Bookmarker is a personal project by @dellsystem to help with retaining reading material. Source on GitHub.

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trenchant

It is difficult to imagine a more trenchant political example of the weight of Lacan's distinction between the 'subject of the enunciated' and the 'subject of the enunciation'

—p.173 Epignosis (143) by Slavoj Žižek
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jouissance

there is no place for the Real of jouissance in Heidegger's edifice

—p.172 Epignosis (143) by Slavoj Žižek
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subaltern

Post-colonial 'subaltern' theorists, who detect in the persistence of pre-modern traditions the resistance to global capitalism and its violent modernization, are here thoroughly wrong

—p.170 Epignosis (143) by Slavoj Žižek
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bulwark

small Slavic nations were all looking towards Russia, the bulwark of reaction, for their liberation

not really sure what it means in this context

—p.165 Epignosis (143) by Slavoj Žižek
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