uitspraken raden

[Geert C]

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Jouissance refers to an excessive pleasure and pain, to that something extra that twists pleasure into a fascinating, even unbearable intensity. We might think here of the difference between friendship and passionate love. Whereas spending time with friends may be pleasurable, falling in love can be agonizing. Yet it is a special kind of agony, an agony that makes us feel more alive, more fully present, more in tune with what makes life worth living, and dying for, than anything else. Jouissance, then, is this extra, this excess beyond the given, measurable, rational, and useful. It cannot be reduced to the seemingly rational terms of cost/benefit analysis. Nor can jouissance be allocated through the weighing of pros and cons. Instead, jouissance is that "something extra" fot the sake of which we do what might otherwise seem irrational, counter productive, ...

Jacques Lacan?

[Praetorian]

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Jacques Lacan?

Nope.

[Samsa]

Zizek dan

[Praetorian]

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Zizek dan

[abou Anis]

Joanna Zylinska

[ericferemans]

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Jouissance refers to an excessive pleasure and pain, to that something extra that twists pleasure into a fascinating, even unbearable intensity. We might think here of the difference between friendship and passionate love. Whereas spending time with friends may be pleasurable, falling in love can be agonizing. Yet it is a special kind of agony, an agony that makes us feel more alive, more fully present, more in tune with what makes life worth living, and dying for, than anything else. Jouissance, then, is this extra, this excess beyond the given, measurable, rational, and useful. It cannot be reduced to the seemingly rational terms of cost/benefit analysis. Nor can jouissance be allocated through the weighing of pros and cons. Instead, jouissance is that "something extra" fot the sake of which we do what might otherwise seem irrational, counter productive, ...

Jodi Dean !

[Praetorian]

We live in a society in which slavery isn’t recognized. It’s nevertheless
clear to any sociologist or philosopher that it has in no way been abolished
. . . one might say it has been generalized. The relationship of those
known as the exploiters, in relation to the economy as a whole, is no less
a relationship of bondage than that of the average man. Thus the masterslave
duality is generalized within each participant in our society. . . .
The entire modern revolution was founded on . . . the notion that the
discourse of freedom was, by definition, not only ineffectual but also
profoundly alienated from its aim and object, that everything probative
that is linked to it is properly speaking the enemy of all progress towards
freedom. . . . Nonetheless, this discourse of freedom is articulated deep
within us all as representing a certain right of the individual to autonomy.
A certain mental breathing space seems indispensable to modern
man, one in which his independence not only of any master but also of
any god is affirmed, a space for his irreducible autonomy as individual,
as individual existence. Here there is indeed something that merits a
point-by-point comparison with a delusional discourse.

[Praetorian]

The orthodox economists have been much preoccupied with elegant elaborations of minor problems, which distract the attention of their pupils from the uncogenial realities of the modern world, and the development of abstract arguments has far run ahead of any possibility of empirical verification. [...] Marx's sense of reality is far stronger, and his argument towers above their intricate constructions in a enormous grandeur.

[netslet]

Joan Robinson?

[Praetorian]

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Joan Robinson?

Google?

[netslet]

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Google?

Ja, al heb ik wel al eens gehoord van Joan Robinson.

[netslet]

The Renaissance quest to overcome distances, all kinds of distances,
would once again lead to the elimination of intervals, and our
own movement in the time of the universe was to be singularly transformed
by acknowledgement of this internal/external couple always
far from equilibrium. Furthermore, this occurred at a time when
Marxist and other philosophers were finally getting down to the
serious job of revision, rather late in the day, scratching their heads
over 'the hopeless perversion of the ideals of the Enlightenment and
the demise of a philosophy of consciousness that posited an isolated
subject in relation to an objective world that could be represented and
changed'. This was the exhaustion of that Cartesian tradition which
had sprung out of the original invention of the serialisation not only
of forms-images but also of mental images and which was the origin
of the City and human social communities based on the constitution
of collective paramnesias, on the 'ideal of a world essentially the
same, essentially shared as that preliminary foundation of the construction
of meaning (Sinnbildung) we call geometry'. Everyone, in
fact, in their own way, is living out the end of an era.

