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i understand. i didnt think so.. vimothy, you are fundamentally for liberalism, democracy (electoral), free markets?? this is my impression. if not, i apologize.. i understand this is a tricky question.

fair enough which argument? my empirical construction (a weak one, clearly, but this would take a serious amount of time to adequately do) of communism v fascism is not valid under the badiouian construction.. here you are right.. i think i said this. but i DO believe that even in terms of...

‘“[J]ustice” cannot be […] a State programme. “Justice” is the qualification of an egalitarian moment of politics in actu. The trouble with most doctrines of justice is their will to define what it is, followed by attempts to realise it. But justice, which is the philosophical name for the...

you know, maybe im simply in the wrong place? does dissensus have some kind of basic or general political orientation? not being patronizing here.. simply dont know. dont come here often enough really. it all depends on your definition of all those words: illiberal, undemocratic...

i grew up in Yugoslavia. i was young when we left (1991, my father is a serb, we were living in what is now croatia, you can put it together i think). ask my father, or, for fucks sake, as anyone in my family how fucking HORRIBLE it was living there. people lived quite happily, in peace... free...

wow. thats crazy!!! where do you get this stuff? an impulse sure, but an equal impulse? maybe im completely nuts, but you guys are terrifying. no wonder i never come here.

EDIT: there was some name calling here.. sorry about that. was stupid. your conception of Good/Evil is a very basic humanistic moral one.. it has NOTHING to do with badiou. ill try again.. "The real question underlying the question of Evil is the following: What is the Good? All my philosophy...

badious hypothesis is that the forms of communism that took place, and failed, in 20th century were a betrayal of the communist hypothesis.. what youre saying is too easy.. youre certainly right, as far as im concerned, with the criticism towards State Communism .. but to claim that fascist...

the two does stand for infinity (an infinite dialectical tension, mao's 'unity-criticism-unity'). im not sure youre understanding the concept, or im not understanding you. the imperative "keep going!" is infinity against conservative totality and cynicism. this does not leave any room for...

so this is what stuck out most after reading the whole thread. if you think that "standing athwart history, yelling stop" is what zizek has to do, then im really not sure you are understanding the ethical imperative of zizek, badiou. i have to paraphrase here, too lazy to find the pages and...

what do you like about this mms?

wow... ive got a friend of my wifes who just stayed over our place , we were talkin bout dance music and i mentioned tony addis.. and he knew him! was saying how he'd come inside his studio and pot smoke would just engulf him.. i wonder what tonys up to now? any thoughts on moody boys...

ha! thanks dharry, GEMM'd it for a bit cheaper.. any thoughts on this LP?

anyone??? im dyin..

hey whats going on with woebot.tv? sorry if this has been talked about elsewhere.. is there more to come?

holy shit.. painful