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Pankaj Mishra
“They encourage the suspicion – potentially lethal among the hundreds of millions of people condemned to superfluousness – that the present order, democratic or authoritarian, is built upon force and fraud; they incite a broader and more apocalyptic mood than we have witnessed before. They also underscore the need for some truly transformative thinking, about both the self and the world.”
Pankaj Mishra, Age of Anger: A History of the Present

Oscar Wilde
“People nowadays are so absolutely superficial that they don't understand the philosophy of the superficial.”
Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance

Ha-Joon Chang
“If there are so many successful public enterprises, why do we rarely hear about them? It is partly because of the nature of reporting, whether journalistic or academic. Newspapers tend to report bad things – wars, natural disasters, epidemics, famines, crime, bankruptcy, etc. While it is natural and necessary for newspapers to focus on these events, the journalistic habit tends to present the public with the bleakest possible view of the world. In the case of SOEs, journalists and academics usually investigate them only when things go wrong – inefficiency, corruption or negligence.Well-performing SOEs attract relatively little attention in the same way that a peaceful and productive day in the life of a ‘model citizen’ is unlikely to make front-page news. There”
Ha-Joon Chang, Bad Samaritans: The Myth of Free Trade and the Secret History of Capitalism

Walter Benjamin
“The concept of progress must be grounded in the idea of catastrophe. That things are "status quo" is the catastrophe. It is not an ever-present possibility but
what in each case is given. Thus hell is not
something that awaits us, but this life here and now.”
Walter Benjamin, The Arcades Project

Georges Bataille
“Man always becomes other. Man is the animal who continually differs from himself.”
Georges Bataille, The Bataille Reader

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