Search results

• Semiotics
  ...] which semiotics attempts to [[analyse]] and so [[identify]] the systemic rules accepted by all the participants. ...of semiotic methods to reveal different levels of meaning and, sometimes, hidden motivations has led some to [[demonization|demonise]] elements of the subje
  60 KB (8,683 words) - 22:58, 20 May 2019
• The One Measure of True Love Is: You Can Insult the Other
  ...nce, you are in an open situation. Today we can no longer simply apply old rules. We are engaged in paradoxes, which offer no immediate way out. In this sen ...y"/></td></tr><tr><td class="bodyp">The problem for me is how unfreedom is hidden, concealed in precisely what is presented to us as new freedoms. I think th
  36 KB (5,977 words) - 21:58, 21 May 2006
• Repeating Lenin (Essay)
  ...ne can indulge in the jargonistic [[analyses]] of the modern art, with the hidden assurance that one is somehow retaining the link with the radical revolutio ...are really no common denominators in this initial struggle for discursive rules, and what we end up with is the inevitable comedy of each side muttering ir
  164 KB (26,048 words) - 22:09, 20 May 2019
• The Matrix, or, Two Sides of Perversion
  ...elementary a belief into an "Other of the Other", into another Other who, hidden behind the Other of the explicit social texture, programs (what appears to ...nd is brought to extreme in quantum physics, where we are dealing with the rules/laws which function, although they cannot ever be retranslated into our exp
  64 KB (10,730 words) - 00:53, 21 May 2019
• Human Rights and Its Discontents
  ...] that labor, hard work, is originally an indecent criminal activity to be hidden from the public eye. Significantly, we ask ourselves a simple question: Whe ...ur politically correct times. Are not the politically correct prohibitions rules which in one way or another are to be violated in the seduction process? Is
  95 KB (16,281 words) - 23:43, 24 May 2019
• The Interpassive Subject
  ...vely not only in the spectacle, but more and more in establishing the very rules of the spectacle… Is, however, the other side of this interactivity not i ...resolutely feminine [[nature]] of what Hegel calls "Reason": "Look for the hidden Reason (which realizes itself in the [[apparent]] confusion of egotistic di
  54 KB (8,829 words) - 00:46, 21 May 2019
• Woman is One of the Names-of-the-Father
  ...ody]] to this limit-we [[project]] into the personalized notion of God the hidden, unfathomable [[cause]] of all that cannot be [[understood]] and explained ...as full acceptance of the fact that I am really there, bound by the prison rules, opens up a space for true hope.<ref>This paradox points towards the delusi
  32 KB (5,329 words) - 03:33, 21 May 2019
• For a Leftist Appropriation of the European Legacy
  ...ude: the attempt to de-antagonize politics by way of formulating the clear rules to be obeyed so that the agonic procedure of litigation does not explode in ..., i.e. the gentrification of politics proper in regulated [[agonism]] (the rules of elections and representative democracy, etc.); the totalitarian Master i
  51 KB (7,820 words) - 07:36, 24 May 2019
• When the Party Commits Suicide
  ...power structure which directly treats ITSELF as an anonymous, [[secret]], hidden [[body]]. As such, the Khmer Rouge [[regime]] was a kind of [[political]] e ...e highest point of the terror in the Fall of 1937, the implicit discursive rules were broken by Stalin himself: in an all-against-all orgy of [[destruction]
  63 KB (10,138 words) - 03:25, 21 May 2019
• The Iraq War: Where is The True Danger
  ...he future of [[international community]] which is at stake now — the new rules which will regulate it, what the new world order will be. What is going on ...n the midst of a "silent revolution," in the course of which the unwritten rules which determine the most elementary international logic are changing? The U
  29 KB (4,655 words) - 00:47, 21 May 2019
• From 'Passionate Attachments' to Dis-Identification
  ...," relies for its performative power on the preestablished set of symbolic rules and/or norms. ...xposure and [[self-transparency]], i.e. the [[awareness]] that there is no hidden [[content]], makes the subject even more enigmatic. Sometimes, being totall
  42 KB (6,841 words) - 08:07, 24 May 2019
• Move the Underground!
