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• Henning Mankell, the Artist of the Parallax View
  ...e and "natives" directly writing about their own environs. This opposition does not necessarily overlap with the opposition between amusement and "serious" ...urderer is discovered, apprehended and condemned; what he does is close to what, in his seminal essay "On Raymond Chandler," Fredric [[Jameson]] described
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• Are We Allowed To Enjoy Daphnée du Maurier?
  ...<a href="#1x">1</a> She tells stories without truly [[being]] a writer; in what, then, resides the [[secret]] of the undisputed tremendous [[power]] of [[fascination]] exerted by her stories? What if these two features are
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• Liberation Hurts
  ...the absolute [[responsibility]], [[ethical]] [[injunction]], all that. So, what interests me is precisely this kind of - how should I put it? - disavowed s ...follow the more detailed ramifications of these rules, what is prohibited, what is not. For example, this abstract Jewish spirituality is in; in [[other]]
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• The Iraqui MacGuffin
  ...ge you are carrying there?' The other man replies, 'That is a MacGuffin.' 'What is a MacGuffin?' asks the first. The second says, 'A MacGuffin is a device ...he US? It did not attack us!', one should answer it with the question 'And what did the terrorists who destroyed the Twin Towers effectively DO to the U.S.
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• Femininity Between Goodness And Act
  ...]], the [[non-all]] (<i>pas-tout</i>) of [[woman]] means that not all of a woman is caught up in the phallic <i>jouissance</i>: She is always [[split]] bet
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• Laugh Yourself to Death
  ...his girl sexually very attractive; I can do with my prisoners whatever I [[want]], so I can rape her with impunity. However, I am also impregnated by the r ...t which witnesses themselves had to concede that [[words]] fail them, that what they can share is ultimately only their [[silence]]. Holocaust in advance d
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• The Thing from Inner Space
  ...esides the point of the [[notion]] of [[suture]] in [[cinema]] [[theory]]. What I propose to do is something much more naive and abrupt: to analyze the way ...f the universe - however, what if its actual effect is the exact opposite? What if the [[true]] horror is that of Something - the intrusion of some excess
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• The Matrix, or, the Two Sides of Perversion
  ...e symbolic order as such? However, what if this very alternative is false? What if the virtual character of the symbolic order "as such" is the very condit ...formula of the production of the couple!), that is ideology at its purest? What if ideology resides in the very belief that, outside the closure of the fin
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• Against The Double Blackmail
  ...so that the post returned [[The Letter|the letter]] to him. [[Forgetting]] what he put in it, he opened it and blew himself to [[death]] - a perfect exampl ...e [[community]] of [[civilized]] nations against...". And on what criteria does this selection rely? Why Albanians in Serbia and not also Palestinians in [
  53 KB (8,634 words) - 17:39, 27 May 2019
• Psychoanalysis and Post-Marxism
  ...of an egalitarian democratic enthusiasm-of an unconditional [[demand]] for what Etienne [[Balibar]] called egaliberte. For that [[reason]], the political u ...arently re-presents society, but [[acts]] as a violent [[intervention]] in what it re-presents.
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• Desire: Drive = Truth: Knowledge
  ...ller]] has pointed out, the [[concept]] of "constructions in [[analysis]]" does not rely on the (dubious) [[claim]] that the [[analyst]] is always [[right] ...e, i.e., I can only assume my [[fundamental fantasy]] insofar as I undergo what [[Lacan]] calls "[[subjective destitution]]." Or, to put it in yet [[anothe
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• Reflections of Media, Politics and Cinema
  Geert Lovink: You have been to Japan. What's your opinion on the technological [[culture]] in this country? ...t I must say that I don't have my own positive [[theory]] [[about]] Japan. What I do have, as every Western [[intellectual]], are the [[myths]] of referenc
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• It Doesn't Have to Be a Jew
  ...patterns, should be giving new [[meaning]] to the actual [[signifiers]]. What [[speech]] act is involved in this context? </i><br><br> ...ght get rich, including you." Let's take Thatcherism in Great [[Britain]]: what is the Thatcherist [[dream]]? It is that by hard work you win; luck is arou
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• Civil Society, Fanaticism, and Digital Reality
  What should be the role of intellectuals? </p><p><b>Zizek:</b> Partially this is [[true]]. For me what was partially so
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• Hidden Prohibitions And The Pleasure Principle
  ...eans are going to arrive in Western [[Europe]] and the USA in no [[time]]. What do you [[think]] may happen to local regional cultures? ...the [[performative]]." I think this was the ultimate Spinozist [[dream]], what he called "love of God'' or "perfect [[rational]] knowledge," which is a ki
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• From "Passionate Attachments" to Dis-identification
  ...s all [[resistance]] to it to [[imaginary]] [[misrecognition]]. And if one does effectively break up the chains of the [[symbolic order]], one is expelled ...Platonic-[[Christian]] definition of the body as the "prison of the soul," what he calls the "body" is not simply the [[biological]] body, but is that whic
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• Hysteria and Cyberspace
  ...j Zizek: Yes, that's precisely the idea. We all share one collective mind. What I find so interesting about it, is the ambiguity of this [[fantasy]]: It ca ...when you are deprived of all your positive [[content]], can one truly see what remains, namely the Cartesian [[subject]].
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• Civilization
  ...means of which a [[child]] with a quite other innate endowment grows into what we call a normal man, the bearer, and in part the [[victim]], of the civili ...n of one group can become the source of suppression for another group that does not participate in the process of [[self]]-education without [[doubt]] cons
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• Illusion
  "Art is said to be almost always harmless and beneficent; it does not seek to be anything but an illusion." (1933a [1932], p. 160). In what sense is art an illusion?
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• Works of Slavoj Zizek
  For They [[Know]] Not What They Do: [[Enjoyment]] as a [[Political]] Factor, New York: Verso, 1991. ...ulture. However, as with [[Looking Awry]], the familiarity of the examples does not necessarily make this the most accessible of his books to read.
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