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Tue, 18 Jun 2013 20:34:41 -1000

"my book on Lenin was almost turned down by Verso. Why? Well, they always used to hint that I only..."

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 17:08:00 -1000

“my book on Lenin was almost turned down by Verso. Why? Well, they always used to hint that I only make jokes. So then I told them, now, you have a book on Lenin. Then, their approach was: ‘Where are the jokes? Nobody will buy this book!’”

- Slavoj Žižek

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Tue, 18 Jun 2013 13:43:08 -1000

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Tue, 18 Jun 2013 10:17:50 -1000

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Tue, 18 Jun 2013 06:51:50 -1000

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Tue, 18 Jun 2013 03:26:12 -1000

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Mon, 17 Jun 2013 20:34:41 -1000

"the problem is not what we are thinking when we do other, ordinary things, but what we are thinking..."

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 17:08:47 -1000

“the problem is not what we are thinking when we do other, ordinary things, but what we are thinking (fantasising) when we are ‘doing that’ - the Lacanian notion that ‘there is no sexual relationship’ ultimately means that, while we are ‘doing that’, while we are engaged in the sexual act itself, we need some fantasmatic supplement, we have to think (fantasise) about something else. We cannot simply fully immerse ourselves into the immediate pleasure of what we are doing - if we do that, the pleasurable tension gets lost.”

- Zizek

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Mon, 17 Jun 2013 13:42:57 -1000

"The impossible fulness at the level of meaning (of the signified) is sustained by the void (the..."

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 10:17:26 -1000

“The impossible fulness at the level of meaning (of the signified) is sustained by the void (the castrating dimension) at the level of the signifier. … Apropos of some notion, we enthusiastically feel that ‘this is it, the true thing, the true meaning’, although we are never able to explicate what, precisely, this meaning is.”

- Zizek

"You can’t will anything. Not even solitude is an act of will. You simply endure it. You must hold on..."

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 06:51:45 -1000

“You can’t will anything. Not even solitude is an act of will. You simply endure it. You must hold on until the very end”

- bram van velde

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Mon, 17 Jun 2013 03:26:11 -1000

"Desiring what the other desires (the ﬁrst reading of the formula) corresponds to a narcissistic,..."

Sun, 16 Jun 2013 20:34:44 -1000

“Desiring what the other desires (the ﬁrst reading of the formula) corresponds to a narcissistic, destructive desire that nevertheless presupposes an initial, minimal recognition of the other as other: … having recognized the other as other, I do not desire to be the other—with whom I identify— but I desire what the other desires, or, I contradictorily desire to be exactly like the other without wanting to be (the) other.”

- Lorenzo Chiesa

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Sun, 16 Jun 2013 17:09:09 -1000

"she tries to cover up her “lack of knowledge” as in her mind, knowledge has to be absolute."

Sun, 16 Jun 2013 13:43:08 -1000

“she tries to cover up her “lack of knowledge” as in her mind, knowledge has to be absolute.”

- Liliana Drob

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Sun, 16 Jun 2013 10:17:18 -1000

"Sometimes, it is necessary to abandon all hope. … This approach is … something sacred...."

Sun, 16 Jun 2013 06:51:44 -1000

“Sometimes, it is necessary to abandon all hope. … This approach is … something sacred. … So much happens outside of the will. … You must hold on until the very end. … You can do nothing else.”

- bram van velde

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Sun, 16 Jun 2013 03:26:13 -1000

"one should try to bypass this phallic obstacle in order to reach this dreamt-of other jouissance...."

Sat, 15 Jun 2013 20:34:38 -1000

“one should try to bypass this phallic obstacle in order to reach this dreamt-of other jouissance. Well, insofar that this is possible, … in this region beyond the phallic, we do not meet with the searched-for … sexual relationship between the man and the woman. We meet with “a jouissance of the body beyond the phallus””

- Lacan, On Feminine Sexuality

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Sat, 15 Jun 2013 17:09:05 -1000