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the dark side of globalisation

[...] This fact confronts us with another, less attractive, aspect of globalisation: the ‘global information village’ is the condition of the fact that something which appeared in an obscure daily in Denmark caused a violent stir in distant Muslim countries. It is as if Denmark and Syria, Pakistan,…

—p.50 Violence Allegro moderato – Adagio: (34) by Slavoj Žižek
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jouissance

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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consubstantial

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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so tragically sublime

Those Western leftists who heroically defied anti-communist hysteria in their own countries and did so with the utmost sincerity provide other instances of the tragic produced by the Cold War. They were prepared to go to prison for their communist convictions and in defence of the Soviet Union. Isn…

—p.44 Allegro moderato – Adagio: (34) by Slavoj Žižek
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Gilles Deleuze

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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