I fucking love jesus christ so much. i hope He knows i have his same pronouns.
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βAll extremes of feeling are allied with madness.β
V. Woolf; Orlando
V. Woolf; Orlando
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"But life involves before everything else eating and drinking, a habitation, clothing, and many other things. The first historical act is thus the production of the means to satisfy these needs, the production of material life itself... The second fundamental point is that as soon as a need is satisfied new needs are made..."
K. Marx & F. Engels; The German Ideology
K. Marx & F. Engels; The German Ideology
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"The incomplete character of every totality necessarily leads us to abandon, as a terrain of analysis, the premise of 'society' as a sutured and self-defined totality. 'Society' is not a valid object of discourse. There is no single underlying principle fixing-and hence constituting- the whole field of differences."
E. Laclau & C. Mouffe; Beyond the positivity of the social: Antagonism and Hegemony
E. Laclau & C. Mouffe; Beyond the positivity of the social: Antagonism and Hegemony
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"Signs also are particular, material things; and, as we have seen, any item of nature, technology, or consumption can become a sign, acquiring in the process a meaning that goes beyond its given particularity. A sign does not simply exist as a part of reality β it reflects and refracts another reality. Therefore, it may distort that reality or be true to it, or may perceive it from a special point of view, and so forth."
~V. Voloshinov; The study of Ideologies and Philosophy of Language
~V. Voloshinov; The study of Ideologies and Philosophy of Language
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