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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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enervating

What is so enervating about Varoufakis is not his radicality but his rational pragmatic modesty--no wonder that many radical members of Syriza accused him of capitulating to the EU.

I am never going to remember which meaning this word has am I

—p.237 Afterword to the paperback edition (215) by Slavoj Žižek
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prosopopoeia

ideological prosopopoeia has its heyday: markets start to talk as living entities, expressing their 'worry' at what will happen if the elections fail to produce a government with a mandate to continue with the programme of fiscal austerity and structural reform

forgot the meaning but what a great word

—p.234 Afterword to the paperback edition (215) by Slavoj Žižek
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stagflation

The late 1960s and the early 1970s were not just the times of oil crisis and stagflation

He goes through the whole US hegemony story in about a page (cites Yanis Varoufakis too)

—p.226 Afterword to the paperback edition (215) by Slavoj Žižek
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passage à l'acte

it was an impotent passage à l'acte, an acting out which bore witness to the failure to get rid of the past

on the CCR destroying old monuments

—p.208 Appendix (192) by Slavoj Žižek
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agape

the 'hatred' enjoined by Christ is not a kind of pseudo-dialectical opposite to love, but a direct expression of agape

defined as 'unconditional love' earlier

—p.199 Appendix (192) by Slavoj Žižek
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