True love is precisely the opposite move of forsaking the promise of Eternity itself for an imperfect individual.
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...
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...
The root of these shifts in the meaning of big Other is that, in the subject’s relation to it, we are effectively dealing with a closed loop best rendered by Escher’s famous image of two hands drawing...
. . 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.
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...
We feel free because we lack the very language to articulate our unfreedom.
Surprised at seeing a horse-shoe above the door of Bohr’s country house, a fellow scientist exclaimed that he did not share the superstitious belief that horse-shoes kept evil spirits away, to which B...
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...
On 11 September 2001 the Twin Towers were hit. Twelve years earlier, on 9 November 1989, the Berlin Wall fell. That date heralded the happy 90’s, the Francis Fukuyama dream of the end of history –the...
Nobody takes democracy or justice seriously, we are all aware of theircorrupted nature, but we participate in them, we display our belief in
المتظاهرون ببساطة يدعون من هم في السلطة للنظر إلى أسفل، إلى الهاوية المفتوحة تحت أقدامهم
A truly radical change is self-relating: it changes the very coordinates by means of which we measure change. In other words, a true change sets its own standards: it can only be measured by criteria...
What about animals slaughtered for our consumption? who among us would be able to continue eating pork chops after visiting a factory farm in which pigs are half-blind and cannot even properly walk, b...
The modern atheist thinks he knows that God is dead; what he doesn’t know is that, unconsciously, he continues to believe in God. What characterizes modernity is no longer the standard figure of the b...
Even if we do not take things seriously, even if we keep an ironical distance, we are still doing them.
كيف نستطيع مأسسة صناعة القرار الجمعي فيما وراء إطار عمل النظام متعدد اﻷحزاب الديمقراطي؟ أو لنقل ذلك بشكل فظ: من يعلم ما ينبغي فعله اليوم؟ ﻻ توجد ذات تعرف، ﻻ في شكل المثقفين وﻻ الناس العاديين. هل هناك...
La libertad formal precede a la libertad real, creando las condiciones para esta última.
Why are so many problems today perceived as problems of intolerance, rather than as problems of inequality, exploitation, or injustice? Why is the proposed remedy tolerance, rather than emancipation,...