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steve jobs is syrian and never gives to charity
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Žižek: Shoplifters of the World Unite! →
“This is why it is difficult to conceive of the UK rioters in Marxist terms, as an instance of the emergence of the revolutionary subject; they fit much better the Hegelian notion of the ‘rabble’, those outside organised social space, who can express their discontent only through ‘irrational’ outbursts of destructive violence – what Hegel called ‘abstract negativity’.”
“By believing passionately in something that still does not exist, we create it....”
– Franz Kafka
“Error shows itself to be such whenever, at a given moment, it ends in a...”
– Jacques Lacan, Seminar I: Freud’s Papers on Technique
The top 1% [video] →
The richest one per cent of Americans earn nearly a quarter of the country’s income and control an astonishing 40 per cent of its wealth. Inequality in the US is more extreme than it has been in almost a century - and the gap between the super-rich and the poor and middle class people has widened drastically over the last 30 years.
Meanwhile, in Washington, a bitter partisan debate over how...
July 2011
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“There are two ways to escape suffering it. The first is easy for many: accept...”
– Italo Calvino, Invisible Cities
“Lying to ourselves is more deeply ingrained than lying to others.”
– Fyodor Dostoyevsky
