Rafael Munia

“Maybe that’s what religion is: a god ersatz rather than his affirmation.”
― Marcus Steinweg, Inconsistencies

“Neoliberalism represents a highly efficient, indeed an intelligent, system for exploiting freedom. Everything that belongs to practices and expressive forms of liberty –emotion, play and communication –comes to be exploited.”
― Byung-Chul Han, Psychopolitics: Neoliberalism and New Technologies of Power

“The negativity of otherness or foreignness is de-interiorized and transformed into the positivity of communicable and consumable difference: ‘diversity’.”
― Byung-Chul Han, Psychopolitics: Neoliberalism and New Technologies of Power

“if Western universal values are false, is it enough to oppose them with a particular way of life like China’s Confucian ‘mainstream ideology’? Don’t we need a different universalism, a different project of universal emancipation? The ultimate irony here is that ‘socialism with Chinese characteristics’ effectively means socialism with a market economy (with capitalist characteristics), i.e., a socialism that fully integrates China into the global market. The universality of global capitalism is left intact – it is silently accepted as the only possible frame, and the project of Confucian harmony is mobilized only in order to keep under control the antagonisms that come from global capitalist dynamics.”
― Slavoj Žižek, The Courage of Hopelessness: Chronicles of a Year of Acting Dangerously