June 2012
130 posts
“There is no natural situation on earth in which someone could ask this strangest...”
– Bruno Latour, Pandora’s Hope (via pragmatica)
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“There were no banks in the City until the mid-17th century, and even a century...”
– Slavery and the building of Britain - we should widen that to read ‘Slavery and the building of Capitalism’. (via rumagin)
“Contemporary culture has eliminated both the concept of the pubic and the figure...”
– Zero Books: About Us
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According to the London-based Bureau of... →
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“Then, too, on the telephone the other is always in a situation of departure; the...”
– Roland Barthes, A Lover’s Discourse (via hegemon)
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“The New Racism demands that accusers be empathic and telepathic. Accusers are...”
– Son of Baldwin (via sonofbaldwin)
“Capitalist ideology in general, Zizek maintains, consists precisely in the...”
– Mark Fisher, Capitalist Realism: Is There an Alternative?, Zero Books, p. 13
This is why I never let my students discuss their privatized ‘opinions’.
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