[Percalion]

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The orthodox economists have been much preoccupied with elegant elaborations of minor problems, which distract the attention of their pupils from the uncogenial realities of the modern world, and the development of abstract arguments has far run ahead of any possibility of empirical verification. [...] Marx's sense of reality is far stronger, and his argument towers above their intricate constructions in a enormous grandeur.

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Joan Robinson?

Uit welk werk komt dat?

[netslet]

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Uit welk werk komt dat?

An Essay on Marxian Economics

[netslet]

It is a war of images and sounds, rather than objects and
things, in which winning is simply a matter of not losing sight of the
opposition. The will to see all, to know all, at every moment, everywhere,
the will to universalised illumination: a scientific permutation
on the eye of God which would forever rule out the surprise, the
accident, the irruption of the unforeseen.

[Praetorian]

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The Renaissance quest to overcome distances, all kinds of distances,
would once again lead to the elimination of intervals, and our
own movement in the time of the universe was to be singularly transformed
by acknowledgement of this internal/external couple always
far from equilibrium. Furthermore, this occurred at a time when
Marxist and other philosophers were finally getting down to the
serious job of revision, rather late in the day, scratching their heads
over 'the hopeless perversion of the ideals of the Enlightenment and
the demise of a philosophy of consciousness that posited an isolated
subject in relation to an objective world that could be represented and
changed'. This was the exhaustion of that Cartesian tradition which
had sprung out of the original invention of the serialisation not only
of forms-images but also of mental images and which was the origin
of the City and human social communities based on the constitution
of collective paramnesias, on the 'ideal of a world essentially the
same, essentially shared as that preliminary foundation of the construction
of meaning (Sinnbildung) we call geometry'. Everyone, in
fact, in their own way, is living out the end of an era.

Virilio. Me likes Virilio.

[netslet]

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Virilio. Me likes Virilio.

Ik ook, vreemd genoeg.

Dat boek leest dan ook als een trein.

[Praetorian]

Der 1. Mai 1933 steht nun einmal nicht nur für die offizielle Anerkennung des Kampftages der Arbeiterklasse. Er steht ebenso für die Zerschlagung der Arbeiterbewegung durch das Hitler-Regime, das in seiner Gewerkschaftsfeindlichkeit nicht einmal vor der Nationalsozialistischen Betriebszellen-Organisation Halt machte! Enteignung der Kapitalgesellschaften und des Großgrundbesitzes, Kampf gegen das Spekulantentum, Brechung der Zinsknechtschaft – Fehlanzeige. Im Gegenteil, es brachen paradiesische Zustände für Finanzkapital und Schlotbarone an.

[Praetorian]

The head, even the human head, is not necessarily a face. The face is produced only when the head ceases to be a part of the body, when it ceases to be coded by the body, when it ceases to have a multidimensional, polyvocal corporeal code – when the body, head included, has been decoded and has to be overcoded by something we shall call the Face.

[Praetorian]

All societies are rational and irrational at the same time. They are perforce rational in their mechanisms, their cogs and wheels, their connecting systems, and even by the place they assign to the irrational. Yet all this presuposes codes or axioms which are not the products of chance, but which are not intrinsically rational either. It's like theology: everything about it is rational if you accept sin, immaculate conception, incarnation. Reason is always a region cut out of the irrational -- not sheltered from the irrational at all, but a region traveresed by the irrational and defined only by a certain type of relation between irrational factors. Underneath all reason lies delirium, drift. Everything is rational in capitalism, except capital or capitalism itself. The stock market is certainly rational; one can understand it, study it, the capitalists know how to use it, and yet it is completely delirious, it's mad. It is in this sense that we say: the rational is always the rationality of an irrational.