#andre.vantino

Adorno and Horkheimer, on how figures like Trump rely on the lure of being unrestrained, i.e. unrestrained in their attitude against Muslims. Fascism has to be defined very precisely by this lure of no longer bothering about the appearance of civility. In this regard fascism is inextricably structurally anti-Semitic and its first signs show in the steep increase in hate speech and hate crimes against Muslims witnessed in 2016. 

FRANZ KAFKA to Felice, on how the door to a desired person can be like one of the doors of the law or one of the doors to society and to having a place in society, just as one desires a place in a relationship when one desires a woman

KAFKA on how we enjoy sacrifice and pain as a way of coping with the unnecessary superego pressures which made us think of ourselves as sinful in the first place

REBECCA COMAY citing Hegel - Comay says, the ‘irreality of German philosophical existance’ is the sequel in which the ‘Spirit’ assumes its own ‘symbolic castration’  after the French Revolution’s failed attempts at finding itself

REBECCA COMAY on the connection of absolute freedom to the terror of freedom, the terror of the guillotine of Revolutionary France, the guillotine as a new instrument of a new unsanctified law that is not authorized by antecedents but only by choice and freedom

FRANZ KAFKA on the illusion of a suicide done for the big Other, done for how one would be seen in the great account

FRANZ KAFKA on subjectivity being defined by a nothing, by a filth, rather than, in his words, by “the good or the beautiful”. This is why one should not look too deeply inside, one should not always analyse onself, because, in Zizek’s words, there is only “shit” there, only a void there.

SLAVOJ ZIZEK on how all sacrifice is a false sacrifice serving to create the illusion of greatness, luring us into seeing the other or the social order as big Other