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

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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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nomenklatura

the most dangerous place to be at the time of the terrible 1930s purges in the Soviet Union was at the top of the nomenklatura

—p.134 Prognosis (90) by Slavoj Žižek
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eschatology

rejection of the eschatological notion of the Future which Marxism inherited from the Christian tradition

—p.128 Prognosis (90) by Slavoj Žižek
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