S. Mehdi
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“We first become aware of freedom or its opposite in our intercourse with others, not in the intercourse with ourselves.”
― Between Past and Future
― Between Past and Future
“The golden age of cultural theory is long past. The pioneering works of Jacques Lacan, Claude Lévi-Strauss, Louis Althusser, Roland Barthes and Michel Foucault are several decades behind us [ … ] Some of them have since been struck down. Fate pushed Roland Barthes under a Parisian laundry van, and afflicted Michel Foucault with Aids. It dispatched Lacan, Williams and Bourdieu, and banished Louis Althusser to a psychiatric hospital for the murder of his wife. It seemed that God was not a structuralist.”
― After Theory
― After Theory
“It’s tough to live with people stuck in the past, isn’t it?”
― Harry Potter and the Cursed Child
― Harry Potter and the Cursed Child
“A little darkness, in itself, at the time, is nothing. You think no more about it and you go on. But I know what darkness is, it accumulates, thickens, then suddenly bursts and drowns everything.”
― Malone Dies
― Malone Dies
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