George Soros and Southeast Asia
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retold in 3 talks
Uses Soros's currency speculation that caused suffering in Southeast Asia as an example of 'abstract violence', financial acts experienced by victims as pseudo-natural catastrophes.
≤2000talks it is told in, per year2026
As told 3
“George Soros... engaged in speculations... thereby causing great suffering in Southeast Asia... This is today's abstract violence at its purest.”Slavoj Žižek 一 Violence2008-01-10 · 1:45:33
“the morning is chocolate, the afternoon it's laxative”
“soros stands for the most ruthless financial speculative exploitation, combined with its counteragent, the humanitarian worry about catastrophic social consequences of the unbridled market economy.”
What it carries
one story, many jobs: the ideas this anecdote is deployed to argue, one tally mark per use (an idea page shows the same relation from the other end, as its shelf of stories)
contents · one story, 3 jobsuses
abstract violence
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chocolate laxative
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the coincidence of opposites (coincidentia oppositorum)
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Its cast and sources
populated by
Thomas More1Nora Barnacle1William T. Vollmann1Jason Robards1Oleg Naumov1Elizabeth Wright1Auguste Comte1Ken Livingstone1
alongside works
Every retelling 3
Slavoj Žižek 一 Violence2008-01-10 · 1:45:33
Uses Soros's currency speculation that caused suffering in Southeast Asia as an example of 'abstract violence', financial acts experienced by victims as pseudo-natural catastrophes., illustrating abstract violence
Soros spends the first half of the day in ruthless financial speculation ruining millions of lives, the second half giving some of it back through humanitarian programs, the chocolate/laxative structure applied to global capital: the remedy is built into the very operation that produces the harm., illustrating chocolate laxative,capitalism,humanitarian ideology
Soros spends the first half of his day in ruthless financial speculation and the second half in humanitarian activities, embodying the coincidence of the problem and its remedy., illustrating coincidence of opposites,capitalism,ideology