is suspended, 'other markers of social difference may come to bear an inordinate weight; indeed, they may bear al.. | philosopy political-theory postmodernism | Slavoj Žižek | |
| 5cdbaa6 |
Debemos abandonar inexorablemente el juicio preconcebido de que el tiempo lineal de la evolucion esta < |
Slavoj Žižek | ||
| 5754271 | The Deleuzian philosopher Brian Massumi clearly formulated how today's capitalism has already overcome the logic of totalizing normality and adopts instead a logic of erratic excess: the more varied, and even erratic, the better. Normalcy starts to lose its hold. The regularities start to loosen, This loosening of normalcy is part of capitalism's dynamic. It's not a simple liberation. It's capitalism's own form of power. It's no longer disc.. | normality | Slavoj Žižek | |
| b91bad1 | No wonder that tantra is so popular today in the West: it offers the ultimate "spiritual logic of late capitalism" uniting spirituality and earthly pleasures, transcendence and material benefits, divine experience and unlimited shopping. It propagates the permanent transgression of all rules, the violation of all taboos, instant gratification as the path to enlightenment; it overcomes old-fashioned "binary" thought, the dualism of mind and .. | Slavoj Žižek | ||
| 2f114b2 | surprised at seeing a horse-shoe above the door of Bohr's country house, a fellow scientist exclaimed that he did not share the superstitious belief that horse-shoes kept evil spirits away, to which Bohr snapped back, 'I don't believe in it either. I have it there because I was told that it works even when one doesn't believe in it'. This is indeed how ideology functions today: nobody takes democracy or justice seriously, we are all aware .. | Slavoj Žižek | ||
| e0549e3 | el proletariado queda dividido en tres partes, cada una de ellas opuesta a las otras: los trabajadores intelectuales, llenos de prejuicios culturales contra los trabajadores poco cultivados; los obreros, que despliegan un odio populista hacia los intelectuales y los marginados, que como tales son antagonistas de la sociedad. El viejo grito <> es, por ello, mas pertinente que nunca: | Slavoj Žižek | ||
| 4789957 | For Lacan, psychoanalysis at its most fundamental is not a theory and technique of treating psychic disturbances, but a theory and practice that confronts individuals with the most radical dimension of human existence. It does not show an individual the way to accommodate him- or herself to the demands of social reality; instead it explains how something like 'reality' constitutes itself in the first place. It does not merely enable a human.. | Slavoj Žižek | ||
| d9b616d | Recall Marx's fundamental insight about the "bourgeois" limitation of the logic of equality: capitalist inequalities ("exploitation") are not the "unprincipled violations of the principle of equality," but are absolutely inherent to the logic of equality, they are the paradoxical result of its consistent realization. What we have in mind here is not only the wearisome old motif of how market exchange presupposes formally/legally equal subje.. | equality freedom marx terror | Slavoj Žižek | |
| 586d09d | art is not just a heightened procedure of providing sensual pleasures, but a medium of Truth; | Slavoj Žižek | ||
| c97b50a | the act is by definition partial, it involves guilt, but the judging consciousness does not admit that its judging is also an act, it refuses to include itself in what it judges. It ignores the fact that the true evil lies in the neutral gaze which sees evil everywhere around itself, so that it is no less tainted than the acting consciousness. | Slavoj Žižek | ||
| f8b02ba | Nosotros somos aquellos a quienes hemos estado esperando>> no significa que hayamos descubierto que somos el agente predestinado por la suerte (la necesidad historica) para desempenar la tarea; significa totalmente lo opuesto, que no hay ningun gran Otro en quien apoyarse. | Slavoj Žižek | ||
| e5fdb30 | Reality is for those who cannot face their dream. | psychoanalysis reality symptom | Slavoj Žižek | |
| e271cc6 | if we only change reality in order to realize our dreams, and do not change these dreams themselves, sooner or later we regress back to the old reality. | Slavoj Žižek | ||
