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“Yeah, because I'm extremely romantic here. You know what is my fear? This postmodern, permissive, pragmatic etiquette towards sex. It's horrible. They claim sex is healthy; it's good for the heart, for blood circulation, it relaxes you. They even go into how kissing is also good because it develops the muscles here – this is horrible, my God! It's no longer that absolute passion. I like this idea of sex as part of love, you know: 'I'm ready to sell my mother into slavery just to fuck you for ever.' There is something nice, transcendent, about it. I remain incurably romantic.”
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“It is really true what philosophy tells us, that life must be understood backwards. But with this, one forgets the second proposition, that it must be lived forwards. A proposition which, the more it is subjected to careful thought, the more it ends up concluding precisely that life at any given moment cannot really ever be fully understood; exactly because there is no single moment where time stops completely in order for me to take position [to do this]: going backwards.”
― Journals and Papers
― Journals and Papers
“Eros'un Istırabı
Bugün aşk cinselliğe, kendisi de başarı emrine tabi olan cinselliğe dönüşerek pozitif bir hal alıyor. Seks başarmaktır. Ve seksilik çoğaltılması gereken bir sermayedir. Beden sergilenme değeriyle bir metaya benzer" (20).
Her şeyin mümkün olduğu, her şeyin insiyatif ve projeden ibaret olduğu, Becerebilme'nin egemenliğindeki başarı toplumunda ise incinme ve tutku olarak aşka geçit yoktur. (21)”
― The Agony of Eros
Bugün aşk cinselliğe, kendisi de başarı emrine tabi olan cinselliğe dönüşerek pozitif bir hal alıyor. Seks başarmaktır. Ve seksilik çoğaltılması gereken bir sermayedir. Beden sergilenme değeriyle bir metaya benzer" (20).
Her şeyin mümkün olduğu, her şeyin insiyatif ve projeden ibaret olduğu, Becerebilme'nin egemenliğindeki başarı toplumunda ise incinme ve tutku olarak aşka geçit yoktur. (21)”
― The Agony of Eros
“Words are never 'only words'; they matter because they define the contours of what we can do.”
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“[T]his readiness to assume the guilt for the threats to our environment is deceptively reassuring: We like to be guilty since, if we are guilty, it all depends on us. We pull the strings of the catastrophe, so we can also save ourselves simply by changing our lives. What is really hard for us (at least in the West) to accept is that we are reduced to the role of a passive observer who sits and watches what our fate will be. To avoid this impotence, we engage in frantic, obsessive activities. We recycle old paper, we buy organic food, we install long-lasting light bulbs—whatever—just so we can be sure that we are doing something. We make our individual contribution like the soccer fan who supports his team in front of a TV screen at home, shouting and jumping from his seat, in the belief that this will somehow influence the game's outcome.”
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