this constitutive role of the Father in carving out the space for a viable enjoyment can be found in the deadlock of today’s permissiveness, where the master or expert no longer prohibits enjoyment but enjoins it (“sex is healthy,” etcetera), thereby effectively sabotaging it

http://twitter.com/extimacy/status/1065540441947426816 http://bit.ly/2XUAkI5

Merkel declared…: “This multicultural approach, saying that we…live happily with each other, has failed. Utterly failed.” …Conservatives insisted that every state is based on a predominant cultural space that the members of other cultures..in the same space should respect

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commodification of sexuality: Houellebecq depicts the morning after the sexual revolution, the sterility of a universe dominated by the superego injunction to enjoy.

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Already with Heine, not just with Marx…philosophy was the German substitute for the revolution. That is the dilemma: you can’t have both. It is false to claim that the French could have had philosophy if only they had been clever enough.

http://twitter.com/extimacy/status/1065240969707171846 http://bit.ly/31pWyDW

virtual reality…is a relatively banal idea. It doesn’t give us anything to think. Virtual reality..means: ‘…we can create with our technological toys an appearance that in the end we believe to be reality.’ In my view, it is the reality of the virtual which is interesting

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economic growth and global-capitalist processes structurally exclude democracy - even in the form that capitalism itself ascribes to it https://t.co/71vGEsYun1

http://twitter.com/extimacy/status/1065156656579919874 http://bit.ly/2I5oEfN

The Americans…want to combine their world, their power to be able to intervene militarily in the world wherever they want, with a new isolationism, new walls… And democracy is defined in such a radically new way in this process that only its name remains https://t.co/JkPJuHR6b8

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