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| 77e5445 | E]galitarian political 'extremism' or 'excessive radicalism' should always be read as a phenomenon of ideologico-political displacement: as an index of its opposite, of a limitation, of a refusal actually to 'go to the end.' What was the Jacobins' recourse to radical 'terror' if not a kind of hysterical acting-out bearing witness to their inability to disturb the very fundamentals of economic order (private property, and so on)? And does th.. | Slavoj Žižek | ||
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En este preciso sentido, la Revolucion haitiana fue un < |
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| e1aa8fd | We thus have three levels of antagonism: the Two are never two, the One is never one, the Nothing is never nothing. Sinthome--the signifier of the barred Other--registers the antagonism of the Two, their non-relationship. The object a registers the antagonism of the One, its inability to be one. $ registers the antagonism of Nothing, its inability to be the Void at peace with itself, to annul all struggles. The position of Wisdom is that th.. | struggle philosophy lacan | Slavoj Žižek | |
| 680a351 | WHEN THE TURKISH COMMUNIST WRITER Panait Istrati visited the Soviet Union in the mid-1930s, the time of the big purges and show trials, a Soviet apologist trying to convince him about the need for violence against the enemies evoked the proverb "You can't make an omelet without breaking eggs," to which Istrati tersely replied: "All right. I can see the broken eggs. Where's this omelet of yours?" We should say the same about the austerity me.. | Slavoj Žižek | ||
| d61caba | Symptoms are never just secondary failures or distortions of the basically sound System--they are indicators that there is something "rotten" (antagonistic, inconsistent) in the very heart of the System." | Slavoj Žižek | ||
| 5e9f272 | Portanto, uma nova classe global vem surgindo, "com, digamos, passaporte indiano, castelo na Escocia, apartamento em Manhattan e ilha particular no Caribe". O paradoxo e que os membros dessa classe global "jantam privativamente, compram privativamente, veem obras de arte privativamente, tudo e privativo, privativo, privativo". Criam assim um mundo-vida so seu para resolver um problema hermeneutico angustiante; como explica Todd Millay, "as .. | Slavoj Žižek | ||
| e7863b6 | Not all is ideology, beneath the ideological mask, I am also a human person' is the very form of ideology, of its 'practical efficiency'. | zizek | Slavoj Žižek | |
| 87d0c9c | The last statement reveals more than may appear at first glance: it indicates that Greenspan's mistake was to expect that the lending institutions' enlightened self-interest would make them act more responsibly, more ethically, in order to avoid short-term self-propelling cycles of wild speculation which, sooner or later, burst like a bubble. In other words, his mistake concerned not the facts, the objective economic data or mechanisms; it .. | Slavoj Žižek | ||
| 3e8bdc1 | Over the last several months, public figures from the Pope downwards have bombarded us with the injunctions to fight against the culture of excessive greed and consumption. This disgusting spectacle of cheap moralization is an ideological operation if there ever was one: the compulsion (to expand) inscribed into the system itself is translated into a matter of personal sin, a private psychological propensity. The self-propelling circulation.. | Slavoj Žižek | ||
| c16d8c6 | My claim here is not merely that I am a materialist through and through, and that the subversive kernel of Christianity is accessible also to a materialist approach; my thesis is much stronger: this kernel is accessible only to a materialist approach--and vice versa: to become a true dialectical materialist, one should go through the Christian experience. | dialectics materialism | Slavoj Žižek | |
| 1f1e0b0 | Paganism is the ultimate Christian dream. | paganism | Slavoj Žižek | |
| 6334043 | even if we do not take things seriously, even if we keep an ironical distance, we are still doing them. | Slavoj Žižek | ||
| 51a9684 | True love is precisely the opposite move of forsaking the promise of Eternity itself for an imperfect individual. | love eternity | Slavoj Žižek | |
| 07b0f4f | 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.) | Slavoj Žižek | ||
| e856242 | 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. | tragicomedy zeitgeist | Slavoj Žižek | |
| 19a03b4 | 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.. | Slavoj Žižek | ||
| 9219d1d | 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 .. | nature world humanity catastrophe ecological global liberal end exploitation | Slavoj Žižek | |
| 54cfaf7 | Capping means to follow up with something good or better in a conversation. | Joan Elizabeth Klingel Ray | ||
| 874fdd1 | I cannot make speeches, Emma. . . . If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more'" (E 3:13)." | Joan Elizabeth Klingel Ray | ||
| 39f6083 | It is very unfair to judge of anybody's conduct, without an intimate knowledge of their situation. Nobody, who has not been in the interior of a family, can say what the difficulties of any individual of that family may be'" (E 1:18)." | Joan Elizabeth Klingel Ray | ||
