A little poison now and then: that makes for pleasant dreams. And much poison at the end, for a pleasant death.
You could say, in a vulgar Freudian way, that I am the unhappy child who escapes into books. Even as a child, I was most happy being alone. This has not changed.
In contrast to modern art, which causes displeasure-modern art, by definition, hurts. In this precise sense, modern art is sublime: it causes pleasure-in-pain, it produces its effect through its own f...
Are, however, the terrorist fundamentalists, be they Christian or Muslim, really fundamentalists in the authentic sense of the term? Do they really believe? What they lack is a feature that is easy to...
أول درس يجب تعلمه هو عدم لوم الأفراد ومواقفهم، المشكلة ليست فساد الفرد وجشعه، ولكن النظام الذي يشجعه على الفساد. الحل ليس شعار في الشوارع الرئيسية وليس وول ستريت، ولكن في تغيير النظام الذي يجعل الشوار...
Dangerous situation and we don’t have any clear ethical guidance here. And did you notice, when you talk about the possible and the impossible, how strangely this is distributed? On the one hand, in t...
But what about the apparent absurdity of the idea of dignity, freedom, and reason, sustained by extreme military discipline, including of the practice of discarding weak children? This absurdity is si...
For example, tolerance designates a real problem—when I criticize it, I am, as a rule, asked: But how can you be in favor of intolerance towards foreigners, of misogyny, of homophobia? Therein resides...
What is true thinking? Thinking is not solving problems. The first step in thinking is to ask these sorts of questions: Is this really a problem? Is this the right way to formulate the problem? How di...
What this means is that we should reject not only all manifestations of ‘alternative modernity’ (which amount to a ‘capitalism without capitalism’, without its destructive aspect), but also all attemp...
For Lacan, language is a gift as dangerous to humanity as the horse was to the Trojans: it offers itself to our use free of charge, but once we accept it, it colonizes us.
By what right can we call this a system of corrections? Is it not, rather, the rubric for a slavishly obedient, oppressed, and humiliated existence?
لقد خلق المتظاهرون فراغا – فراغا في حق الأيدولوجيا المهيمنة، وهناك حاجة إلى الوقت لملء مساحة هذه الموضة الإيجابية. هذا هو سبب أننا لسنا بحاجة لأن نقلق كثيرا من الهجمات الموجهة لـ احتلوا وول ستريت، فان...
When Zeno the Cynic was confronted with Eleatic proofs of the non-existence of movement, he simply raised and moved his middle finger, or so the story goes …
WHEN THE TURKISH COMMUNIST WRITER Panait Istrati visited the Soviet Union in the mid-1930s, the time of the big purges and show trials, a Soviet apologist trying to convince him about the need for vio...
Postmodern politics definitely has the great merit that it 'repoliticizes' a series of domains previously considered 'apolitical' or 'private'; the fact remains, however, that it does not in fact repo...
Populism is ultimately always sustained by the frustrated exasperation of ordinary people, by the cry I don’t know what is going on, but I’ve just had enough of it! It cannot go on! It must stop! Such...
First —we should restrain our anti-colonialist joy here— the question to be raised is: if Europe is in gradual decay, what is replacing its hegemony? The answer is: 'capitalism with Asian values' (whi...
Every civilisation that disavows its barbarian potential has already capitulated to barbarism.
En resumen, Las edades del mundo, de Schelling, debe leerse como una obra metapsicológica en el sentido estrictamente freudiano de la palabra.