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biopolitics

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

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

Mutatis mutandis, the same holds for violence.

—p.31 Adagio ma non troppo e molto espressivo: (8) by Slavoj Žižek
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superego

Houellebecq depicts the morning-after of the Sexual Revolution, the sterility of a universe dominated by the superego injunction to enjoy.

—p.30 Adagio ma non troppo e molto espressivo: (8) by Slavoj Žižek
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atonal

Alain Badiou develops the notion of ‘atonal’ worlds – monde atone – which lack the intervention of a Master-Signifier to impose meaningful order onto the confused multiplicity of reality.

—p.29 Adagio ma non troppo e molto espressivo: (8) by Slavoj Žižek
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teleological

The use of the expression usually reserved for homosexuals (masturbation ‘brings selflove out of the closet’) hints at a kind of implicit teleology of the gradual exclusion of all otherness: first, in homosexuality, the other sex is excluded (one does it with another person of the same sex).

thank you Slavoj Zizek for explaining what homosexuality is

—p.28 Adagio ma non troppo e molto espressivo: (8) by Slavoj Žižek
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