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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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superego-individualization

A series of situations that characterize today's society perfectly exemplify this type of superego-individualization: ecology, political correctness and poverty [...] The ideological stakes of such individualization are easily discernible: I get lost in my own self-examination instead of raising mu…

—p.87 Trouble in Paradise: From the End of History to the End of Capitalism Cardiognosis (51) by Slavoj Žižek
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Peter Buffett on philanthropic colonialism

[...] Peter Buffett (Warren's son) recently published a New York Times op-ed in which he explained Philanthropic Colonialism:

Inside any important philanthropy meeting, you witness heads of state meeting with investment managers and corporate leaders. All are searching for answers with their…

—p.48 Diagnosis (17) by Slavoj Žižek
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debt as a means of control archive/so478

[...] Today's global capitalism brings the relationship of debtor/creditor to its extreme and simultaneously undermines it: debt becomes an openly ridiculous excess. We thus enter the domain of obscenity: when a credit is accorded, the debtor is not even expected to return it--debt is directly trea…

—p.45 Diagnosis (17) by Slavoj Žižek
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everyone is a capitalist

In this way, the ultimate triumph of capitalism comes about when each worker becomes his or her own capitalist, the 'entrepreneur-of-the-self' who decides how much to invest in his or her own future (education, health and so forth), paying for these investments by becoming indebted. What were forma…

—p.45 Diagnosis (17) by Slavoj Žižek