| abba2e4 | Antigone Don't you realise that you're talking to a dead woman alive? Chorus It's because you run yourself out in a grief with no cure , no time limit, no measure. It is a knot no one can untie. Why are you so in love with things unbearable? | Slavoj Žižek | ||
| 0285b87 | But the excluded don't need sympathy and compassion from the privileged, they don't want others to speak for them, they themselves should speak and articulate their plight. So in speaking for them, you betrayed them even more than your uncle - you deprived them of their voice. | Slavoj Žižek | ||
| 33d6190 | Dvije stavke odreduju danasnji liberalan tolerantni stav prema drugima: postivanje drugih, otvorenost spram njih i opsesivni strah od uznemiravanja. Drugi je OK toliko dugo dok njegovo prisustvo nije nametljivo, toliko dugo dok drugi nije doista drugi. Tolerancija se podudara sa svojom suprotnoscu: moja duznost da budem tolerantan spram drugog u biti znaci da mu ne smijem doci preblizu, da ne smijem uci u njegov/njezin prostor - ukratko, da.. | Slavoj Žižek | ||
| 5ed0cf0 | Thus 2t Grams confronts us with the same interpretive dilemma as the one in The Wings of the Dove: is the suicidal sacrificial gesture a true ethical act or not? In contrast to Wings, the answer here is yes: there is no narcissistic staging of one's death at work when Paul shoots himself, no manipulative strategy of using one's death as a gift destined to secretly sabotage what it appears to make possible. | Slavoj Žižek | ||
| f7fdea9 | What if eternity is a sterile, impotent, lifeless domain of pure potentialities, which, in order fully to actualize itself, has to pass through temporal existence? | Slavoj Žižek | ||
| 645cff6 | Fundamentalist Islamic terror is not grounded in the terrorists' conviction of their superiority and in their desire to safeguard their cultural-religious identity from the onslaught of global consumerist civilization. | Slavoj Žižek | ||
| ef137df | bzwG Hrk@ tZhr dwly@ bdwn brnmj mtmsk hy bltly lyst mSdf@, nh t`ks 'zm@ '`mq, 'zm@ bdwn Hl wDH. ldymqrTy@ mw'ss@ `l~ Hkm lqnwn. ldymqrTy@ t`ml fHsb dkhl Hdwd wDH@ wbyn 'ns ysh`rwn b'nfshm kjz mn ldwl@ nfsh. "mjtm` dwly" ymkn 'n tTlb lwf bmHfZ@ wqy'y@ `lmy@ mn mlyr dwr, bqydth lmHtmyn bmldh mn lDry'b wmwZfyh lmtnthryn Hwl l`lm." | Slavoj Žižek | ||
| ca01e82 | Fundamentalist Islamic terror is not grounded in the terrorists' conviction of their superiority and in their desire to safeguard their cultural-religious identity from the onslaught of global consumerist civilization. The problem with fundamentalists is not that we consider them inferior to us, but, rather, that they themselves secretly consider themselves inferior. | Slavoj Žižek | ||
| 606c9c0 | When the subject goes behind the curtain of appearance to search for the hidden essence, he thinks he will discover something that was always there; he does not realize that in passing behind the curtain, he is bringing with him the very thing that he will find. | Slavoj Žižek | ||
| e9d09c8 | kyf nstTy` m'ss@ Sn`@ lqrr ljm`y fym wr Tr `ml lnZm mt`dd Hzb ldymqrTy? 'w lnql dhlk bshkl fZ: mn y`lm m ynbGy f`lh lywm? twjd dht t`rf, fy shkl lmthqfyn w lns l`dyyn. hl hnk m'dhq dhn, Hl@ `m~ ldhy yqwd '`m~, 'w bdq@ 'kbr, '`m~ yqwd '`m~ fy Hyn 'n kl mnhm yftrD 'n khr bmknh lrw'y@? , n ljhl lmzdwj lys symtry. nhm lns ldhyn ymlkwn ljbt, nhm fqT y`rfwn sy'l@ lty ymlkwn -'w bHr~ hm- jbth. | Slavoj Žižek | ||
| 27b8953 | Als Prasident Obama den Aufstand als legitime Meinungsausserung begrusste, die von der Regierung anerkannt werden musse, war die Verwirrung komplett. Die Massen in Kairo und Alexandria wollten keine Anerkennung ihrer Forderungen durch die Regierung, deren Rechtmassigkeit sie rundweg ablehnten. Sie wunschten sich das Mubarak-Regime nicht als Gesprachspartner, sie wollten, dass Mubarak verschwand. Ihr Ziel war nicht nur eine neue Regierung, d.. | egypt mubarak revolution zizek | Slavoj Žižek | |
| 988fb06 | lfsd byn lsysyyn wrjl `ml wlbnkywn ytrkn b Hyl@ | Slavoj Žižek | ||
| 1bba84e | European civilisation finds it easier to tolerate differ- ent ways of life precisely on account of what its critics usually denounce as its weakness and failure, namely the alienation of social life. One of the things alienation means is that distance is woven into the very social texture of everyday life. Even if I live side by side with others, in my normal state I ignore them. I am allowed not to get too close to others. I move in a s.. | Slavoj Žižek | ||