| 282e45b | A voracious reader with a large memory for what she read, | Joan Elizabeth Klingel Ray | ||
| abb3906 | Sensibility, in Austen's time, meant relying on one's feelings as a guide to behavior, as a guide to truth. | Joan Elizabeth Klingel Ray | ||
| 471e297 | Emma is the eponymous heroine, which means having the name that is used as the title or name of something else.) | Joan Elizabeth Klingel Ray | ||
| 6e65d32 | Having "lost her bloom" in the eight years since her romance and break-up with Captain Wentworth before the novel begins, Anne is wispy and quiet, still in love with Wentworth, but feeling helpless to do anything about it because he hasn't attempted to contact her again, and protocol of the day says she can't make the first move in contacting him." | Joan Elizabeth Klingel Ray | ||
| cf69711 | By paying attention to another woman (Edward to Lucy and Frederick to Louisa), about whom he doesn't really care, each man hurts the woman he really loves and who really loves him. | Joan Elizabeth Klingel Ray | ||
| 3eae7a4 | The most famous courtesy book is Il Cortegiano by Baldassare Castiglione, published in 1528. | Joan Elizabeth Klingel Ray | ||
| be6b4aa | Dr. James Fordyce's Sermons to Young Women, published in 1765 | Joan Elizabeth Klingel Ray | ||
| dd8cc2c | At sixteen Helen was already famous, and at seventeen already forgotten, and very much alone. | Cordwainer Smith | ||
| 10cf96d | Was that what people learned between the stars? To care for other people very much indeed and to spring upon them only to reveal love and not devouring to their prey? | Cordwainer Smith | ||
| 804051f | He looked at his dry old hand and it seemed to him that in this atmosphere, he had himself become more reptilian than human. "I am caught by the dry, drab enturtlement of old, old age," he murmured, but the voice was weak and the robots did not hear him." | Cordwainer Smith | ||
| f7e5755 | KENnEDY SHOT. OSWALD SHOT TOO. | Cordwainer Smith | ||
| a5f47db | There is no all- purpose computer built that weighs as little as a hundred and fifty pounds. You do. | Cordwainer Smith | ||
| 99e5ffa | You and I are animals, darling, not even real people, but people do not understand the teaching of Joan, that whatever seems human is human. | Cordwainer Smith | ||
| 084008e | You are Rod McBan the hundred and fifty-first. Specifically, you are a spinal column with a small bone box at one end, the head, and with reproductive equipment at the other end. Inside the bone box you have a small portion of material which resembles stiff, bloody lard. With that you think--you think better than I do, even though I have over five hundred million synaptic connections. You are a wonderful object, Rod McBan. I can understand .. | Cordwainer Smith | ||
| 9c38ed5 | Calling someone a bigot, or an idiot, or an asshole feels good, but it does not prove you right or that person wrong. | David McRaney | ||
| 5afb48c | the word enthusiasm is "the God within." | Wayne W. Dyer | ||
| 548e305 | The social Web is revolutionizing the way institutions operate, and the way people communicate, but in the end it might not have much of an effect on the core social group you depend on for true friendship. You can maintain a giant number of weak ties to people on Facebook, Twitter, and whatever comes next, much like you can in a giant company. Strong ties, however, require constant grooming. People who use the number of friends they have o.. | David McRaney | ||
| 690ad3f | Believing you understand your motivations and desires, your likes and dislikes, is called the introspection illusion. You believe you know yourself and why you are the way you are. You believe this knowledge tells you how you will act in all future situations. Research shows otherwise. | David McRaney | ||
| f6d290d | When you are making plans, your better angels point to the nourishing choices, but in the moment you go for what tastes good. | David McRaney | ||
| 7c615e4 | Indeed, later research backed up their claims, showing that people who are brutally honest with themselves are not as happy day to day as people with unrealistic assumptions about their abilities. People who take credit for the times when things go their way but who put the blame on others when they stumble or fall are generally happier people. | David McRaney | ||
| 0464496 | THE MISCONCEPTION: | David McRaney | ||
| 3abd351 | If you see yourself as the kind of person who owns Apple computers, or who drives hybrids, or who smokes Camels, you've been branded. And once a person is branded, that person will defend the brand by finding flaws in the alternative choice and pointing out benefits in his or her own. | David McRaney | ||
| 63aa254 | those who believe failure is not an option never plan for it. | David McRaney | ||
| aff91ec | The research into cultural cognition is new, but these studies suggest that Western culture is less concerned with context and more concerned with the center of attention, which means it is possible Westerners are more susceptible to both change blindness and inattentional blindness. | David McRaney |