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precise and correct knowledge; used in the New Testament to refer to the knowledge of things ethical and divine

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We shall conclude with epignosis (a theological term that designates knowledge which is believed, engaging us in our acts, subjectively assumed)

—p.4 Introduction (1) by Slavoj Žižek
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We shall conclude with epignosis (a theological term that designates knowledge which is believed, engaging us in our acts, subjectively assumed)

—p.4 Introduction (1) by Slavoj Žižek
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7 years, 2 months ago

physical or intellectual pleasure, delight, or ecstasy; the concept featured heavily in the psychoanalysis of Jacques Lacan's and was expanded on by Roland Barthes for literary theory, to contrast with mere "pleasure" derived from reading texts that don't challenge the reader as a subject. can also refer to pleasure that devolves into pain

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the stupid jouissance of rave music

on Gangnam Style

—p.9 Introduction (1) by Slavoj Žižek
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the stupid jouissance of rave music

on Gangnam Style

—p.9 Introduction (1) by Slavoj Žižek
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a school of social theory and philosophy associated in part with the Institute for Social Research at the Goethe University Frankfurt; consisted of dissidents who felt at home neither in the existent capitalist, fascist, nor communist systems that had formed at the time

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one would get a standard--not even traditional Marxist, but more specifically Western Marxist Frankfurt-School-style--critique of consumerism

on North Korean propaganda

—p.12 Introduction (1) by Slavoj Žižek
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7 years, 2 months ago

one would get a standard--not even traditional Marxist, but more specifically Western Marxist Frankfurt-School-style--critique of consumerism

on North Korean propaganda

—p.12 Introduction (1) by Slavoj Žižek
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7 years, 2 months ago

(verb) to promote the growth or development of; rouse incite

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we should do the same with the progress of global capitalism today: keep in mind its dark underside, which is fomenting revolts

—p.19 Diagnosis (17) by Slavoj Žižek
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we should do the same with the progress of global capitalism today: keep in mind its dark underside, which is fomenting revolts

—p.19 Diagnosis (17) by Slavoj Žižek
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philosophical and metaphysical theories of divine presence in which the divine encompasses or is manifested in the material world

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the world market is, with regard to its immanent dynamics, 'a space in which everyone has once been a productive labourer, and in which labour has everywhere begun to price itself out of the system'

on higher productivity resulting in more unemployment, which should be a blessing but is instead a curse (drift?)

he uses this word about a million times later on

—p.21 Diagnosis (17) by Slavoj Žižek
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7 years, 2 months ago

the world market is, with regard to its immanent dynamics, 'a space in which everyone has once been a productive labourer, and in which labour has everywhere begun to price itself out of the system'

on higher productivity resulting in more unemployment, which should be a blessing but is instead a curse (drift?)

he uses this word about a million times later on

—p.21 Diagnosis (17) by Slavoj Žižek
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7 years, 2 months ago

the study of signs and symbols and their use or interpretation (adj: semiotic)

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the semiotic square proposed by Jameson

workers/temporarily unemployed/permanently unemployable/formerly employed

—p.22 Diagnosis (17) by Slavoj Žižek
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the semiotic square proposed by Jameson

workers/temporarily unemployed/permanently unemployable/formerly employed

—p.22 Diagnosis (17) by Slavoj Žižek
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a discourse between two or more people holding different points of view about a subject but wishing to establish the truth through reasoned arguments

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in a properly dialectical twist, exploitation includes its own negation

those who produce AND those who are excluded from producing are all exploited

—p.23 Diagnosis (17) by Slavoj Žižek
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in a properly dialectical twist, exploitation includes its own negation

those who produce AND those who are excluded from producing are all exploited

—p.23 Diagnosis (17) by Slavoj Žižek
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referring to Frankfurt School sociologist and philosopher Jürgen Habermas, best known for his theories on communicative rationality and the public sphere

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Recall Habermas's notion of distorted communication (distorted because of extra-linguistic power relations of oppression and domination)

—p.27 Diagnosis (17) by Slavoj Žižek
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Recall Habermas's notion of distorted communication (distorted because of extra-linguistic power relations of oppression and domination)

—p.27 Diagnosis (17) by Slavoj Žižek
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(noun) a vote by which the people of an entire country or district express an opinion for or against a proposal especially on a choice of government or ruler

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Hans Tietmeyer, then government of the Deutsches Bundesbank, who praised national governments for preferring 'the permanent plebiscite of global markets' to the 'plebiscite of the ballot box'

—p.35 Diagnosis (17) by Slavoj Žižek
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Hans Tietmeyer, then government of the Deutsches Bundesbank, who praised national governments for preferring 'the permanent plebiscite of global markets' to the 'plebiscite of the ballot box'

—p.35 Diagnosis (17) by Slavoj Žižek
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by that very act or quality; thereby

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since meeting these financial dictates/expectations is the condition of maintaining the constitutional order, they have priority over the constitution (and eo ipso state sovereignty)

—p.37 Diagnosis (17) by Slavoj Žižek
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since meeting these financial dictates/expectations is the condition of maintaining the constitutional order, they have priority over the constitution (and eo ipso state sovereignty)

—p.37 Diagnosis (17) by Slavoj Žižek
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7 years, 2 months ago