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Simon Critchley Quotes: My body was a buzzing antenna into which radio waves flooded from the entire cosmos. I was the living switchboard of the universe. My skull was a magnetized globe.
         

My body was a buzzing antenna into which radio waves flooded from the entire cosmos. I was the living switchboard of the universe. My skull was a magnetized globe.


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Peace is nothing more than the regulation of the psycho-political economy of awe and reverential fear, of using the threat of terror in order to bind citizens to the circuit of their subjection.

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We might even define the human as a dynamic process produced by a series of identifications and misidentifications with animality.



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The current situation with regard to theory is odd and maybe defined by a paradox.



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