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superego-individualization

A series of situations that characterize today's society perfectly exemplify this type of superego-individualization: ecology, political correctness and poverty [...] The ideological stakes of such individualization are easily discernible: I get lost in my own self-examination instead of raising mu…

—p.87 Cardiognosis (51) by Slavoj Žižek
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Peter Buffett on philanthropic colonialism

[...] Peter Buffett (Warren's son) recently published a New York Times op-ed in which he explained Philanthropic Colonialism:

Inside any important philanthropy meeting, you witness heads of state meeting with investment managers and corporate leaders. All are searching for answers with their…

—p.48 Diagnosis (17) by Slavoj Žižek
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debt as a means of control archive/so478

[...] Today's global capitalism brings the relationship of debtor/creditor to its extreme and simultaneously undermines it: debt becomes an openly ridiculous excess. We thus enter the domain of obscenity: when a credit is accorded, the debtor is not even expected to return it--debt is directly trea…

—p.45 Diagnosis (17) by Slavoj Žižek