Surplus-Enjoyment: A Guide For The Non-Perplexed

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Global cooperation and controls for the greater good sound enticing when looking from the bottom up ‘for someone’ to do this but from the top down, history shows over again this is open to abuse. Despite a couple of paragraphs which I thought contained some brilliant insights, I came away thinking that most of the ideas in the book were insane. Covid was, for me, something that – even when I put this openly many people laughed at me – really demanded a new form of communism, which means not so much to vaccinate people forcefully, but to establish some kind of global healthcare – exchange of data and so on. If there are multiple source libraries, know that we pull metadata from top to bottom, so the first one might be sufficient. Nothing earth-shattering, a bit unnecessary, but for someone who still hasn't read a lot of foundational psychoanalytic texts, I enjoyed it (though I guess Zizek would say that what I really enjoyed is the fact that I enjoyed it, but I digress).

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The first part of the book is a bit of a drudge if you aren't a Marx fanatic (I am not), but Zizek has the occasionally sharp insight about climate change. Remember, one of the most disgusting events that I witnessed in the last year – I wasn’t there, I saw it on the media – was that Glasgow [COP 22] meeting against global warming. At times he seems profound, but if I replay that part of the interview his ideas, when stripped of jargon, seem commonplace. He received a Doctor of Arts in Philosophy from the University of Ljubljana and studied psychoanalysis at the University of Paris VIII with Jacques-Alain Miller and François Regnault.

Global cooperation, regulating the consumption of certain things such as oil, coal, beyond market necessities and so on. Given their persecution of political opponents and the censorship of those that don’t support it, the Biden regime is going the same way.

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If you read not only what the Russians are doing, but their ideology, it is explicitly something that one cannot but designate, not even in this purely abstract term, but a form of neo-fascism. is well known for his use of the works of 20th century French psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan in a new reading of popular culture. A "file MD5" is a hash that gets computed from the file contents, and is reasonably unique based on that content.Don’t implicitly make them guilty, as if, if you are straight, you somehow participate in oppression. When it comes to the simultaneous crises of climate change, the pandemic and the war in Ukraine, he asserts, only a cooperative global effort will steer us away from catastrophe. An exquisite, lovingly crafted meditation on plants, trees, and our place in the natural world, in the tradition of Robin Wall Kimmerer’s Braiding Sweetgrass and Annie Dillard’s Pilgrim at Tinker Creek .