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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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• Can Lenin Tell Us About Freedom Today
  ...[relationship]] towards Leninist Communists: liberal Leftists reject the [[Social]] Democratic "compromise," they [[want]] a true [[revolution]], yet they sh ...the reasons for obedience into the subject's [[internal]] psychological [[structure]]. So the paradox is that "liberal" [[subjects]] are in a way those least f
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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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• Human Rights and Its Discontents
  ...n he or she [[acts]] in accordance with his/her special place within the [[social edifice]], when he respects [[nature]] which provides food and shelter, whe ...jealous god. [[Family]] relations stand here metaphorically for the entire social network, for any particular ethnic substance that determines my place in th
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• The Interpassive Subject
  ==Fetish between structure and humanism== ...ney, but results from the structural place of money within the [[complex]] structure of socio-[[economic]] relations; we do not relate to a certain person as to
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• Reflections of Media and Politic and Cinema
  ...combine the dynamic of capitalism, while maintaining some firm traditional structure of authority. And again, it can work both ways. What I like about fantasies ...c party did was a miracle. Five years ago we were the remainder of the new social movements, like feminist and ecological groups. At that time everybody thou
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• Woman is One of the Names-of-the-Father
  ...recognize in the fascinating presence of God the filler of the gaps in the structure of our knowledge, i.e., the element in the guise of which the lack in our p ...the old orthodox Marxist claim: the working class is, as to its objective social position, progressive. So that when workers engage in the anti-Semitic, rig
  32 KB (5,329 words) - 03:33, 21 May 2019
• Ethnic Dance Macabre
  ...s outsiders, between the "developed" — those to whom [[human]] rights, [[social]] security and the like apply — and the [[others]], the excluded. ...factor of the Yugoslav [[tragedy]] is the survival of the old [[power]] [[structure]] (the [[communist]] [[bureaucracy]], the Federal Army) in Serbia and Monte
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• For a Leftist Appropriation of the European Legacy
  ...es, to effectuate the [[change]] in the [[global]] [[perception]] of the [[social]] [[space]], so that their claims would have a legitimate [[place]] in it. ...e calls politics as police in the most elementary [[sense]] of maintaining social order-and `the part with no-part' which unsettles this order on account of
  51 KB (7,820 words) - 07:36, 24 May 2019
• The Cyberspace Real
  ...we to escape this [[false]] alternative? Janet Murray refers to the story structure of the "[[violence]]-hub", similar to the famous [[Rashomon]] predicament: ...e the postmodern stories; instead, they combine a clear [[sense]] of story structure with a [[multiplicity]] of meaningful plots. The navigation of the labyrint
  31 KB (4,862 words) - 00:35, 21 May 2019
• Psychoanalysis in Post-Marxism: The Case of Alain Badiou
  ...l [[sense]]; there is no "state of society" without a "State" in which the structure of society is re-presented/redoubled.) This symbolic reduplicatio already i This, then, is the structure of Being. From [[time]] to time, however, in a wholly [[contingent]], unpre
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• The Spectre Is Still Roaming Around!
  ...many empirical accounts, with [[regard]] to the picture it gives of the [[social]] [[situation]], as well as with regard to the revolutionary perspective it ...]]. And, in this situation, is not the description in The Manifesto of the social impact of the [[bourgeoisie]] more actual than ever? -
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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 ...by the obscene invisible network of apparatuses, we have the public power structure which directly treats ITSELF as an anonymous, [[secret]], hidden [[body]].
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• Have Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri Rewritten the Communist Manifesto For the Twenty-First Century
  ...-that is, in [[order]] to deploy the inherent, notional [[structure]] of a social [[formation]], one must start with its most developed form. ...logical catastrophes, poverty, [[Third]] [[World]] diseases in collapse of social life, mad cow disease.
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• The Leninist Freedom
  ...he reasons for obedience into the subject’s [[internal]] psychological [[structure]]. So the paradox is that “liberal” [[subjects]] are in a way those lea ...reedom involved wild privatization, the dismantling of the [[system]] of [[social]] security, etc. etc. — they still have the freedom to choose, so if they
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• A Plea for Leninist Intolerance
  ...inventing ourselves," on condition that these choices do not disturb the [[social]] and [[ideological]] [[balance]]. With [[regard]] to C'est mon choix, the ...k how a certain [[theory]] (or art) declares itself to stay with regard to social struggles. One should also ask how it effectively functions in these very s
  75 KB (11,848 words) - 17:15, 27 May 2019
• From 'Passionate Attachments' to Dis-Identification
  ...accounted for in the standard [[notion]] of the "[[internalization]]" of [[social]] norms into psychic prohibitions. The second problem with the quick identi ...n reduces resistance to [[the imaginary]] misrecognition of the symbolic [[structure]]. Such a resistance, although it thwarts the [[full]] symbolic realization
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