“no point in waiting for the right moment when a smooth change might be possible …One has to take the risk & intervene… Only…this can…change the situation… The..universe of manipulation can all of a sudden crumble & undo itself.” #LikeAThiefInBroadDaylight #SlavojZizek

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“Music is the substance which renders the true heart of the subject,…the “Night of the World”” - “With the shift away from the Enlightenment subject of rational logos” music is this “abyss of radical negativity,” says Zizek

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In love the gaze of the Other remains even if the Other ceased to exist” & “sees in me more than myself

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gigantic inputs of money fail to generate production since they mostly disappear in the operations of fictitious capital. This is why one should reject the standard liberal Hayekian interpretation of exploding debt (the costs of supplying a welfare state)

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should we continue to play the humanitarian game of taking care of those left behind, or should we tackle the much more difficult task of changing the global system that generates them? Without such a change, our situation will be increasingly irrational

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https://t.co/rxQpMFvTIA we have to be pushed from outside, since our “natural state” is one of inert hedonism; of…“human animal.” …The more we live as “free individuals with no master,” the more we are effectively non-free, caught within the existing frame of possibilities.

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Macron’s triumphant victory is…dangerous,..his victory did not..awaken us – its effect is…: sighs of relief everywhere, the nightmare is over, thank God the danger was kept at bay, Europe and our democracy are saved, so now we can go back to our liberal-capitalist sleep again

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Western powers… create a pseudo-‘cultural’ antagonism between refugees and the local lower-class population, engaging them in a conflict which transforms a politico-economic struggle into one of the ‘clash of civilizations’

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One has to take the risk and intervene, even if reaching the goal appears (and is, in some sense) impossible – only by doing this can one change the situation so that the impossible becomes possible, in a way that can never be predicted

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the change is already happening in broad daylight: capitalism is openly disintegrating and changing into something else. We do not perceive this ongoing transformation because of our deep immersion in ideology

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The same holds for psychoanalytic treatment, where resolution also comes as a thief in broad daylight, as an unexpected by-product, never as the achievement of a posited goal. This is why psychoanalytic practice is something that is possible only because of its own impossibility

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the ideology of personal freedom could silently merge with the logic of victimhood (freedom being reduced to the freedom to bring out one’s victimhood)

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In today’s predominant form of individuality, the self-centered assertion of the psychological subject paradoxically overlaps with the perception of oneself as a victim of circumstances.

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The notion of the subject as an unresponsible victim is driven by a..narcissistic perspective in which every encounter with the Other appears as a potential threat to the subject’s precarious imaginary balance; as such, it is…the inherent supplement to, the liberal free subject

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this..emerging world-less civilization..affects the young, who oscillate between the intensity of..burning out (sexual enjoyment, drugs..,..violence), and the endeavour to succeed (study,…career,..money…within the..capitalist order). ..Tansgression..becomes the norm

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this..emerging world-less civilization..affects the young, who oscillate between the intensity of..burning out (sexual enjoyment, drugs..,violence), and the endeavour to succeed (study,…career, earn money…within the existing capitalist order). ..Tansgression..becomes the norm

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the possibility to choose and consume imperceptibly turns into a superego obligation to choose. The nihilist dimension of this space of freedoms can only function in a permanently accelerated way – the moment it slows down, we become aware of the meaninglessness

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We live in an extraordinary era in which there is no tradition on which we can base our identity, no frame of meaningful universe which might enable us to lead a life beyond hedonist reproduction

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Sloterdijk is the ultimate ‘prodder’, the one who is not afraid to ‘think dangerously’ and to question the presuppositions of human freedom and dignity, of our liberal welfare state https://t.co/7fhpYjHYa0

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thinking, insofar as its innermost potential is to think freely and ‘against itself’, is what, from the standpoint of conventional thinking, cannot but appear as ‘evil’ https://t.co/hGIfFKmmIP

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sad..to see Habermas trying to control the explosive results of biogenetics and curtail its philosophical consequences – his..endeavour betrays the fear…that the the old image of human dignity and autonomy will [not] survive unscathed. [@allenlanebooks typo: “not” is missing]

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Plato submitted ancient customs and myths to ruthless rational examination, Descartes undermined the medieval harmonious universe, Spinoza ended up being excommunicated, Hegel unleashed the all-destructive power of negativity, Nietzsche demystified the very basis of our morality

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a weirdly perverted situation in which the official ‘Left’ is enforcing austerity politics (at the same time advocating multicultural rights), while the populist Right is implementing anti-austerity measures to help the poor (while pursuing a xenophobic nationalist agenda)

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Parties like Die Linke in Germany represent the interests of their working-class constituency – better healthcare and retirement conditions, higher wages, and so on; this automatically puts them within the confines of the existing system

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Our predicament is..that..resistance to global capitalism…fails to recognize the many trends which clearly signal capitalism’s progressive disintegration. (A Thief In Broad Daylight) https://t.co/6zT25Nf3xv

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The task of the Left is…to change the prospect of what appears possible. (A Thief In Broad Daylight, 2018) https://t.co/C3hwRo3ybB

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