by
Slavoj Žižek
nomenklatura
(en)
a category of people within the Soviet Union and other Eastern Bloc countries who held various key administrative positions in the bureaucracy running all spheres of those countries' activity
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dispensing with the non-Russian republics would have been to destroy much of the party nomenklatura
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7 years, 3 months ago
dispensing with the non-Russian republics would have been to destroy much of the party nomenklatura
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7 years, 3 months ago
Laffer curve
(en)
a theory developed by supply-side economist Arthur Laffer to show the relationship between tax rates and the amount of tax revenue collected by governments (a typically conservative theory that believes that too much taxation will depress business investment)
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the so-called 'Laffer curve', evoked by free-market advocates as a reason against excessive taxation
I first encountered this in an earlier book but I guess I didn't add it to Bookmarker. he defines it later on, and goes into what's wrong with the theory (i.e., proceeds of taxation creating conditions appropriate for business, plus taxation money itself being spent on private business)
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7 years, 3 months ago
the so-called 'Laffer curve', evoked by free-market advocates as a reason against excessive taxation
I first encountered this in an earlier book but I guess I didn't add it to Bookmarker. he defines it later on, and goes into what's wrong with the theory (i.e., proceeds of taxation creating conditions appropriate for business, plus taxation money itself being spent on private business)
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7 years, 3 months ago
neoliberalism
(en)
the postulate that markets are organised most effectively by private enterprise and that the private pursuit of accumulation will generate the most common good; accomplished by opening international markets and financial networks, and downsizing the welfare state
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As individuals become poorer through the shrinkage of their salaries and the removal of social provision, neoliberalism offers them compensation through debt and by the promotion of shareholding.
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7 years, 3 months ago
As individuals become poorer through the shrinkage of their salaries and the removal of social provision, neoliberalism offers them compensation through debt and by the promotion of shareholding.
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7 years, 3 months ago
superego
(en)
ethical component of the personality and provides the moral standards by which the ego operates (acc to Sigmund Freud)
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Superego is not an ethical agency proper, but a sadistic agent with bombards the subject with impossible demands, obscenely enjoying the subject's failure to comply with them.
on the EU and Greece lol
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7 years, 3 months ago
Superego is not an ethical agency proper, but a sadistic agent with bombards the subject with impossible demands, obscenely enjoying the subject's failure to comply with them.
on the EU and Greece lol
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7 years, 3 months ago
fulminate
(en)
(verb) to utter or send out with denunciation / (verb) to send forth censures or invectives / (verb) express vehement protest
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Just before the final pardon, Tito himself fulminates the proliferation of treasons that obliges him to proliferate acts of clemency
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7 years, 3 months ago
Just before the final pardon, Tito himself fulminates the proliferation of treasons that obliges him to proliferate acts of clemency
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7 years, 3 months ago
indelibly
(en)
in a way that cannot be removed or forgotten
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in fidelity to the Master, I follow him out of respect, while in repentance, what attached me to the Master is the infinite indelible guilt.
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7 years, 3 months ago
in fidelity to the Master, I follow him out of respect, while in repentance, what attached me to the Master is the infinite indelible guilt.
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7 years, 3 months ago
Hays code
(en)
aka Motion Picture Production Code; the set of industry moral guidelines that was applied to most US films from 1930 to 1968 (think profanity, drugs, sedition, miscegenation, etc)
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the first full-length zombie film made before the Hays Code, which prohibited direct references to brutal capitalist and the workers' struggle
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7 years, 3 months ago
the first full-length zombie film made before the Hays Code, which prohibited direct references to brutal capitalist and the workers' struggle
confirm
7 years, 3 months ago
invective
(en)
insulting, abusive, or highly critical language
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while I get small pleasure from invectives against my wife, the enjoyment that sustains me is generated by the indefinite postponement of really leaving my wife for my mistress.
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7 years, 3 months ago
while I get small pleasure from invectives against my wife, the enjoyment that sustains me is generated by the indefinite postponement of really leaving my wife for my mistress.
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7 years, 3 months ago
aegis
(en)
(noun, Greek mythology) protective mantle of Zeus given to Athena
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she can finally engage in sex under the aegis of the big Other of paternal authority
some movie
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7 years, 3 months ago
she can finally engage in sex under the aegis of the big Other of paternal authority
some movie
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7 years, 3 months ago
Paulinian
(en)
referring to the Pauli exclusion principle (the assertion that no two fermions can have the same quantum number)
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the Paulinian idea of passing from Law to love
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7 years, 3 months ago
the Paulinian idea of passing from Law to love
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7 years, 3 months ago