“Sociology is rarely more akin to social psychoanalysis than when it confronts an object like taste, one of the most vital stakes in the struggles fought in the field of the dominant class and the field of cultural production. ” Pierre Bourdieu (A Social Critique of the Judgement of Taste) "No audience. No echo. That’s part of one’s death." Virginia Woolf (Diaries) "Once we have taken Evil into ourselves, it no longer insists that we believe in it." Franz Kafka (The the Zürau Aphorisms) "Why did we pursue it? Because it was impossible." Herbert Blau (The Dubious Spectacle) “Human cultures are about place: where to live, and home: how to live and with whom. In Western … [Read more...]
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The Inheritance
June 9, 2024 by 9 Comments
"Just as the capitalist system continuously produces and reproduces itself economically on higher and higher levels, the structure of reification progressively sinks more deeply, more fatefully and more definitively into the consciousness of man." Georg Lukacs (History and Class Consciousness) "The whole point is to show that human beings have lost their instincts, especially their sexual instinct and, more specifically still, their instinct to reproduce." Jean Laplanche (New Foundations of Psychoanalysis) “Sex is always political.” Gayle Rubin (Thinking Sex) “While it is indisputably true that sexuality is always being politicized, the ways in which having sex politicizes are … [Read more...]
