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.
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?
A critical analysis of the present global constellation-one which offers no clear solution, no practical advice on what to do, and provides no light at the end of the tunnel, since one is well aware t...
The proper way for the woman to test the man’s love is thus to betray him at a crucial moment in his career
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...
Our biological body itself is a form of hardware that needs re-programming through tantra like a new spiritual software which can release or unblock its potential.
One does not wait for the ripe objective circumstances to make a revolution, circumstances become ripe through the political struggle itself.
La carta llega a su destino cuando ya no somos los ‘ocupantes’ de los lugares vacíos de la estructura fantasmática de otro, esto es, cuando el otro finalmente ‘abre sus ojos’ y compren- de que la cart...
It is the ultimate irony of history that radical individualism serves as the ideological justification of the unconstrained power of what the large majority of individuals experience as a vast anonymo...
In short, one who loves the illusion of the good is eventually won over to actually loving the good. But how can love of the illusion of the good lead to love of the good itself? If one loves the illu...
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...
Does everything that exists have to be grounded in sufficient reasons? Or are there things that somehow happen out of nowhere?
Another blatant case of regress as part of the capitalist progress is the enormous rise of precarious work. Precarious work deprives workers of a whole series of rights that, till recently, were taken...
A dispassionate conceptual development of the typology of violence must by definition ignore its traumatic impact. Yet there is a sense in which a cold analysis of violence somehow reproduces and part...
Witness the surprise of the average American: 'How is it possible that these people display and practise such a disregard for their own lives?' Is not the obverse of this surprise the rather sad fact...
[L]iberals insist that children should be given the right to remain part of their particular community, but on condition that they are given a choice. But for, say, Amish children to really have a fre...
When the subject goes behind the curtain of appearance to search for the hidden essence, he thinks he will discover something that was always there; he does not realize that in passing behind the curt...
The performative dimension at work here consists of the symbolic efficiency of the mask: wearing a mask actually makes us what we feign to be. In other words, the conclusion to be drawn from this dial...
The limitation of the standard liberal attitude towards Muslim women wearing a veil is visible here, too. Women are permitted to wear the veil if this is their free choice and not an option imposed on...