What this means in practical terms is that to truly understand a culture you must understand the language of that culture.
when you are “nowhere” physically, you are “everywhere” spiritually…Never mind if you cannot fathom this nothing, for I love it surely so much the better
It’s easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism
phrase attributed to Fredric Jameson and Slavoj Žižek, that it is easier to imagine the end of the world than it is to imagine the end of capitalism.
‘capitalist realism’: the widespread sense that not only is capitalism the only viable political and economic system, but also that it is now impossible even to imagine a coherent alternative to it.
how long can a culture persist without the new? What happens if the young are no longer capable of producing surprises?
technology is not new
culture that is merely preserved is no culture at all.
see this transformation of culture into museum pieces.
un this sense, the museum has become a only as a container not an actor of the complex society.
The ‘realism’ here is analogous to the deflationary perspective of a depressive who believes that any positive state, any hope, is a dangerous illusion.
It’s easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism
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