| 36a9f63 | Money is precisely an object whose status depends on how we 'think' about it: if people no longer treat this piece of metal as money, if they no longer 'believe' in it as money, it no longer is money. | metal money object status | Slavoj Žižek | |
| 4f9fe81 | She was lost in pine and mountainside, her knuckles bony white. | Markus Zusak | ||
| b9ca71a | Because just as in more confused times, like today, we don't just need experts. We also need people who will think more radically to arrive at the real root of problems. So the first thing to fight for, I think, is simply to make people, the experts in certain domains, be aware of not just accepting that there are problems, but of thinking more deeply. It is an attempt to make them see more. I think it can be done. I believe this may be the.. | Slavoj Žižek | ||
| 1eb7a7f | IN AN OLD YUGOSLAV JOKE mocking police corruption, a policeman returns home unexpectedly and finds his wife naked in their marital bed, obviously hot and excited. Suspecting that he surprised her with a lover, he starts to look around the room for a hidden man. The wife goes pale when he leans down to look under the bed; but after some brief whispering, the husband rises with a satisfied, smug smile and says "Sorry, my love, false alarm. Th.. | Slavoj Žižek | ||
| 41a8c2c | It was all of this: The beat and the heat and the neat repeat of the notes which poured from the congohelium--metal never made for music, matter and anti-matter locked in a fine magnetic grid to ward off the outermost perils of space. Now a piece of it was deep in the body of Old Earth, counting out strange cadences. The churn and the burn and the hot return of music riding the living rock, accompanying itself in an air-carried echo. The su.. | Cordwainer Smith | ||
| 62bad7c | Chang nodded sagely. "My father insisted on it. He said, 'You may be proud of being a scanner. I am sorry you are not a man. Conceal your defects.' So I tried. I wanted to tell the old boy about the up-and-out, and what we did there, but it did not matter. He said, 'Airplanes were good enough for Confucius, and they are for me too.' The old humbug!" | Cordwainer Smith | ||
| f6a476a | Meeya Meefla, where | Cordwainer Smith | ||
| fe05c22 | She warned him, kindly enough, about manners when he forgot the simple ceremonies of eating which everyone knew, such as standing up to unfold the napkin or putting the scraps into the solvent tray and the silverware into the transfer. | Cordwainer Smith | ||
| 7ef82d6 | There is no call for you to get tragic about it. Tragedy is easy enough to contrive. And if you want to be tragic, you can be tragic without destroying thirty thousand other people or without wasting a large amount of Earth property. You can drown in water right here, or jump into a volcano like the Japanese in the old books. Tragedy is not the hard part. The hard part is when you don't quite succeed and you have to keep on fighting. When y.. | Cordwainer Smith | ||
| f8af7b6 | Evrimsel olarak daima kesin olan bahsi oynamak mantiklidir; atalarinizin emekliligi ya da kalp krizini dusunmesi gerekmiyordu. Beyniniz torunlarinizla tanismanin muhtemel olmadigi bir dunyada evrimlesti. Beyninizin aptal maymun tarafi sekerlemeleri cabucak yiyip bitirmek ve borca batmak istiyor. | David McRaney | ||
| 2c0dea7 | Any extended period of negative emotions can lead to you giving in to despair and accepting your fate. If you remain alone for a long time, you will decide loneliness is a fact of life and pass up opportunities to hang out with people. The loss of control in any situation can lead to this state. | David McRaney | ||
| 25dcd83 | THE MISCONCEPTION: Your opinions of people and events are based on objective evaluation. THE TRUTH: You translate your physical world into words, and then believe those words. | David McRaney | ||
| d04b29e | Insanlari degerlerini satmakla suclayanlar, elinde kimsenin almak isteyecegi seyler olmayan saticilardir." - Patton Oswalt" | David McRaney | ||
| 2871012 | Mathematically speaking, though, there is a miracle happening every time you turn a page of this book. | David McRaney |