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God in Pain: Inversions of
Apocalypse is interesting for95 reasons.
1) iek says God is in pain.
2) Gn!evi" arges t#at $t.
Agstine can #elp s elde
capitalis%.
&) iek sggests t#at adopting
an apocalyptic stance is 't#e
only (ay to keep a cool #ead.*) Gn!evi" tells s #o(
t#eology is necessary for t#e
revoltion
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95)iek adds+ 't#e fiasco of
God is still t#e fiasco of God.
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God in Pain
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God in PainInversions of Apocalypse
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Boris Gunjevi's chapters translated from the
Croatian by Ellen Elias-Bursa
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7opyrig#t 8 21 y $lavo! iek and oris Gn!evi"
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if t#e placard #ad een sidelined and relegated to a corner t#ere (as still+ so ,enin felt+ a
clear lack of nderstanding %anifested in t#e sloganVs in (idespread se.
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(#ic# #ar% t#e proletariat+ #e sets t#e cine%a apart fro% t#e ot#er t(o. 7o%pared to going
to a tavern and drinking oneself into a stpor+ or attending c#rc# (#ere t#e sa%e dra%a is
perpetally perfor%ed ot of #ait and %onotonos rital+
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;ocalt calls t#e 'tec#nologies of t#e self. 3evoltion (it#ot virte is necessarily cag#t
et(een a violent orgiastic lnacy and reacratiEed statist atis%.
e are t#erefore
left (it# only a fe( options: t#e tavern+ t#e c#rc#+ t#e cine%a . . . r '
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#en political opponents roke into #is #o%e Cfro%
(#ic# #e #ad fled in #aste+ leaving everyt#ing e#ind)+ t#ey fond portions of #is %anscript
in a travelling trnk.
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Introdction
;or a
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SI a% eginning to see and #ear strange t#ings+ not voices e@actly+ t as t#og# so%eone
eside %e (ere %ttering+ Sook+ ook+ ookY T
>#atKs t#e %eaning of t#is ookU I %st divert %y %ind.
I (ent ot in searc# of diversion+ I #it pon a fneral.
$o #e attends t#e fneral of distant relative+ re%aining in t#e ce%etery+ #e ne@pectedly
over#ears t#e cynical frivolos conversation of t#e dead:
And #o( it #appened I donKt kno(+ t I egan to #ear t#ins of all sorts eing said. At first I
did not pay attention to it+ t treated it (it# conte%pt. t t#e conversation (ent on. I
#eard %ffled sonds as t#og# t#e speakersK %ot#s (ere covered (it# a pillo(+ and at
t#e sa%e ti%e t#ey (ere distinct and very near. I ca%e to %yself+ sat p and egan listening
attentively.
e discovers fro% t#ese e@c#anges t#at #%an consciosness goes on for so%e ti%e after
t#e deat# of t#e p#ysical ody+ lasting ntil total deco%position+ (#ic# t#e deceased
c#aracters associate (it# t#e a(fl grgling ono%atopoeia+ Sook. T ne of t#e%
co%%ents:
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