#History
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Singapura independente à revelia
Em 1965 o parlamento malaio expulsou Singapura da federação por 126 a 0. Lee Kuan Yew tinha lutado pela fusão e anunciou a independência chorando.
We don't know where we are: no hologram for the present
Today we lack the kind of totalizing hologram that capitalism retroactively imposed on all prior history once it contingently emerged. We are in the interval.
Every epoch reinvents its Shakespeare
Shakespeare's greatness is his ontological incompleteness: each epoch legitimately re-constitutes Hamlet from its own position.
T.S. Eliot: a new work rewrites the whole past
Eliot's retroactive causation: a radically new artwork reorganizes the entire tradition that precedes it — retroactivity at the level of ontology.
The Holocaust: reality vs. the Real
The Real of the Holocaust is non-negotiable; its reality — the meaning installed in collective life — can still be rewritten by ideological shifts.
Modernity begins after Renaissance (Pascal)
Modernity begins not with the Renaissance but with the Pascalian cut: a subjective interior facing a gray, infinite cosmos.