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• Deconstruction
  ...one term of these oppositions nor the other. Much of the philosophical [[work]] of deconstruction has been devoted to developing such ideas and their imp :...[I]t has been necessary to analyze, to set to work, ''within'' the text of the [[history]] of philosophy, as well as ''within'
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• The One Measure of True Love Is: You Can Insult the Other
  ...ter-tendency, for which my good philosopher friend Alain Badiou invented a nice name: '<i xmlns:script="urn:my-script-blocks">La passion du réel</i>', the ...olence never stops violence, give peace a chance - is abstract and doesn't work here. First, because this is not a universal rule. I always ask my leftist
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• Repeating Lenin (Essay)
  ...joy at meeting again his old love. Is the [[mechanism]] of displacement at work in this dream not strictly homologous to the one elaborated by [[Fredric Ja
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• Human Rights and Its Discontents
  ...to say manual labor as opposed to so-called [[symbolic]] [[activity]] — work, not sex is more and more becoming the site of [[obscene]] indecency to be ...adition is the equation of labor with crime, the [[idea]] that labor, hard work, is originally an indecent criminal activity to be hidden from the public e
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• Reflections of Media and Politic and Cinema
  ...as in America, you would kill yourself. In the snobbism, drinking tea in a nice way, he found that live still had a meaning. ...aintaining some firm traditional structure of authority. And again, it can work both ways. What I like about fantasies is that they are always ambiguous. Y
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• Woman is One of the Names-of-the-Father
  ...s of prison life and then, within the universe governed by these rules, to work on a way to beat them. In short, inner distance and daydreaming about life
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• It Doesn't Have to be a Jew
  ...n Great [[Britain]]: what is the Thatcherist [[dream]]? It is that by hard work you win; luck is around the corner. Now of course the [[leftist]] Labor Par JA: Identification is enough for you to work hard, compete, and so on, but is it enough to succeed?
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• Hidden Prohibitions and the Pleasure Principle
  ...he time, you didn't have any [[difference]] between your [[life]] and your work. Secondly, it prevented what we would call in [[Marxist]] terms [[class]] [ ...ges does not function as foreplay. The idea is not that in the end it will work out with the dirty messages, that you will exchange addresses and meet, no.
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• When the Party Commits Suicide
  ...vative]]-[[liberal]] "Black Books" on Stalinist "[[totalitarianism]]," a [[work]] which not only meets the highest standards of historical research, but al <p>"give their signals to their like-minded friends, namely: Work in greater secrecy. If you are caught, don't confess. That's their policy.
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• The Stellar Parallax: The Traps of Ontological Difference
  ...he past (Zurich in 1919) is convincing, the return to the present "doesn't work," is not artistically fully justified. The only consistent answer is theref ...matters. The same reversal that gives rise to a new Master-Signifier is at work in ideology: in anti-Semitism, all fears (of economic crisis, of moral degr
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• Reloaded Revolutions
  ...not as a work sustained by a consistent philosophical discourse, but as a work whose very inconsistencies point towards the antagonisms of our ideological ...r. No wonder, then, that it miserably failed - and this failure provides a nice case for a simple Marxist analysis: the narrative failure, the impossibilit
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• The Iraqi MacGuffin
  ...by adding that it is too early to reach definitive conclusions and much [[work]] remains to be done: "I [[think]] they'll be digging up the relics of [[Sa The first permanent global war crimes court started to work on July 1st, 2002 in The Hague, with the power to tackle genocide, crimes a
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• Attempts to Escape the Logic of Capitalism
  ...'</p><p>Havel saw that if there was a '[[psychological]]' [[mechanism]] at work in Communist ideology, it was not to do with [[belief]], but rather with sh
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• On Divine Self-Limitation and Revolutionary Love
  ...isses death drive.&nbsp; But the paradox for me, as I try to develop in my work, is that death drive is a very paradoxical notion if you read Freud closely ...en the two, fidelity to the event and so on.&nbsp; But... when in his last work, Badiou tries to articulate the structure of totalitarian danger, he calls
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• Liberation Hurts
  ...Steve Martin in it, he's playing a stupid [[role]] politically, but it's a nice movie about a fake faith healer/preacher with Martin and Debra Winger.<br>< ...mplex that it appears. First, there are much more secular motivations at [[work]]. This is our Western [[racism]], when we imbue them with motives like, "I
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• The Iraqui MacGuffin
  ...by adding that it is too early to reach definitive conclusions and much [[work]] remains to be done: "I [[think]] they'll be digging up the relics of [[Sa The first permanent global war crimes court started to work on July 1st, 2002 in The Hague, with the power to tackle genocide, crimes a
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• The One Measure of True Love is "You Can Insult the Other"
  In my [[work]], I [[place]] strong emphasis on what is usually referred to as the virtua ...r which my [[good]] [[philosopher]] friend [[Alain]] [[Badiou]] invented a nice [[name]]: 'La [[passion]] du [[réel]]', the passion of the [[real]]. That
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• The Thing from Inner Space
  ...ens the firm male substantial self-identity (Otto [[Weininger]]'s entire [[work]] centers on this paradox); and, on the other hand, the more the woman is a ...these shots can work in two opposite ways, both of [[them]] exemplarily at work in <i>Nostalgia</i>: they either rely on a [[harmonious]] relationship with
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• The Big Other Doesn't Exist
  ..., I tried that a couple of weeks ago, I added an A to 23, but it doesn't [[work]], the misfortunes continue you cannot cheat it, it has to be done properly ...ion]], and how it structures our experience of reality. The same gap is at work in our most intimate [[relationship]] to our neighbors: we behave AS IF we
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• Reflections of Media, Politics and Cinema
  ...as in America, you would kill yourself. In the snobbism, drinking tea in a nice way, he found that live still had a [[meaning]]. ...ning some firm traditional [[structure]] of authority. And again, it can [[work]] both ways. What I like about fantasies is that they are always ambiguous.
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