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Holocaust is a paradigm of modern bureaucratic rationality and was not an aberration but in keeping with everything we know about our civilization, its guiding spirit, its priorities, its immanent vision of the world. Pre-modern pogroms were too inefficient to allow for the systematic murder of millions of people that occurred in the holocaust.

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Politics is contrasted with power in this: while power is the ability to get things done, politics is the ability to decide which things need to be done.

Postmodernity is modernity without illusions.

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The Refugee is, in modern society, treated as 'human waste' forced into camps and never free from the growing sense of transience and provisional nature of any settlement.

Security is the other side of insecurity, which is not characterized by tranquility, but by boredom.

Speed is no longer a means but a milieu, a substance saturating the world into which more and more action is transferred.