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Reading Heidegger against the grain, one discovers a thinker who was, at some points, strangely close to communism.
Less Than Nothing (2012)
The medium here is not the message, quite the opposite: the very medium that we use—the universal intersubjectivity of language—undermines the message.
Less Than Nothing (2012)
There is nothing in Lacan which is not stupid, no exceptions to stupidity, so that what makes him not totally stupid is only the very inconsistency of his stupidity.
Less Than Nothing (2012)
If the West has its military-industrial complex, we in the ex-Yugoslavia had a poetic-military complex: the post-Yugoslav was was triggered by a mixture of poetic and military components.
Less Than Nothing (2012)
The horror of the Holocaust cannot be represented; but this excess of represented content over its aesthetic representation has to infect the aesthetic form itself. What cannot be described should be inscribed into the artistic form as its uncanny distortion.
Less Than Nothing (2012)
The protracted struggle which dragged on in Egypt was not a conflict of visions, but the conflict between a vision of freedom, the "eternal" Platonic Idea of Freedom, and a blind clinging to power ready to use all means possible—terror, food deprivation, exhaustion, bribery—to crush the will to freedom.
Less Than Nothing (2012)
The present book is thus neither The Complete Idiot's Guide to Hegel, nor is it yet another university textbook on Hegel (which would be for morons, of course); it is something like The Imbecile's Guide to Hegel—Hegel for those whose IQ is somewhere close to their bodily temperature (in Celsius), as the insult goes.
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