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“I dream of a moment when, without my asking, my actions will betray completely this part of me that asks for nothing”
― Thirst for Love
― Thirst for Love
“When tension and immediacy combine, the story begins.”
― Making Shapely Fiction
― Making Shapely Fiction
“the postmodern trajectory itself is a rather humorous joke on the human race which laboured for millennia to reduce working hours in order to produce leisure so we could enjoy this very leisure that then turns in a kind of vengeful act against us absorbing our leisure time, which was to be our living time, into time now spent in the service of what can only be called this inhuman spectacle”
― The Self Under Siege: Philosophy In The Twentieth Century
― The Self Under Siege: Philosophy In The Twentieth Century
“Adam seemed clothed in a viscosity that slowed his movements and held his thoughts down. He saw the world through gray water. Now and then his mind fought its way upward, and when the light broke in it brought him only a sickness of the mind, and he retired into the grayness again.”
― East of Eden
― East of Eden
“This belief in the truth of the image leaves us especially vulnerable to ideological coercion (which is not to say, of course, that the image cannot be subversive as well). The image, much more than the word, inspires trust, and this trust is precisely what ideology hopes to engender. This is why fascists rely so heavily on imagery. In fact, cultural theorist Paul Gilroy links the rise of the image to the rise of fascism in the mid-twentieth century.”
― The End of Dissatisfaction: Jacques Lacan and the Emerging Society of Enjoyment
― The End of Dissatisfaction: Jacques Lacan and the Emerging Society of Enjoyment
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