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• Love of One's Neighbor
  ...n what Lacan is saying and Lyotard's equation of the death of God with the failure of all metanarratives of truth.] </p><p><br> ...n our hands from this adventure, something that changes the bases of the [[ethical]] problem, namely, <i>that jouissance </i>still remains forbidden as it was
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• The Jouissance of Transgression
  ...>And if we are to make any progress, this is what the perspective of the [[ethical]] ends of psychoanalysis, whose significance I am trying to demonstrate her ...deserves. It offers amazing examples of a lack of systematicity - not the failure of a method, but the [[choice]] of a failed method. The so- called [[scient
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• Hallucination as Ideology in Cinema
  ...thologizes" Octavia's sacrificial gesture, reducing a pure "disinterested" ethical act to a "pathological" feminine subterfuge. ...thful to her dead husband. The parallel with the literary tradition of the ethical gesture of renunciation which persists when the obstacle is no longer here
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• Totemism
  ...as the beginning at once of [[social]] organization, of religion, and of [[ethical]] restrictions. Now whether we suppose that such a possibility was a histor
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• Stalinism
  ...n universe - far from accepting these rules, it is the [[duty]] of every [[ethical]] subject to fight such a universe with all means possible, including the [ ...to take measure of our acts and pronounce their "true meaning," their true ethical status. Even Jacques [[Derrida]]'s notion of "[[deconstruction]] as justice
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• A Plea for a Return to Différance
  The conclusion drawn was that this failure was due to underestimating the depth of Western [[Christian]] spiritual fou ...nce]]-in short, an ethically corrupted nobody posing as a high Christian [[ethical]] [[authority]]-wrote apropos Jacques [[Derrida]]'s untimely [[death]], wit
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• Function of Language
  ...days off they never went out. One stormy night lightning caused a po«rer failure. When their employers, a woman and her daughter, returned from an evening o ...demand responded to, but its desire [[exists]] only because of the initial failure of satisfaction. Desire persists as an effect of a primordial absence.
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• The Sublime Theorist of Slovenia
  ...iting exception, but an inconsistent elementary "love without limit," an [[ethical]], impure desire. ...st intellectuals. What we have really witnessed is a true debacle, a total failure of the intellectuals in all these cases. This is a very interesting lesson.
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• Transference love
  ...must be the rule during the treatment. Considerations both technical and [[ethical]] [[prohibit]] the analyst from gratifying the solicitations of transferenc ...ferential [[anxiety]] aroused by the interpersonal situation, as well as a failure to deal with personal [[narcissistic]] shortcomings or masochistic tendenci
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• Love of the Neighbor
  ...n what Lacan is saying and Lyotard's equation of the death of God with the failure of all metanarratives of truth.] </p><p><br> ...n our hands from this adventure, something that changes the bases of the [[ethical]] problem, namely, <i>that jouissance </i>still remains forbidden as it was
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• No Sex, Please, We're Post-Human!
  ...lligent machine from the intelligent human, then, according to Turing, our failure proves that machines can think. - What is a little bit less known is that i ...human genome was publicly announced, the wave of commentaries about the [[ethical]], medical, etc. consequences of this breakthrough rendered [[manifest]] th
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• Badiou: Notes From an Ongoing Debate
  ...or not?” (One can also imagine a humanitarian version of such a pseudo-[[ethical]] [[blackmail]]: “OK, enough of this muddle about the neocolonialism, the ...– therein resides the “pedagogy of the revolution“ – in their very failure to achieve their professed [[goal]] create the ([[subjective]]) [[condition
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• Robespierre or the "Divine Violence" of Terror
  ...right moment: it marked the end of the era which began in 1789, the final failure of the statist-revolutionary model which first entered the scene with the J ...ith his notion of the neighbor as the abyssal point from which the call of ethical responsibility emanates. What Levinas thereby obfuscates is the monstrosity
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• Mao Zedong: the Marxist Lord of Misrule
  ...nitial either/or. Of course, this "choice of the worst" fails, but in this failure, it undermines the entire field of the alternative and thus enables us to o ...as if this logic of "obstacle as a positive condition" which underlied the failure of the socialist attempts to overcome capitalism, is now returning with a v
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• On Alain Badiou and Logiques des mondes
  ...ver the relational field that is also the domain of political ecology, the ethical field of resistance to identity and predictable paths. It's very troubling ...ld-Event functions in the same way as Kierkegaard's triad of the Aesthetic-Ethical-Religious: the choice is always between two terms, and either/or, i.e., the
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• Only a Suffering God Can Save Us
  ...s as this very point that God’s suffering enters: what it signals is the failure of any <em>Aufhebung</em> of the raw fact of suffering. What echoes here is ...Christ is "more" than other model figures of religious or philosophical or ethical wisdom, real or mythical (Buddha, Socrates, Moses, Mohammad), "divine" in t
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• Against The Double Blackmail (article)
  ...e. The second story concerns the other side of the much-praised new global ethical politics in which one is allowed to violate the state sovereignty on behalf ...ATO intervention in Yugoslavia is not simply the result of some particular failure of strategic reasoning, but depends on the fundamental [[inconsistency]] of
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• Articles/Slavoj Zizek/antinomies-of-pure-sexuation.html
  ...Hegel. In the predominant perception, Kant is supposed to openly admit the failure of general ontology which aims at grasping the Whole of reality: when our m ...plores the fact that we cannot ever be certain if our act was a truly free ethical act and not an act contaminated by pathological motivations: again, beneath
  107 KB (17,648 words) - 02:55, 20 July 2019
• Articles/Slavoj Zizek/beckett-with-lacan.html
  ...variations on Joyce, the "true" Becket constituted himself through a true ethical act, a CUT, a rejection of the Joycean wealth of enjoy-meant, and the ascet ...where a mortal human being attempts to escape immortality, its unbearable ethical burden/injunction. In this sense, Texts are an optimistic work – their me
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• Articles/Slavoj Zizek/in-defense-of-hegels-madness.html
  ...er fully adequate expressions of their content, still subject to error and failure when they are applied to novel particulars. But the way things are in thems ...the ideal of a harmonious hierarchic social body), and the result of this failure was that we had to change this ideal notion itself. So what happens at the
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