February 2012
12 posts
“the standard bourgeois story devised by Locke and Smith was that: “long,...”
– a companion to Marx’s Capital by David Harvey
“The current ‘crisis’ is in fact the failure of the capitalist utopia...”
– Jacques Ranciere
“The facts of the crisis of neo-liberalism, the cultures of individualism, the...”
– antonio negri
“Today, the ruling ideology endeavours to make us accept the...”
– zizek, only communism can save liberal democracy
“Today’s great question is not the critique of capitalism, on which more or...”
– badiou & zizek, philosophy in the present
“As Marx and Engels themselves observed in The Communist Manifesto,...”
– mark fisher, capitalist realism
“In the past, Stalin earned the epithet of The Engineer of Human Souls on the...”
– David Healy, Mania a short history of bipolar disorder
“The current ruling ontology denies any possibility of a social causation of...”
– mark fisher, capitalist realism 2009
“The consequence of being hooked into the entertainment matrix is twitchy,...”
– mark fisher, capitalism realism 2009
January 2012
10 posts
“The more I want to be me, the more I feel an emptiness. The more I express...”
– The Coming Insurrection
“Couldn’t the entire history of humanity be seen as a growing normalization...”
– zizek
“The image of the blissful unification of society through consumption suspends...”
– Guy Debord, The Society of the Spectacle
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“The evaluative procedure that qualifies some workers to receive a surplus wage...”
– the revolt of the salaried bourgeoisie, zizek
Watchthe perfect utilitarians are animals…
“The conclusion to be drawn is thus that the problematic of multiculturalism -...”
– the universal exception, zizek 2006 p.173
December 2011
2 posts
“Where did this entire financial phantasmagoria come from? Quite simply from the...”
– Alain Badiou, The Communist Hypothesis p.97
“What unites us is that, in contrast to the classic image of proletarians who...”
– Žižek, Slavoj. “How to begin: from the beginning.” in: New Left Review. No. 57, p. 43-55, May/June 2009. (English) via http://vanishingmediator.blogspot.com/
November 2011
11 posts
1 tag
“4. Why do you think people are unable to transcend ideology and effect change?
...”
– six questions for Zizek by Nicole Jones (Harper’s magazine)
“While they fight subjective violence, liberal communists are the very agents of...”
– Zizek, Violence p. 36
“Innermost beliefs are all “out there,” embodied in practices which...”
– Zizek, Violence p.166
“*the problem is that the purity of a love that a women demands will not find an...”
– Darian Leader
“The question of how to live our lives is a fundamental question for us, and it...”
– Steven Z. Levine
“*What are you thinking? is intrusive.
*Understanding wants more: it is...”
– Darian Leader, Why women keep letters in clothes
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October 2011
30 posts
“Here, Marx’s key insight remains as pertinent today as it ever was: the question...”
– zizek
“The mother does not mirror the child to itself; she grants an image to the...”
– jacqueline rose
“The final moment when Leonardo DiCaprio character is dying and freezing then...”
– zizek on charlie rose
“Hysteria is also the way the subject deals with the impossibility of sexual...”
– Salecl, Renata
“The difference between the authentic fundamentalists and the perverted Moral...”
– zizek
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“The problem is not corruption or greed, the problem is the system that pushes...”
– zizek
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WatchMichael Moore on Democray Now! Oct.24.2011
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“One thing is clear, those who got us into this crisis at least here it’s...”
– zizek
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“The oppressors (our common enemies) are no longer unchallenged — or more no...”
– mike ely
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Watchcommunism a new beginning 10.16.11
Watchzizek signing my copy of “did somebody say totalitarianism”