Rafael Munia

“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

“Maybe that’s what religion is: a god ersatz rather than his affirmation.”
― Marcus Steinweg, 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.”
― Slavoj Žižek, 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.”
― Gilles Deleuze, Negotiations 1972-1990