Žižek

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We are certainly entertained

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The United States is transforming from a two-party political system into one comprising establishment Republicans, establishment Democrats, alt-right populists, and democratic socialists. In confronting all those who will try to derail him, New York’s mayor-elect will need to keep this big picture in mind.

Zupančič’s work is beyond interesting, and the general sentiment sounds nice…but this could really be utter psychobabble potentially. Wanted to post for others’ thoughts either way

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in itself, to itself, of itself, for itself

I am McLovin it

Archive.today — https://archive.ph/2iU9r

much more can be achieved or revealed, if we don’t do things for the sake of ritual (a thing we must do according to status quo). Its a sort of stretching of the bounds or going beyond the horizons of ontology

Don’t be afraid to bend the rules and the meta-rules!

Ideology is the symbolic structuring the imaginary (both the constitution of the Other and its occlusion) as well as intervening in the real (we actually landed Perseverance on Mars). The Real shows up in contradictions between and within ideologies, and in the astronaut’s traumatic realization that his world, both mediated and produced, is shaped by the signifier. So not all hope is lost as there is still freedom in the real and always will be. There is still a chance that we might dodge the bullet.

Europe looks like Schrödinger’s cat, simultaneously at peace and at war.