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Renata Salecl - A Passion for Ignorance

Machinic Unconscious Happy Hour

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Why Is It Necessary to Study Philosophy?

I think that today with all the distractions we don't deal with this necessary anxiety Right. Necessarily in front of the unknown in the way that helps us kind of, let's say, expand our mind. And I think that we are losing that and that's something that we unfortunately now have to fight with all kinds of self binding mechanisms such as leaving your mobile phone at home or switching off when you're writing. We can immediately disappear but then switch when we feel uncomfortable in front of a complicated text. That's what is a real problem today with our concentration and also enduring anxiety because anxiety is also something positive.

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