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This is a personal project by @dellsystem. I built this to help me retain information from the books I'm reading.

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intifada

the black-and-white film about the French suburban intifada, portraying senseless juvenile violence, police brutality and social exclusion in the Paris suburbs

—p.188 Notes (184) by Slavoj Žižek
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diegetic

Within the diegetic space of Sherlock Holmes stories

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—p.186 Notes (184) by Slavoj Žižek
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radical-emancipatory politics and impotent violence

[...] to put it in the Nietzschean terms which are appropriate here, the ultimate difference between radical-emancipatory politics and such outbursts of impotent violence is that an authentic political gesture is active, it imposes, enforces a vision, while outbursts of impotent violence are fundam…

—p.179 Epilogue: (174) by Slavoj Žižek
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immanence

a catastrophe which is a ‘suicide’ (the result of immanent antagonisms) appears as the work of a criminal agent – Jews, traitors or reactionaries.

—p.179 Epilogue: (174) by Slavoj Žižek
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