In Kant’s description, ethical duty functions like a foreign traumatic intruder that from the outside disturbs the subject’s homeostatic balance, its unbearable pressure forcing the subject to act bey...
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,...
Paganism is the ultimate Christian dream.
Recall Marx’s fundamental insight about the bourgeois limitation of the logic of equality: capitalist inequalities (exploitation) are not the unprincipled violations of the principle of equality, but...
Ideology is strong exactly because it is no longer experienced as ideology… we feel free because we lack the very language to articulate our unfreedom.
What if the Soviet intervention was a blessing in disguise? It saved the myth that if the Soviets were not to intervene, there would have been some flowering authentic democratic socialism and so on....
I - and I still consider myself, I'm sorry to tell you, a Marxist and a Communist, but I couldn't help noticing how all the best Marxist analyses are always analyses of a failure.
[O]ne cannot separate violence from the very exist ence of the state (as the apparatus of class domination): from the standpoint of the'subordinated and oppressed, the very existence of a state is a...
Reality is for those who cannot face their dream.
Es aquí donde empieza la verdadera tolerancia - la tolerancia de lo que experimentamos como «imposible de soportar» (l'impossible-à-supporter) (Lacan) y en este nivel la corrección política de la izqu...
We don't really want to get what we think that we want.I am married to a wife and relationship with her are cold and I have a mistress. And all the time I dream oh my god if my wife were to disappear...
We do not get to vote on who owns what, or on relations in factory and so on, for all this is deemed beyond the sphere of the political, and it is illusory to expect that one can actually change thing...
Es aquí donde el diagnóstico de Yeats es insuficiente para la situación presente: la intensidad apasionada de los terroristas atestigua una falta de verdadera convicción. ¿Qué nivel de fragilidad debe...
…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...
In short, the ultimate source of Evil is compasion itself
What one should add here is that self-consciousness is itself unconscious: we are not aware of the point of our self-consciousness. If ever there was a critic of the fetishizing effect of fascinating...
Beyond the fiction of reality, there is the reality of the fiction.
. . 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.
The only choice is that between direct or indirect relations of domination and exploitation, with any alternative dismissed as utopian.
El proletariado queda dividido en tres partes, cada una de ellas opuesta a las otras: los trabajadores intelectuales, llenos de prejuicios culturales contra los trabajadores poco cultivados; los obrer...