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IN THE LAND OF THE GLUTTONS: WHERE BELLY IS THE MIND

Courtsy: Wikimedia Commons a painting, Gula (Gluttony),  by the Flemish painter Pieter Bruegel the Elder This is Visceraland! The land of gluttons! The land of voracious appetite; appetite for food, money, human flesh and soul, other material possessions, but not ideal ones. In the land of the gluttons there is no place for thinking, contemplations, inventing, ...

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Slavoj Žižek: In The Future We'll Outsource Sex

Romance is maybe not yet totally dead, but its forthcoming death is signalled by object-gadgets which promise to deliver excessive pleasure but which effectively reproduce only the lack itself. The latest fashion is the Stamina Training Unit, a counterpart to the vibrator: a masturbatory device that resembles a battery-powered light (so we're not embarrassed when carrying ...