surplus enjoyment is not a surplus which simply attaches itself to some ‘normal’, fundamental enjoyment, because enjoyment as such emerges only in this surplus, because it is constitutively an 'excess’ [on capitalism’s excessive core]

http://twitter.com/extimacy/status/1064470873460146178 http://bit.ly/2QDSn2o

Here, we encounter Stiglitz’s..limitation: Does he…not imply that there is another, proper capitalism, in which markets are really and fairly competitive, not our ‘distorted markets in which corporations and the rich can (and unfortunately do) exploit everyone else’?

http://twitter.com/extimacy/status/1064450785520611328 http://bit.ly/2W3pM7F

the key to actual freedom resides in the…social relations, from the market to the family. Here…change…entails precisely revolutionary class struggle rather than democratic elections or any other ‘political’ measure in the narrow sense of the term https://t.co/vUZXfEA8ID

http://twitter.com/extimacy/status/1064426825479266304 http://bit.ly/2HLhZaJ

We do not vote on who owns what…- such matters remain outside the sphere of the political, and it is illusory to expect that one will effectively change things by ‘extending’ democracy into the economic sphere by, say, reorganizing the banks to place them under popular control

http://twitter.com/extimacy/status/1064412797151395840 http://bit.ly/2JMLcnM

the influx of immigrant workers… is part of the strategy of capital to hold in check the workers’ demands. This is why, in the United States, Bush did more for the legalization of the status of Mexican illegal immigrants than the Democrats caught in trade union pressures.

http://twitter.com/extimacy/status/1064407409945395205 http://bit.ly/2X9Yrlw

economic growth and global-capitalist processes structurally exclude democracy – even in the form that capitalism itself ascribes to it.

http://twitter.com/extimacy/status/1064249886042816513 http://bit.ly/2WtYsDC

in a way you do encounter the impossible. You cannot say this is mere transcendental illusion of confusing an empirical object with the impossible Thing. The vagina is impossible, but it is not simply an illusion.

http://twitter.com/extimacy/status/1064246614548602880 http://bit.ly/2WnqzEB

[he learns] to assume directly his relationship to the object that gives body to his jouissance, bypassing the proxy who enjoys in his place, instead of him. …In assuming my fundamental fantasy I take upon myself the..kernel of my being…whose distance sustains my..activity

http://twitter.com/extimacy/status/1064205387199582209 http://bit.ly/2ws5r1z

a pervert..assumes the position of..pure instrument of the Other’s jouissance: for the (male) pervert, the sexual act..involves a clear division of labor in which he reduces himself to a pure tool of..enjoyment; he is doing the hard work..while the woman..stares into the air

http://twitter.com/extimacy/status/1064160077328908288 http://bit.ly/2QlF1ay

people…know very well that the commodity-money is nothing but a reified form of the appearance of social relations, that, beneath the “relations between things,” there are “relations between people.” …In their social activity, they act as if they do not know this

http://twitter.com/extimacy/status/1064108476236996608 http://bit.ly/30LWVZ8

it is the capitalist order itself whose..dynamics is destroying the..family.. (incidentally, a fact more true today than in Marx’s time), as well as expropriating the large majority of the population.

http://twitter.com/extimacy/status/1064066948156350464 http://bit.ly/2HwAU98

there are Others who, through smoking, are enjoying themselves too intensely in a self­destructive way — and this is unbearable. Here you have at its purest the figure of the intrusive neighbour who enjoys him or herself too much. …The Neighbour is the Real

http://twitter.com/extimacy/status/1063883471586680833 http://bit.ly/2Vz0Wwd

You can refer to Marx without any problems… But if you refer to Lenin,…it is unbelievable how everybody said to me afterwards that it was merely a cheap provocation. Excuse me, but when I organized a colloquium in Essen, as I later found out,..German secret service popped up

http://twitter.com/extimacy/status/1063882180047368198 http://bit.ly/2Qkx4CR

the democratic political frame is already accommodated to..capitalist structure. To really change..capitalist structure, one must also change this democratic political frame; one cannot do it by enforcing changes through..electoral procedures which remain the same as before

http://twitter.com/extimacy/status/1063873529144168448 http://bit.ly/2WQy7Nh

prayer wheels that do the praying for you, are not as stupid and “primitive” as they..seem,..they harbor a momentous liberating potential. By…surrendering my innermost content, including my dreams and anxieties, to the Other, a space opens up in which I am free to breathe

http://twitter.com/extimacy/status/1063790137878986753 http://bit.ly/2Vwag3R

about his new novel I…asked Hanif Kureishi: “But the hero is nonetheless [again] an immigrant with a Pakistani father who is a failed writer” He replied: “What’s the problem? Do we not all have Pakistani fathers who are failed writers?” He was right https://t.co/v1ZOP6hJHX

