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Frankfurt School

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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jouissance

the stupid jouissance of rave music

on Gangnam Style

—p.9 Introduction (1) by Slavoj Žižek
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epignosis

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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you're a man now

There are old poops who will say that you do not become a grown-up until you have somehow survived, as they have, some famous calamity--the Great Depression, the Second World War, Vietnam, whatever. Storytellers are responsible for this destructive, not to say suicidal, myth. Again and again in sto…

—p.131 A Man Without a Country by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
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a Chicago paper called In These Times

So I am a man without a country, except for the librarians and a Chicago paper called In These Times.

—p.87 by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.