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Slavoj Žižek
“When we are shown scenes of starving children in Africa, with a call for us to do something to help them, the underlying ideological message is something like: "Don't think, don't politicize, forget about the true causes of their poverty, just act, contribute money, so that you will not have to think!”
Slavoj Zizek

Ahmed Sofa
“একটি সমাজের সর্বাঙ্গীন গতির নাম রাজনীতি এবং সংস্কৃতি রাজনীতির রস-রক্ত, এই বোধে কোন রাজনৈতিক দল কিংবা লোকমান্য নেতার মন সিঞ্চিত হয়েছে, তেমন কোন দল বা ব্যক্তিত্বের নাম আজও জানা হয়নি। রাজনৈতিক দলগুলোর সংস্কৃতিবিমুখতা, কর্মীদের চেতনাহীনতা, সংস্কৃতি এবং রাজনীতিকে দু’টি আলাদা আলাদা ক্ষেত্র বলে চিহ্নিত করল। ফরাসি লেখক আলফাস দোঁদের একটি গল্পের কথা মনে পড়ছে। ফরাসিরা যুদ্ধে মার খেয়েছে, গল্পের নায়ক খুবই আশাহত হয়ে পড়েছে, আরেকজন তাঁকে উপদেশ দিচ্ছে ফরাসি সাহিত্য পড়ার। তার মানে ফরাসি সাহিত্যের মধ্যে এমন কিছু প্রাণদায়িনী উপকরণ রয়েছে, যার প্রভাবে নায়ক যুদ্ধে পরাজয়ের হতাশা কাটিয়ে উঠতে পারবে। পুরোপুরি না হোক, আংশিকভাবেও যদি আমাদের জাতি এই মনোভঙ্গি আয়ত্ত করতে না পারে, তাহলে বলতে হয় আমাদের বর্বর-দশা এখনও কাটেনি।”
আহমদ ছফা, সাম্প্রতিক বিবেচনা: বুদ্ধিবৃত্তির নতুন বিন্যাস

George R.R. Martin
“Some old wounds never truly heal, and bleed again at the slightest word.”
George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

“Coming home is terrible
whether the dogs lick your face or not;
whether you have a wife
or just a wife-shaped loneliness waiting for you.
Coming home is terribly lonely,
so that you think
of the oppressive barometric pressure
back where you have just come from
with fondness,
because everything's worse
once you're home.

You think of the vermin
clinging to the grass stalks,
long hours on the road,
roadside assistance and ice creams,
and the peculiar shapes of
certain clouds and silences
with longing because you did not want to return.
Coming home is
just awful.

And the home-style silences and clouds
contribute to nothing
but the general malaise.
Clouds, such as they are,
are in fact suspect,
and made from a different material
than those you left behind.
You yourself were cut
from a different cloudy cloth,
returned,
remaindered,
ill-met by moonlight,
unhappy to be back,
slack in all the wrong spots,
seamy suit of clothes
dishrag-ratty, worn.

You return home
moon-landed, foreign;
the Earth's gravitational pull
an effort now redoubled,
dragging your shoelaces loose
and your shoulders
etching deeper the stanza
of worry on your forehead.
You return home deepened,
a parched well linked to tomorrow
by a frail strand of…

Anyway . . .

You sigh into the onslaught of identical days.
One might as well, at a time . . .

Well . . .
Anyway . . .
You're back.

The sun goes up and down
like a tired whore,
the weather immobile
like a broken limb
while you just keep getting older.
Nothing moves but
the shifting tides of salt in your body.
Your vision blears.
You carry your weather with you,
the big blue whale,
a skeletal darkness.

You come back
with X-ray vision.
Your eyes have become a hunger.
You come home with your mutant gifts
to a house of bone.
Everything you see now,
all of it: bone."

A poem by - Eva H.D.”
Eva H.D.
tags: art, poem, poems

Slavoj Žižek
“What would be my, how should I call it, spontaneous attitude towards the universe? It's a very dark one. The first thesis would have been a kind of total vanity: there is nothing, basically. I mean it quite literally, like… ultimately there are just some fragments, some vanishing things. If you look at the universe, it's one big void. But then how do things emerge? Here, I feel a kind of spontaneous affinity with quantum physics, where, you know, the idea there is that universe is a void, but a kind of a positively charged void. And then particular things appear when the balance of the void is disturbed. And I like this idea of spontaneous very much that the fact that it's just not nothing… Things are out there. It means something went terribly wrong… that what we call creation is a kind of a cosmic imbalance, cosmic catastrophe, that things exist by mistake. And I'm even ready to go to the end and to claim that the only way to counteract it is to assume the mistake and go to the end. And we have a name for this. It's called love. Isn't love precisely this kind of a cosmic imbalance? I was always disgusted with this notion of "I love the world" universal love. I don't like the world. I don't know how… Basically, I'm somewhere in between “I hate the world” or “I'm indifferent towards it.” But the whole of reality, it's just it. It's stupid. It is out there. I don't care about it. Love, for me, is an extremely violent act. Love is not “I love you all.” Love means I pick out something, and it's, again, this structure of imbalance. Even if this something is just a small detail… a fragile individual person… I say “I love you more than anything else.” In this quite formal sense, love is evil.”
Slavoj Žižek

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