http://twitter.com/extimacy/status/1063752386026659840 http://bit.ly/2VFdg2O

the true universality is not that of the ideal being-a-father, but that of failure itself. Therein resides today’s..impasse: in the..father’s growing reluctance to accept the symbolic mandate “father"http://-this..is the..motif that runs through Spielberg https://t.co/v1ZOP6hJHX

http://twitter.com/extimacy/status/1063707078559236096 http://bit.ly/2LJVtCS

the…twist Kureishi experienced in his father is part of EVERY father,…everybody’s father…failed to live up to his mandate & left to his son the task to settle his symbolic debts. In this sense..Kureishi’s Pakistani failed writer is…a singular standing in for..universality

http://twitter.com/extimacy/status/1063621042151804928 http://bit.ly/2EbXHEZ

I am myself so tired of the purist pseudo-Marxist critique of advertising as part of commodity fetishism that I am almost tempted to propose the following guideline: a critical social theorist who is not able to enjoy advertisements should not be taken seriously

http://twitter.com/extimacy/status/1063567483792175104 http://bit.ly/2Yy7Svx

all that is holy is profaned. It is this crazy dynamic of global capitalism that makes effective resistance..difficult… The rage exploding across Europe today is, as Franco Berardi put it…“impotent and inconsequential, as consciousness & coordinated action seem beyond..reach”

http://twitter.com/extimacy/status/1063566165463756802 http://bit.ly/2JwPhM1

I..support PussyRiot’s..performance. What u wrote about masks reminds me of…Nietzsche’s “what must a person have suffered if he needs to be a clown that badly” One shld unconditionally defend the apparently…clownish attitude…as..only appropriate reaction to…violent events

http://twitter.com/extimacy/status/1063547287996112896 http://bit.ly/30cqmTD

Dear Nadezhda,…Pussy Riot’s very existence communicates to thousands..that opportunist cynicism is not the only option, that we are not totally disoriented, that there still is a common cause worth fighting for. …As the old saying goes, fortune favors the brave! Yours, Slavoj

http://twitter.com/extimacy/status/1063542252079915008 http://bit.ly/2YfFtdg

This is how a true Master works: he doesn’t try to guess what people want; he simply obeys his own desire and leaves it up to others to decide if they want to follow him. In other words, his power stems from his fidelity to his desire, from refusing to compromise on it.

http://twitter.com/extimacy/status/1063529680773570560 http://bit.ly/2WyirOj

If we are not able to step outside the compulsion of the system, the gap between the frantic dynamics it imposes and our corporeal and cognitive limitations sooner or later brings about a fall into depression

http://twitter.com/extimacy/status/1063519616188727296 http://bit.ly/2vPadpf

the neighbour is the Real. …An injunction like ‘Love thy neighbour’ is precisely one of the ways of avoiding the trauma of the neighbour.

http://twitter.com/extimacy/status/1063516050816327680 http://bit.ly/2Q33bXz

Pussy Riot does not propose…destabilization of the existing static order-in a deeper sense, it is today’s society that is caught in a crazy capitalist dynamic with no inner sense or measure, and it is Pussy Riot which de facto offers a stable ethico-political point.

http://twitter.com/extimacy/status/1063500739153195008 http://bit.ly/2ZZfs3D

“fundamentalists” are, for all their apparent passion, ultimately puppets used and manipulated by the cold logic of state power. The task is not to crush them, but to try to redirect their passion against those who use and manipulate them.

http://twitter.com/extimacy/status/1063478115920429059 http://bit.ly/2Lq44e5

it is “normal” life itself which, in a way, becomes “carnivalized,” with its constant reversals, crises, and reinventions, such that it is now the critique of capitalism, from a “stable” ethical position, which increasingly appears as the exception.

http://twitter.com/extimacy/status/1063466556619988998 http://bit.ly/2vEXIg5

not, let’s have…sex so..we no longer need to fantasize, but, rather,…you can get lost in fantasy,…it can overwhelm you, &…a..sexual act is a defensive measure to control this explosion… The Real here is in the fantasy & you escape into reality to..control this excess

http://twitter.com/extimacy/status/1063214563967950848 http://bit.ly/2IXRSPs

The belief is..that with a little bit of good sex you get real satisfaction, so who needs to fantasize? But I think…you can get lost in fantasy &…the sexual act…is a measure to control this explosion of fantasy… You turn into reality..to stifle the fantasmatic explosion

http://twitter.com/extimacy/status/1063207769501835264 http://bit.ly/2JbT1Ci

Nazism is the ultimate perversion of the logic of supreme good. ..Nazism means… even the worst crimes, should be undertaken for the good of the nation. …The logic of the holocaust is…inscribed in the tension between…moral law and its obscene underside superego.

http://twitter.com/extimacy/status/1063205103719653376 http://bit.ly/2J7f64Z