"In a determinate Notion, universality and particularity immediately coexist; that is, the notion’s universality immediately “passes” into its particular determination. The problem here is not how to reconcile or “synthesize” the opposites (the universal and the particular aspects of a Notion), but, on the contrary, how to pull them apart, how to ( Read more... )

      "Dialectic proper means that concrete historical struggles are at the same time struggles for the absolute itself; that each specific epoch, as it were, has its own ontology."
       - Slavoj Zizek

Sometimes Zizek amazes me... in the passage below he comes close to sounding a key aspect of OOO thought: the Split Object!


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"Greece is not an exception. It is one of the main testing grounds for a new socio-economic model of potentially unlimited application: a depoliticised technocracy in which bankers and other experts are allowed to demolish democracy. By saving Greece from its so-called saviours, we also save Europe itself."
          - Slavoj Zizek

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"Black will always have something melancholy in it..."
    - Edmund Burke

"We feel free because we lack the very language to articulate our unfreedom."
     - Slavoj Zizek


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“To be strange is to be foreign, alien - a stranger is a person whose home is elsewhere. ...But I cannot explain the mystery."
      - V. S. Naipaul

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