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a Lacanian term (following the linguistics of Saussure); really just another signifier (i.e., something that organises discursive structures) but one which stops the slippage of the signified under the signifier and fixes meaning, thereby forming a stable symbolic order. i don't really know tbh. a platonic ideal of a concept like "freedom" or "health"?

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A basic feature of our postmodern world is that it tries to dispense with this agency of the ordering Master- Signifier: the complexity of the world needs to be as­ serted unconditionally. Every Master-Signifier meant to impose some order on it must be deconstructed, dis­ persed

—p.30 Adagio ma non troppo e molto espressivo: (8) by Slavoj Žižek
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A basic feature of our postmodern world is that it tries to dispense with this agency of the ordering Master- Signifier: the complexity of the world needs to be as­ serted unconditionally. Every Master-Signifier meant to impose some order on it must be deconstructed, dis­ persed

—p.30 Adagio ma non troppo e molto espressivo: (8) by Slavoj Žižek
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ethical component of the personality and provides the moral standards by which the ego operates (acc to Sigmund Freud)

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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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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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a Medieval Latin phrase meaning "the necessary changes having been made" or "once the necessary changes have been made"

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Mutatis mutandis, the same holds for violence.

—p.31 Adagio ma non troppo e molto espressivo: (8) by Slavoj Žižek
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Mutatis mutandis, the same holds for violence.

—p.31 Adagio ma non troppo e molto espressivo: (8) by Slavoj Žižek
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biopolitics: a term defined by Foucault (though not first) as the style of government that regulates populations through "biopower" (the application and impact of political power on all aspects of human life)

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'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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'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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reminiscent of the works of George Gordon Byron, typified by gloomy Romantic themes and passionate, arrogant and self-destructive heroes

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

—p.40 Allegro moderato – Adagio: (34) by Slavoj Žižek
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these figures were not personifications of sublime Byronesque demonic evil: the gap between their intimate experience and the horror of their acts was immense

—p.40 Allegro moderato – Adagio: (34) by Slavoj Žižek
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(noun) a eulogistic oration or writing / (noun) formal or elaborate praise

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

—p.41 Allegro moderato – Adagio: (34) by Slavoj Žižek
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the official reports from the show trials, the attacks on enemies, the official panegyrics to Stalin and other leaders

—p.41 Allegro moderato – Adagio: (34) 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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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.

—p.41 Allegro moderato – Adagio: (34) by Slavoj Žižek
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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.

—p.41 Allegro moderato – Adagio: (34) by Slavoj Žižek
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1925–1995: French philosopher (has influenced literary theory, post-structuralism and postmodernism)

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

—p.42 Allegro moderato – Adagio: (34) by Slavoj Žižek
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a more Deleuzian notion of a contingent series intersecting and generating totally disparate meanings

—p.42 Allegro moderato – Adagio: (34) by Slavoj Žižek
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(adjective) of the same substance

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What if such an exclusion of some form of otherness from the scope of our ethical concerns is consubstantial with the very founding gesture of ethical universality

—p.46 Allegro moderato – Adagio: (34) by Slavoj Žižek
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What if such an exclusion of some form of otherness from the scope of our ethical concerns is consubstantial with the very founding gesture of ethical universality

—p.46 Allegro moderato – Adagio: (34) by Slavoj Žižek
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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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Why the need to decaffeinate the Other, to deprive him or her of their raw substance of jouissance?

—p.49 Allegro moderato – Adagio: (34) by Slavoj Žižek
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Why the need to decaffeinate the Other, to deprive him or her of their raw substance of jouissance?

—p.49 Allegro moderato – Adagio: (34) by Slavoj Žižek
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