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“Gramsci used to say 'Pessimism of the intellect, optimism of the will'. What he meant is: understand how the bloody system works. What confronts you? The fact that the terrain is not favourable to your project. Understand that, even if it disillusions you, even if it makes you awake at night. Understand it. Then you're in a position to say 'Well what is.... what can change? Where are the emergent forces? Where are the cracks and the contradictions? What are the elements in popular consciousness one could mobilise for a different political program?”

MobilisationAntonio GramsciPopular Consciousness
Author:Stuart Hall
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“Mais si le leader a la conscience claire de sa vision et de ses ambitions stratégiques, il n’a pas encore résolu les enjeux liés au consensus, à la mobilisation, aux stratégies individuelles et individualistes. Son défi, qui aussi une nécessité, c’est d’éviter d’être Hercule aux douze travaux ; c’est de construire des portefeuilles judicieusement répartis dans le court, le moyen et le long terme, comme je disais, antérieurement : « Avoir un pied dans le passé qui n’est jamais tout à fait mort, un autre dans le présent, la tête dans l’avenir… ».”

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Author:Abdou Karim GUEYE Ecrivain Le Coeur et l'Esprit
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“There are many ways of being witty and intelligent - almost as many as of not being, They are often the same. Like free electrons on the planet of the apes, with a time window on to a parallel universe. The only solution to the mechanization of man is Ie devenir-machine: becoming-machine. Warhol had seen this. He was the apotheosis of the machinic: total automatism, all trace of the human gone. The dream of the virtual era, by contrast, is to wrest the machine from machinicity, to make it intelligent and soulful, 'interactive', to turn it into an associate 'anthropoid' with the same affective and intellectual, sexual and reproductive functions - and, lastly, the same viruses and melancholia.”

IntelligenceDehumanizationLiteralness
Book:Cool Memories V: 2000 - 2004
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“The limitations of literalness and an excessive reliance upon reciprocity as a principle for constructing an ultimate environment can result either in an overcontrolling, stilted perfectionism or "works righteousness" or in their opposite, an abasing sense of badness embraced because of mistreatment, neglect or the apparent disfavor of significant others.”

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Book:Stages of Faith: The Psychology of Human Development and the Quest for Meaning
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