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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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jouissance

Why the need to decaffeinate the Other, to deprive him or her of their raw substance of jouissance?

—p.49 Allegro moderato – Adagio: (34) by Slavoj Žižek
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consubstantial

What if such an exclusion of some form of otherness from the scope of our ethical concerns is consubstantial with the very founding gesture of ethical universality

—p.46 Allegro moderato – Adagio: (34) by Slavoj Žižek
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so tragically sublime

Those Western leftists who heroically defied anti-communist hysteria in their own countries and did so with the utmost sincerity provide other instances of the tragic produced by the Cold War. They were prepared to go to prison for their communist convictions and in defence of the Soviet Union. Isn…

—p.44 Allegro moderato – Adagio: (34) by Slavoj Žižek
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Gilles Deleuze

a more Deleuzian notion of a contingent series intersecting and generating totally disparate meanings

—p.42 Allegro moderato – Adagio: (34) by Slavoj Žižek
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panegyric

the official reports from the show trials, the attacks on enemies, the official panegyrics to Stalin and other leaders

—p.41 Allegro moderato – Adagio: (34) by Slavoj Žižek
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