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

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

To put it in Habermasian terms, they are involved in a pragmatic contradiction, since they violate the ethical norms which sustain their own speech community.

these figures were not personifications of sublime Byronesque demonic evil: the gap between their intimate experience and the horror of their acts was immense

'bio-politics' designates the regulation of the security and welfare of human lives as its primary goal