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responsibility for the fate of divine creation

[...] We humans are left with no higher power watching over us, only the terrible burden of freedom and responsibility for the fate of divine creation, and thus for God himself.

—p.157 Violence Allegro: (151) by Slavoj Žižek
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anamorphic

The plane which hit the World Trade Center tower could literally be understood as the ultimate Hitchcockian blot, the anamorphic stain which denaturalised the idyllic New York landscape

—p.154 Allegro: (151) by Slavoj Žižek
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teleological

Is there a whole which can teleologically justify and thus redeem or sublate an event such as the Holocaust?

—p.153 Allegro: (151) by Slavoj Žižek
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the ground floor in the US vs Europe

[...] Perhaps, Nip/Tuck being an American series, this excess can be accounted for in the terms of the difference between Europe and the US. In Europe, the ground floor in a building is counted as 0, so that the floor above it is the first floor, while in the US, the first floor is at street level.…

—p.139 Molto adagio – Andante: (119) by Slavoj Žižek