Excerpts from https://www.e-flux.com/journal/151/652979/on-the-recurrence-of-neoreactionaries/
‘Overproduction and overdevelopment don’t mean only an excess of products, but also an excess of prosthetic organs that the soul cannot hold.
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The Greek word for scapegoat is pharmākos, closely related to pharmakon, which means both “poison” and “remedy.” The scapegoat is the remedy to the community that also poisons the community. Girard recognized this paradox: “The victim is sacred, it is criminal to kill him—but the victim is sacred only because he is to be killed.”’