February 2012
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January 2012
105 posts
Twins
repetition and difference
One of the sets of identical twins in National Geographic “Twins Photo Gallery” are now Brother and Sister.
http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2012/01/twins/cobb-schoeller-photography#/06-juan-liana-670.jpg
“It is the very success of capitalism (greater efficiency, raised productivity etc) which produces unemployment, rendering more and more workers useless: what should be a blessing – less hard labour needed – becomes a curse. Or, to put it differently, the chance to be exploited in a long-term job is now experienced as a privilege.”
—Slavoj Žižek
(via mrmensch)
“[The] breaking up of the word is the true step back on the way of thinking”
—
Martin Heidegger, On the Way to Language, translated by Peter D. Hertz (via daplaney
)
“The world was saved from the terrors of the great depression not by some glorious ‘new deal’ or the magic touch of Keynesian economics in the treasuries of the world, but by the destruction and death of global war… the present theory suggests a rather more sinister and terrifying interpretation of military expenditures: not only must weapons be bought and paid for out of surpluses of capital and labour, but they must also be put to use. For this is the only means that capitalism has at its disposal to achieve the levels of devaluation now required. The idea is dreadful in its implications. What better reason could there be to declare that it is time for capitalism to be gone, to give way to some saner mode of production?”
—David Harvey, The Limits to Capital, afterword (via daplaney)
“The ego is like the superimposition of various coats borrowed from what I would call the bric-à-brac of its props department.”
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The Seminar of Jacques Lacan, Book II: The Ego in Freud’s Theory and in the Technique of Psychoanalysis (New York: Norton, 1991), p. 155. (via ifiwereahoarder
)
