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taiwanese grass jelly herb (3.1/5) (cooling, bitter mint sensation that feels light but has an intense climate. apparently, when steeped with agar agar or gelatin, it can thicken into a jelly. however, i would prefer to drink the herb as is.) "And surely you have seen, in the darkness of the most innermost rooms of these huge buildings, to which sunlight never penetrates, how the gold lead of a sliding door or screen will pick up a distant glimmer from the garden, then suddenly send forth an ethereal glow, a faint golden light cast into the enveloping darkness. How in such a dark place, gold draws so much light to itself is a mystery to me. Modern man, in his well-lit house, knows nothing of the beauty of gold, but those who lived in the dark houses of the past were not merely captivated by its beauty, they also knew its practical value, for gold in these dim rooms, must have served the function of a reflector. Were it not for shadows, there would be no beauty." Tanizaki'...

Kirn

"Post-socialism has become the mainstream doxa, but I suggest we call it by its real name: "national-liberalism". The latter has not only held the keys to the interpretation of recent history but has also become the hegemonic ideological backbone for the implementation of authoritarian capitalism. Its major coordinates were based on an openly negative modality, which entails a substitution of the prefix "post-" with the prefix "anti-". The real negative starting point for the dominant doxa is based on anti-Yugoslav(ism), anti-Marxism, and anti-socialism/-communism. Needless to say, the transitional discourse, or the "transitology", has taken an openly apologetic stance towards the transition to capitalism with a nationalist face." 

-Gal Kirn, Partisan Ruptures: Self-Management, Market Reform, and the Spectre of Socialist Yugoslavia

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