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Cover of How We Got Here: Melville Plus Nietzsche Divided by the Square Root of (Allan) Bloom Times Žižek (Squared) Equals Bannon

How We Got Here: Melville Plus Nietzsche Divided by the Square Root of (Allan) Bloom Times Žižek (Squared) Equals Bannon

by David Shields

2 highlights Last annotated: July 11, 2025

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When the spectacle [of society] stops talking about something for three days, it’s as if it didn’t exist. The spectacle has gone on to talk about something else, and now that is what exists. The practical consequences are enormous.” The disappearance of history is the primary source of the power of the spectacle. ^ref-4551

(Biden is never not boring.) ^ref-14296

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