On the information sheet in a New York hotel, I recently read: 'Dear guest! To guarantee that you will fully enjoy your stay with us, this hotel is totally smoke-free. For any infringement of this reg...
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...
بزوغ حركة تظاهر دولية بدون برنامج متماسك هي بالتالي ليست مصادفة، إنها تعكس أزمة أعمق، أزمة بدون حل واضح. الديمقراطية مؤسسة على حكم القانون. الديمقراطية تعمل فحسب داخل حدود واضحة وبين أناس يشعرون بأنفس...
Are, in a certain way, continuously voting with our money. Deeper existential thinkers like to deploy variations on the theme of the authentic existential choice, where the very core of our being is a...
[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...
William Butler Yeats’s Second Coming seems perfectly to render our present predicament: The best lack all conviction, while the worst / Are full of passionate intensity. This is an excellent descripti...
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...
Se no passado fingimos publicamente acreditar enquanto permanecíamos céticos na vida privada, ou ainda envolvidos na troça obscena de nossas crenças públicas, hoje tendemos publicamente a professar no...
It is more satisfying to sacrifice oneself for the poor victim than to enable the other to overcome their victim status and perhaps become even more succesfull than ourselves
IN AN OLD YUGOSLAV JOKE mocking police corruption, a policeman returns home unexpectedly and finds his wife naked in their marital bed, obviously hot and excited. Suspecting that he surprised her with...
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...
هل المتظاهرون عنيفون؟ حقيقي أن لغتهم ربما تبدو محاربة احتلوا! وهكذا.. ولكنهم عنيفون فقط بطريقة المهاتما غاندي نفسها، إنهم عنيفون بالقدر الذي يريدون فيه أن يضعوا عائقا في الطريق الذي تمضي عليه اﻷشياء.
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...
As in Heinrich Heine’s (a contemporary of Kierkegaard’s) well-known saying that one should value above everything else ‘freedom, equality and crab soup’. ‘Crab soup’ stands here for all the small plea...
There is a multitude of forms of this appearing of un-freedom in the guise of its opposite: in being deprived of universal healthcare, we are told that we are being given a new freedom of choice (to c...
The last statement reveals more than may appear at first glance: it indicates that Greenspan's mistake was to expect that the lending institutions' enlightened self-interest would make them act more r...
Debemos abandonar inexorablemente el juicio preconcebido de que el tiempo lineal de la evolución está «de nuestro lado», de que la historia «trabaja a nuestro favor»,
Las formas de riqueza son cada vez más «desproporcionadas en relación con el tiempo directo de trabajo empleado en su producción»,
Capitalism is for Karatani not a ‘pure’ reign of B, but a triad (or, rather, a Borromean knot) of nation–state–capital: nation as the form of communal solidarity, state as the form of direct dominatio...
What makes Berlusconi so interesting as a political phenomenon is the fact that he, as the most powerful politician in his country, acts more and more shamelessly: he not only ignores or neutralizes a...