48 books
—
90 voters
This perversion of the asynchronous flexibility of typical online interaction created its own seductive rigor for players, leading some to wake up in the middle of the night to tend to their virtual farms. For a certain minority of players,
...more
“The negativity of otherness or foreignness is de-interiorized and transformed into the positivity of communicable and consumable difference: ‘diversity’.”
― Psychopolitics: Neoliberalism and New Technologies of Power
― Psychopolitics: Neoliberalism and New Technologies of Power
“Maybe that’s what religion is: a god ersatz rather than his affirmation.”
― Inconsistencies
― Inconsistencies
“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.”
― The Courage of Hopelessness: Chronicles of a Year of Acting Dangerously
― The Courage of Hopelessness: Chronicles of a Year of Acting Dangerously
“So it’s not a problem of getting people to express themselves but of providing little gaps of solitude and silence in which they might eventually find something to say. Repressive forces don’t stop people expressing themselves but rather force them to express themselves; What a relief to have nothing to say, the right to say nothing, because only then is there a chance of framing the rare, and ever rarer, thing that might be worth saying.”
― Negotiations 1972-1990
― Negotiations 1972-1990
“What this means is that we should reject not only all manifestations of ‘alternative modernity’ (which amount to a ‘capitalism without capitalism’, without its destructive aspect), but also all attempts to rely on particular traditional life-worlds (local cultures) as potential ‘sites of resistance’ against global capitalism. The only path to freedom leads through the zero-point of the brutal loss of roots, i.e., the bringing to an end the disintegration of traditional ties set in motion by capitalism. When capitalism relies on traditional cultural roots it tries to contain its own destructive force.”
― The Courage of Hopelessness: Chronicles of a Year of Acting Dangerously
― The Courage of Hopelessness: Chronicles of a Year of Acting Dangerously
Japanese Literature
— 5617 members
— last activity Apr 27, 2026 08:42PM
A group for people who enjoy literature written by Japanese authors, the arts, culture, and history of Japan. Apr 2026: Hooked: A Novel of Obsession ...more
Existential Book Club
— 1514 members
— last activity Apr 11, 2026 07:12AM
This a book club for anybody interested in reading existentialist literature and fiction. Every month I'll be putting up a new text either by an exist ...more
Situationist Theory
— 30 members
— last activity Apr 16, 2017 04:17PM
This is a group for the discussion of Situationist theory, with an emphasis on modern contextual analysis. The book list will include Situationists ...more
Rafael’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Rafael’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
More friends…
Favorite Genres
Art, Contemporary, Crime, Horror, Humor and Comedy, Mystery, Philosophy, Poetry, Psychology, and Suspense
Polls voted on by Rafael
Lists liked by Rafael

































































