1. To put it with some irony, I do not even agree with Homer where Homer agrees with me: he refers approvingly to my endorsement of Alain Badiou's motto, “Those who are here are from here,” which seems to me now problematic, at least in its abstract form—as I was reminded during a visit to the West Bank, every Jewish settler would have wholeheartedly supported this motto.

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4. The same goes for its obscene obverse, tantra, a network of practices and rituals that was systematized into a coherent dark, violent, and dangerous cult by the British colonizers.