Mathias Kruse
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“A society of free people will always have crime, violence and social disruption. It will never be completely safe. The alternative is a police state. A police state can give you safe streets, but only at the price of your human spirit.”
― Pihkal: A Chemical Love Story
― Pihkal: A Chemical Love Story
“An empty stomach knows no morality.”
― What Is Property?
― What Is Property?
“There is so much you don't see. You walk around in a world with holes in it; you stumble into them; and get hurt.”
― Dhalgren
― Dhalgren
“The death of a social machine has never been heralded by a disharmony or a dysfunction; on the contrary, social machines make a habit of feeding on the contradictions they give rise to, on the crises they provoke, on the anxieties they engender, and on the infernal operations they regenerate. Capitalism has learned this, and has ceased doubting itself, while even socialists have abandoned belief in the possibility of capitalism's natural death by attrition. No one has ever died from contradictions. And the more it breaks down, the more it schizophrenizes, the better it works, the American way.”
― Anti-Oedipus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia
― Anti-Oedipus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia
“Desire is the endless search for one’s “lost” substantial being within a differentiated field of insubstantial meaning fundamentally structured in such a way as to make pure substantiality impossible to attain—we chase after our “lost” plentitude in the very network of signifiers that alienated us from it in the first place.”
― Capital VS Timenergy: A Žižekian Critique of Nick Land
― Capital VS Timenergy: A Žižekian Critique of Nick Land
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