The Deleuzian philosopher Brian Massumi clearly formulated how today's capitalism has already overcome the logic of totalizing normality and adopts instead a logic of erratic excess: the more varied,...
The experience that we have of our lives from within, the story we tell ourselves about ourselves in order to account for what we are doing, is fundamentally a lie – the truth lies outside, in what we...
Ultimately,we hear things because we cannot see everything.
The only choice is that between direct or indirect relations of domination and exploitation, with any alternative dismissed as utopian.
Thus 2t Grams confronts us with the same interpretive dilemma as the one in The Wings of the Dove: is the suicidal sacrificial gesture a true ethical act or not? In contrast to Wings, the answer here...
[E]galitarian political 'extremism' or 'excessive radicalism' should always be read as a phenomenon of ideologico-political displacement: as an index of its opposite, of a limitation, of a refusal act...
The immigrants who secure rights thanks to the anti-racist anti-colonial struggle might be securing the right to free capitalist enterprise, refusing to see, refusing to ‘open your eyes’, as the angry...
Even if we do not take things seriously, even if we keep an ironical distance, we are still doing them.
In a speech to Harvard graduates in May 2017, Zuckerberg told his public: ‘Our job is to create a sense of purpose!’ This comes from a man who, with Facebook, has created the world’s most expansive in...
. . if we only change reality in order to realize our dreams, and do not change these dreams themselves, sooner or later we regress back to the old reality.
In short, the ultimate source of Evil is compasion itself
En este preciso sentido, la Revolución haitiana fue un «momento de definición en la historia del mundo»30. No se trata de estudiar la Revolución haitiana como una extensión del espíritu revolucionario...
Fundamentalist Islamic terror is not grounded in the terrorists’ conviction of their superiority and in their desire to safeguard their cultural-religious identity from the onslaught of global consume...
In contrast to the situation in 1945, the world does not need the US; it is the US that needs the rest of the world
A friend has to be outside my reach, beyond my grasp. And there can be no friendship with someone whom I am not ready to betray: a friend is someone I can betray with love.
ففي المجتمع الاستهلاكي الرأسمالي المتأخر، تكتسب الحياة الإجتماعية الواقعية ذاتها على نحو ما سمات زيف مُمسرح، فيه يتصرف جيراننا في الحياة الواقعية مثل ممثلي وكومبارس على خشبة المسرح.. مرة أخرى، نجد أن...
Nobody takes democracy or justice seriously, we are all aware of theircorrupted nature, but we participate in them, we display our belief in
…it is far too simplistic to claim that the specter of this self-engendering monster pursuing its ends regardless of any human or environmental concern is an ideological abstraction, and to insist tha...
Someone asked Herr Keuner if there is a God. Herr Keuner said: I advise you to think about how your behaviour would change with regard to the answer to this question. If it would not change, then we c...
Las librerías están desbordadas por manuales psicológicos que nos aconsejan sobre cómo tener éxito, cómo superar a nuestra pareja o a nuestro competidor; en resumen, que tratan el éxito como algo depe...
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