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For Luther judgment was a real problem, because everyone gets off on judgment, according to Luther. In fact you have to put a restraining order, a gag order, on those, and that's everyone, who want to judge everyone and everything at top speed. So that when you have a rush to judgment,... it's also the rush of judgment.... I'd like us to consider the libidinal investment that Luther sees in judgment and legislates against.

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Stupidity exceeds and undercuts materiality, runs loose, wins a few rounds, recedes, gets carried home in a clutch of denial-and returns. Essentially linked to the inexhaustible, stupidity is also that which fatigues knowledge and wears down history.

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Neither a pathology nor an index as such of moral default, stupidity is nonetheless linked to the most dangerous failures of human endeavor.

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According to Luther everyone judges everyone. This is because there's an intense desire to be judging. Then those of us on the masochistic side of things want to be judged. Thus we publish. We teach. We learn. We beg to be judged and decimated.

Avital Ronell

Avital Ronell

Avital Ronell

Born: April 15, 1952 (age 74)

Bio: Avital Ronell is an American philosopher who contributes to the fields of continental philosophy, literary studies, psychoanalysis, feminist philosophy, political philosophy, and ethics.

Known for:

The telephone book (1989)
The Test Drive (2005)
Loser Sons: Politics and Authority (2012)
Stupidity (2002)
Fighting Theory (2010)

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