actually they were never the same without his backing vocals

ah man, call the tom-tuning cops

Eddie once enthused to me that his brother's snare sounds "like he's hitting a log", and i guess it's sort of fine if you prefer a Def Leppard sort of snare (both are good of course)

??? ok i guess but he can play the fuck out of them (i love the way they sound)

hang on though; what the fuck is wrong with someone who doesn't understand that Alex Van Halen is a great drummer

i feel like "engineered ants" would make a good subject for a John Wyndham novel

in the future historians will ask "who destroyed the BBC" and everyone will correctly answer "a bunch of absolute morons inside the BBC"

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plus, Italian dictionary gives "monstrous person or animal" ( circus freak) as sense 4 of "fenomeno", so again i don't think this has gone too severely wrong

"time of" is not a falsifying translation of "in questo interregno" though: i think you end up with a liberal translation that is still in the spirit! www.newstatesman.com/ideas/2025/1...

ah well there you go

ooh, what's the French?

tbf i do not know either whether the Italian is here used specifically in the Kantian sense or just in the normal sense of "shit that happens", but if (as I suspect) the latter then i would still maintain that the Zizek is a possible (colourful) paraphrase and not something that he "just made up"

exactly

i mean in that case surely it's the fault of the author of the book you're reviewing for not checking the quote?

(in general, claiming that Zizek is a charlatan is a very 2000s-Sensible-bloggers-coded phenomenon during which several then-prominent journalists absolutely beclowned themselves, so it might be tedious to go through it again)

meantime the Italian usually translated as "morbid symptoms" is literally "morbid phenomena", which might after all be monsters; so I judge that Zizek is definitely guilty of poetic license