by
Slavoj Žižek
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Introduction
Divided we stand!
Divided we stand!
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terms
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notes
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[...] Cynical conformism tells us that emancipatory ideals of more equality, democracy and solidarity are boring and even dangerous, leading to a grey, overregulated society, and that our true and only paradise is the existing 'corrupted' capitalist universe. Radical emancipatory engagement starts from the premise that it is the capitalist dynamics which are boring, offering more of the same in the guise of constant change, and that the struggle for emancipation is still the most daring of all ventures. Our goal is to argue for this second option.
[...] Cynical conformism tells us that emancipatory ideals of more equality, democracy and solidarity are boring and even dangerous, leading to a grey, overregulated society, and that our true and only paradise is the existing 'corrupted' capitalist universe. Radical emancipatory engagement starts from the premise that it is the capitalist dynamics which are boring, offering more of the same in the guise of constant change, and that the struggle for emancipation is still the most daring of all ventures. Our goal is to argue for this second option.
epignosis
(en)
precise and correct knowledge; used in the New Testament to refer to the knowledge of things ethical and divine
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We shall conclude with epignosis (a theological term that designates knowledge which is believed, engaging us in our acts, subjectively assumed)
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We shall conclude with epignosis (a theological term that designates knowledge which is believed, engaging us in our acts, subjectively assumed)
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7 years, 2 months ago
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[...] one of the main dangers of capitalism: although it is global and encompasses the whole world, it sustains a stricto sensu worldless ideological constellation, depriving the large majority of people of any meaningful cognitive mapping. Capitalism is the first socio-economic order which de-totalizes meaning: it is not global at the level of meaning. There is, after all, no global 'capitalist world view', no 'capitalist civilization' proper: the fundamental lesson of globalization is precisely that capitalism can accommodate itself to all civilizations, from Christian to Hindu or Buddhist, from West to East. Capitalism's global dimension can only be formulated at the level of truth-without-meaning, as the Real of the global market mechanism.
only after I typed all this out did I realise that this motherfucker had almost the exact same paragraph in note 1088 T_T
[...] one of the main dangers of capitalism: although it is global and encompasses the whole world, it sustains a stricto sensu worldless ideological constellation, depriving the large majority of people of any meaningful cognitive mapping. Capitalism is the first socio-economic order which de-totalizes meaning: it is not global at the level of meaning. There is, after all, no global 'capitalist world view', no 'capitalist civilization' proper: the fundamental lesson of globalization is precisely that capitalism can accommodate itself to all civilizations, from Christian to Hindu or Buddhist, from West to East. Capitalism's global dimension can only be formulated at the level of truth-without-meaning, as the Real of the global market mechanism.
only after I typed all this out did I realise that this motherfucker had almost the exact same paragraph in note 1088 T_T
jouissance
(fr)
physical or intellectual pleasure, delight, or ecstasy; the concept featured heavily in the psychoanalysis of Jacques Lacan's and was expanded on by Roland Barthes for literary theory, to contrast with mere "pleasure" derived from reading texts that don't challenge the reader as a subject. can also refer to pleasure that devolves into pain
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the stupid jouissance of rave music
on Gangnam Style
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the stupid jouissance of rave music
on Gangnam Style
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7 years, 2 months ago
Frankfurt School
(en)
a school of social theory and philosophy associated in part with the Institute for Social Research at the Goethe University Frankfurt; consisted of dissidents who felt at home neither in the existent capitalist, fascist, nor communist systems that had formed at the time
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one would get a standard--not even traditional Marxist, but more specifically Western Marxist Frankfurt-School-style--critique of consumerism
on North Korean propaganda
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7 years, 2 months ago
one would get a standard--not even traditional Marxist, but more specifically Western Marxist Frankfurt-School-style--critique of consumerism
on North Korean propaganda
notable
7 years, 2 months ago