  ...ation was that the soldiers were not properly taught the Geneva convention rules about how to treat war prisoners - as if one has to be taught not to humili ...America: the standard escape route led to Northern Italy, where they were hidden for some time in some remote monasteries (or, in some cases, even in the Ci
  33 KB (5,457 words) - 19:38, 20 May 2019
• Opera
  ...f <i>homo sacer</i>, i.e. ethnic-[[religious]] conflicts which violate the rules of [[universal]] [[human rights]], do not count as wars proper, and call fo ...tempted to risk the hypothesis that <i>La clemenza</i> is the obverse, the hidden truth, of <i>The Magic Flute</i>, its necessary shadowy double, the obscene
  52 KB (8,901 words) - 20:26, 20 May 2019
• Homo Sacer as the Object of the Discourse of the University
  ...e 1968. Instead of the one [[symbolic]] [[Order]] with its set of a priori rules which [[guarantee]] social [[cohesion]], we get the [[matrix]] of the passa ...it into the [[subject]] ($). The "[[truth]]" of the university discourse, hidden beneath the bar, of course, is [[power]], i.e. the Master-[[Signifier]]: th
  14 KB (2,208 words) - 23:37, 24 May 2019
• Passion In The Era of Decaffeinated Belief
  ...which we belong (recall the proverbial non-believing Jew who obeys kosher rules "out of respect for tradition"). "I do not really believe in it, it is just ...r profound self-realization...</i> Exemplary is here Donald Spoto's <i>The Hidden Jesus</i>, a New Age tainted "liberal" reading of Christianity, where we ca
  18 KB (3,007 words) - 20:51, 7 June 2006
• The Act and Its Vicissitudes
  ...]/public [[text]] and its obscene initiatic supplement: in it, there is no hidden untold story. In this precise sense, Christianity is the religion of Revela ...en more pointedly, in more pathetic [[terms]], what God reveals is not his hidden power, but only his impotence as such.
  32 KB (5,435 words) - 00:30, 21 May 2019
• The Iraqi MacGuffin
  ...spectors were searching for [[them]] in [[Iraq]], they were expected to be hidden in the most disparate and improbable places, from the (rather [[logical]] [ ...ng HERE as the result of the "[[war on terror]]." Instead of talking about hidden conspiratorial agendas, one should shift the focus onto what is going on, o
  52 KB (8,632 words) - 00:48, 21 May 2019
• Heiner Mueller Out of Joint
  ...e invention of the desire called Utopia in the first place, along with new rules for the fantasizing or daydreaming of such a thing — a set of [[narrative ...es for quotidian existence: how does one get [[married]]? What are the new rules of courting? How does one celebrate a birthday? How does one get buried? It
  55 KB (8,847 words) - 23:21, 24 May 2019
• Objet a as Inherent Limit to Capitalism
  ...egard]] to its very notion, non-absolute? There is no democracy without a hidden, presupposed elitism. Democracy is, by definition, not "global"; it HAS to ...'s "decentralized" capitalism). So the new society of the multitude which rules itself will be like today's cognitivist notion of the ego as a pandemonium
  28 KB (4,350 words) - 20:13, 20 May 2019
• Some Politically Incorrect Reflections on Violence in France
  ...om]] of [[choice]], when the only choice is the one between playing by the rules and ([[self]]-)destructive violence, a violence which is almost exclusively ...i>passage à l'acte</i>. As such, these outbursts enable us to discern the hidden obverse of the much-praised American individualism and self-reliance: the [
  74 KB (12,129 words) - 10:19, 1 June 2019

View (previous 20 | next 20) (20 | 50 | 100 | 250 | 500)