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Makers of Modern India

by Ramachandra Guha

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Jan 26, 2021 11:02AM

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Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software

by Petzold Charles

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Jan 25, 2021 01:21PM

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Fourier Analysis on Groups (Dover Books on Mathematics)

by Walter Rudin

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“The true ethical test is not only the readiness to save the victims, but also - even more, perhaps - the ruthless dedication to annihilating those who made them victims.”
― Slavoj Žižek

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“as soon as we renounce fiction and illusion, we lose reality itself; the moment we subtract fictions from reality, reality itself loses its discursive-logical consistency.”
― Slavoj Žižek, Tarrying with the Negative: Kant, Hegel, and the Critique of Ideology

tags: discourse, fiction, ideology, imaginary, philosophy, real, symbolic

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“The liberal idea of tolerance is more and more a kind of intolerance. What it means is 'Leave me alone; don't harass me; I'm intolerant towards your over-proximity.”
― Slavoj Žižek

tags: harassment, intolerance, liberalism, sexual-harassment, tolerance

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“We feel free because we lack the very language to articulate our unfreedom.”
― Slavoj Žižek, Welcome to the Desert of the Real: Five Essays on September 11 and Related Dates

tags: freedom, language

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“Just before it was dark, as they passed a great island of Sargasso weed that heaved and swung in the light sea as though the ocean were making love with something under a yellow blanket, his small line was taken by a dolphin. He saw it first when it jumped in the air, true gold in the last of the sun and bending and flapping wildly in the air.”
― Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea

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