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eightyonekilograms:

raginrayguns:

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shlevy:

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raginrayguns:

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transhumanoid:

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the telos of the anime boy is to be an anime girl

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you could put this in a Zizek talk. it\u2019s on par with him saying that dagny taggart/john galt is a lesbian relationship. Like ok

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Holy shit did he really say that? What was the context?

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Zizek - The Actuality of Ayn Rand:

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What Rand was not aware of was that the upright, uncompromising masculine figures with a will of steel with whom she was so fascinated, are effectively figures of the feminine subject liberated from the deadlocks of hysteria. It is well known that a thwarted (disavowed) homosexual libidinal economy forms the basis of military community - it is for that very reason that the Army opposes so adamandy the admission of gays in its ranks. Mutatis mutandis, Rand\u2019s ridiculously exaggerated adoration of strong male figures betrays the underlying disavowed lesbian economy, i.e., the fact that Dominique and Roark, or Dagny and Gait, are effectively lesbian couples.

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Even though this quote is ridiculous, I actually liked this article because he at least seems to have read the book and thought about the themes. Although I guess that shows how low my standards have become for writing about Ayn Rand.

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> anime

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> teleology

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> genderbending

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> Zizek

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> Ayn Rand

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> arguing about fictional characters and the definition of \u201clesbian\u201d

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> getting mad at lit crit

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This is the ideal Tumblr thread. You may not like it, but this is what peak performance looks like.

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