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• The Act
  ...the space of the gap of the minimal [[difference]] “between the set of [[social]] regulations and the void of their absence”. In other words, Bartleby’ ...lity is incomplete and split from within, that there is another world to [[construct]], even if we cannot grasp it in our present moment. 
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• Semiotics
  ...efficiently and effectively as possible. Hence, communication theorists [[construct]] models based on codes, [[media]], and contexts to explain the [[biology]] ...humans [[understand]] that one can only [[interpret]] ''language'' in a [[social]] context (sometimes termed the [[semiosphere]]). Pure linguistics dismantl
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• Sigmund Freud
  ...tively aware. The dynamic unconscious, a more specific [[social construct|construct]], referred to mental [[processes]] and contents which are defensively remo ===Social psychology===
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• Deconstruction
  ...es Derrida]] in the 1960s and is used in contemporary [[humanities]] and [[social sciences]] to denote a philosophy of meaning that deals with the ''ways'' t ...ch etymologically means "to undo"—a [[virtual]] synonym for "to de-[[construct]]." ... If anything is destroyed in a deconstructive reading, it is not the
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• Jacques Lacan:Sexual Difference
  ...erence was [[displaced]] through the study of [[gender]] as a [[social]] [[construct]]. It was within this context that Lacan's idiosyncratic formulations of se Second, it would mean that femininity is wholly a discursive construct and that sexual identity is completely socially - symbolically - constructe
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• Jacques Lacan:Oedipus
  ...] that organizes our [[social]]-symbolic and [[unconscious]] relations (of social [[meanings]]). ...the prohibition against incest provided the foundation for all subsequent social laws.
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• Jacques Lacan:Real
  ...o a very paradoxical [[concept]]; it supports our [[social reality]] - the social world cannot [[exist]] without it - but it also undermines that reality. A ...t is through the process of cancelling out, of symbolizing the real, that 'social reality' is created. In short, the real does not exist, as [[existence]] is
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• Racism
  Racism and [[anti-Semitism]] are both [[social]] and [[psychic]] [[structures]]. ...erego, the father and fantasy - is a necessary and constituive part of all social roders and essential to their proper funcitoning.
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• Anti-Semitism
  [[Racism]] and anti-Semitism are both [[social]] and [[psychic]] [[structures]]. ...ego]], the father and fantasy - is a necessary and constituive part of all social roders and essential to their proper funcitoning.
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• Repeating Lenin (Essay)
  ...a certain [[theory]] (or art) declares itself to stay with [[regard]] to [[social]] struggles — one should also ask how it effectively functions IN these v ...ent, all belittling of the role of 'the conscious element,' of the role of Social-Democracy, means, quite independently of whether he who belittles that role
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• The Matrix, or, Two Sides of Perversion
  ...trix the extrapolated embodiment of Kulturindustrie, the alienated-reified social Substance (of the Capital) directly taking over, colonizing our inner life ...rtia of materiality — in the late capitalist consummerist society, "real social life" itself somehow acquires the features of a staged fake, with our neigh
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• The Interpassive Subject
  ...i.e. that, in the [[fetishist]] [[universe]], people (mis)perceive their [[social]] relations in the guise of relations between things? Althusserians are ful ...]]-[[present]] [[living]] [[subjectivity]] to whom the belief embodied in "social things" can be attributed, and who is then dispossesed of it. There are som
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• It Doesn't Have to be a Jew
  ...Spinozist signifier. Even in our everyday political experiences when we [[construct]] the enemy, we depict [[danger]] as the one who overidentifies. This is th ...is contradictory desire. Do we have a [[name]] for the [[system]], for a [[social]] system that tries to accomplish precisely this? Capitalism and organic un
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• The Cyberspace Real
  ...the fantasmatic framework which underlies and sustains our experience of (social) reality. It was often claimed that Lynch throws us, the spectators, open i ...d is not the digital universe of cyberspace the ideal medium in which to [[construct]] such pure semblances which, although they are [[nothing]] "in themselves,
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• When the Party Commits Suicide
  ...tandards of historical research, but also enables us to grasp the unique [[social]] dynamics that culminated in the great purges of the 30s: J. Arch Getty's ...for Lenin: his Lenin was the one who, apropos of the split in the Russian Social [[Democracy]] into Bolsheviks and Mensheviks, when the two factions fought
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• The Stellar Parallax: The Traps of Ontological Difference
  ...ide of traumas and psychic breakdowns beneath the surface of the glamorous social life. At this point, the story moves back into how Dick encountered Nicole, ...lie, an ideological mystification that transposes the external network of social relations into inherent psychological features. One is even tempted to say
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• Hegel - Chesterton: German Idealism and Christianity
  ...but in the [[absence]] of any external limitation that would allow us to [[construct]] and/or validate elements with [[regard]] to an external measure. Read in ...hand, he is more consequent in his theological ratiocinations than in his social vision: in his [[theology]], he DOES explicitly posit the [[identity]] betw
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• A Glance into the Archives of Islam
  ...out a proper time to “work through” the [[trauma]] of its impact, to [[construct]] a symbolic-fictional space/screen for it, the only possible reactions to ...him from this unbearable uncertainty, as well as from the [[role]] of a [[social]] outcast, a village idiot, and the first believer in his message, the firs
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• Move the Underground!
  ...der]] to account for their interconnection, one is thus compelled to (re)[[construct]] a third, "[[virtual]]" intermediate level (melodic line) which, for [[str ...e, sexual depravity, commercialization, [[class]] [[struggle]] and other [[social]] [[antagonisms]] ... ); as such, the figure of the Jew has to be sustained
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• Reloaded Revolutions
  ...very inconsistencies point towards the antagonisms of our ideological and social predicament. What, then, is the Matrix? Simply what Lacan called the "big o ...film's moment of truth they signal the antagonisms of our late-capitalist social experience, antagonisms concerning basic ontological couples like reality a
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