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• Alain Badiou
  ...been a key influence on Žižek in his attempt to [[think]] a political [[project]] that constitutes an “alternative to [[global]] [[capitalism]] and its [ ...mber of levels. First, it allows a clear [[distinction]] between radical [[emancipatory politics]] and the predominant status quo politics: whereas the former is a
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• Repeating Lenin (Essay)
  ...administration of the social matters. This was for Lenin no theoretical [[project]] for some distant future — in October 1917, Lenin claimed that "we can a ...rld-wide conditions, the Leninist gesture of reinventing the revolutionary project in the conditions of [[imperialism]] and colonialism, more precisely: after
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• Human Rights and Its Discontents
  ...f [[moralistic]] victimization it is sufficient to compare it to the great emancipatory movements based on the universalist moral appeal epitomized by the names Ga ...[capitalist]] system is no longer even imaginable as a serious political [[project]], but nonetheless unable to [[renounce]] their attachment to the prospect
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• When the Party Commits Suicide
  ...lex]] than the [[image]] of [[Stalin]] ruthlessly realizing his demoniac [[project]] of [[total]] domination: the great purges are put in their context, rende ...he holocaust. Third, it serves to cast a shadow on every radical political project, i.e. to reinforce the Denkverbot against the radical political [[imaginati
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• Seize the Day: Lenin's Legacy
  ...he progressive movement is [[being]] compelled to reinvent its [[whole]] [[project]]. What tends to be forgotten, however, is that a similar experience gave [ ...rs — arises directly from the ashes of 1914. It wasn't a [[theoretical]] project for some distant [[future]]: in October 1917, Lenin claimed that "we can at
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• A Plea for Leninist Intolerance
  ...administration of the social matters. This was for Lenin no theoretical [[project]] for some distant [[future]]. In October 1917, Lenin claimed that "we can ...orldwide conditions, the Leninist gesture of reinventing the revolutionary project in the conditions of [[imperialism]] and colonialism. Or, more precisely, s
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• The Stellar Parallax: The Traps of Ontological Difference
  ...itutionalizing the incessant short circuit of freedom and cruelty puts the project of modernity to its most extreme trial. /.../ the revolution itself inflict ...ionary Terror is not the rather obvious insight into how the revolutionary project involved the unilateral direct assertion of abstract Universal Reason, and
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• The Obscenity of Human Rights: Violence as Symptom
  ...it remained an unfinished [[project]], so our task should be to bring this project to completion; (2) the one associated with [[Adorno]]'s and [[Horkheimer]]' ...ounts to the implicit [[prohibition]] of elaborating a positive collective project of socio-political transformation.
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• Over the Rainbow Coalition!
  ...uld rather directly display the [[self]]-refuting [[nature]] of Gibson's [[project]]. That is to say, let us imagine the film without subtitles shown in a lar ...ristian "radical abolitionist" who came closest to introducing the radical emancipatory-egalitarian logic into the US political landscape:
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• The Iraqi MacGuffin
  ...ican [[society]] itself (i.e., the disciplining of whatever remains of its emancipatory potentials)? We should therefore be very careful not to fight false battles ...-thematic of (and confrontation with) "terrorism" as (part of) a POLITICAL PROJECT, which, of course, in no way implies the agreement with it. It is worth to
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• The Two Totalitarianisms
  ...o recognise the [[tragedy]] of the [[October Revolution]]: both its unique emancipatory potential and the [[historical necessity]] of its [[Stalinist]] outcome. W ...at claimed to focus on the conditions of the failure of the [[emancipatory project]] abstain from analysing the nightmare of ‘[[actually existing socialism]
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• Attempts to Escape the Logic of Capitalism
  ...istic]] depoliticisation is the retreat of the Marxist historico-political project. A couple of decades ago, people were still discussing the political [[futu
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• Frankfurt School
  ...ural evolution. The simultaneously empirical and transcendental nature of emancipatory knowledge becomes the foundation stone of critical theory. ...edu/faculty/kellner/illumina%20Folder/ Illuminations - The Critical Theory Project]
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• The Free World ... of Slums
  ...of only preventing suffering implicitly prohibited a positive collective [[project]] for social and political transformation. ...the “[[symbolic class]]” inherently [[split]], enabling us to make an emancipatory wager on a coalition between the slum dwellers and the “progressives” o
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• Liberation Hurts
  ...answer to this is simply that we should return to our old welfare state [[project]], but that there are still tough questions to be asked.<br><br> ...le doing this, but very few of them. People who are committed to a certain project. Really, it's tragic.<br><br>
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• The Iraqui MacGuffin
  ...ican [[society]] itself (i.e., the disciplining of whatever remains of its emancipatory potentials)? We should therefore be very careful not to fight false battles ...-thematic of (and confrontation with) "terrorism" as (part of) a POLITICAL PROJECT, which, of course, in no way implies the agreement with it. It is worth to
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• I am a fighting atheist
  ...] parallel. Just as Lenin was forced to reformulate the entire socialist [[project]], we are in a similar situation. What Lenin did, we should do today, at an ...it's like to be a black lesbian mother, and so on. Now this may sound very emancipatory. But the moment we accept this logic, we enter a kind of apartheid. In a si
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• The Last Hegelian: An Interview with Slavoj Zizek
  ...just to do it. There are very few people who are committed to a certain [[project]]. ...s that Adorno and Horkheimer's [[formal]] logic was correct. The [[whole]] project in The Dialectic of Enlightenment is "let's paint the ultimate outcome of t
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• Communism
  ...y has the [[idea]] of communism been raised to the level of an authentic [[project]] in his [[political]] [[philosophy]]. Deemed a dissident in ex-Yugoslavia, ...and it is here that we find the ground upon which [[Emancipatory politics|emancipatory]] struggles must be fought (and won).
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• Against the Populist Temptation
  The [[French]] and [[Dutch]] [[NO]] to the [[project]] of [[Europe]]an [[constitution]] was a clear-cut [[case]] of what in the ...er]] presupposed to be able to meet it. Does the proper [[revolution]]ary/emancipatory [[political act]] not move beyond this horizon of demands? The [[revolutio
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