Search results

• Guide to Slavoj Zizek
  ...argues that he could not be [[deceived]] if he did not [[exist]] in some [[form]]. Given that his [[body]] may be an illusion, Descartes concludes that at ...to) the dominant [[ideologies]] and histories of the day. In its bleakest form, therefore, the decentred subject is little more than a puppet of overwhelm
  73 KB (12,478 words) - 23:06, 24 May 2019
• Saussure's Concept of the Sign
  speaks. So we have the [[distinction]] between <i>la [[langue]]</i> and <i> la presented in succession; they [[form]] a [[chain]]. This feature becomes<br>
  33 KB (5,707 words) - 22:34, 20 May 2019
• The Agency of the Letter
  But I shall not make of this [[distinction]] either a point or a point of de-<br> is not found in exactly this [[form]] in any of the numerous schemas, which<br>
  24 KB (4,157 words) - 00:31, 21 May 2019
• Working
  Her [[desire]] for the [[phallus]] remains [[unsatisfied]], not matter how many [[children]] she has. ...]] leads to the return of [[castration]] in the [[real]], such as in the [[form]] of [[hallucinations]] of dismemberment or even self-mutilation of the rea
  41 KB (6,137 words) - 03:36, 21 May 2019
• Linguistics and Language
  ...sibilities of the altered or introduced element. Further, the [[material]] form of a language could stabilize while distinctions expressed with those forms ...e language. To cite another of Saussure’s binary oppositions, there is a distinction to be made between [[langue]], speakers’ shared knowledge of the language
  38 KB (5,148 words) - 01:00, 26 May 2019
• Wit
  ...er widely separated [[categories]] of the [[psychological]] [[system]]. No matter how concealed, the dream is still a [[wish]], while wit is a developed play ...eason, and which must be overcome in each individual case. But a radical [[distinction]] between wit and dreams is shown in the manner in which the witwork solves
  7 KB (1,067 words) - 03:31, 21 May 2019
• Introduction: Real
  ...]] and functionsunconsciously, intruding into our symbolic reality in the form of need. The real is a kind of ubiquitous undifferentiated mass from which ...]] or need. The concept continues to retain its [[association]] with brute matter, but its predominant [[meaning]] in Lacan at this time is as that which is
  33 KB (5,476 words) - 00:53, 25 May 2019
• Robespierre or the "Divine Violence" of Terror
  ...nd clemency - the just and severe punishment of the enemies IS the highest form of clemency, so that, in it, rigor and charity coincide: ...lence is ''fiat iustitia, pereat mundus'': it is JUSTICE, the point of non-distinction between justice and vengeance, in which "people" (the anonymous part of no-
  87 KB (14,415 words) - 18:46, 14 June 2007
• Mao Zedong: the Marxist Lord of Misrule
  ...ging to the sphere of the "Asiatic mode of production," seeing it as a new form of "Oriental despotism" - the irony being that, for traditional Russians, t ...ronts its central antagonism ("contradiction") at its purest, in its naked form? And is it enough to add the "subjective" aspect and to emphasize that the
  81 KB (13,226 words) - 20:04, 14 June 2007
• Censorship Today: Violence, or Ecology as a New Opium for the Masses
  ...alization and its agents," the [[enemy]] is externalized (usually in the [[form]] of vulgar anti-Americanism). From this perspective, where the main task t ...m]] of the so-called new (digital) industries is thus: how to maintain the form of (private) property, within which only the logic of profit can be maintai
  47 KB (7,661 words) - 20:02, 27 May 2019
• On Alain Badiou and Logiques des mondes
  ...eir actions, not an anonymous "system." However, if one may apply here the distinction between goal and aim, if not goal, it should be its ultimate aim, the horiz ...essarily missed the first time, that true fidelity is only possibly in the form of resurrection, as a defence against "revisionism": Freud didn't know the
  68 KB (10,987 words) - 16:54, 12 January 2008
• Leninism Today: Zionism and the Jewish Question
  ...radition, within which [[truth]] is accessible to any [[rational]] man, no matter how depraved he is, which is why he is subjectively responsible for his cri ...ram for his birthday... Crazy and tasteless as this may sound, this last [[distinction]] bears [[witness]] to the fact that the opposition between Stalinism and N
  34 KB (5,320 words) - 00:39, 26 May 2019
• Radical Evil as a Freudian Category
  ...ram for his birthday... Crazy and tasteless as this may sound, this last [[distinction]] bears [[witness]] to the fact that the opposition between Stalinism and N ...y getting back from the victimized Third World its own message in its true form. And the moment Human Rights are thus depoliticized, the discourse dealing
  44 KB (7,093 words) - 10:21, 1 June 2019
• Only a Suffering God Can Save Us
  ...od’s omnipotence (how could He have allowed it to happen?), opt for some form of divine limitation: (1) first, God is directly posited as finite or, at l ...nfathomable divine caprice. Do the three main versions of Christianity not form a kind of Hegelian triad? In the succession of Orthodoxy, Catholicism, and
  71 KB (12,109 words) - 17:48, 12 January 2008
• Madness and Habit in German Idealism
  <blockquote>The [[form]] of habit applies to spirit in all its degrees and varieties. Of all these ...t, indifferent to it; /…/ our Self just as much appropriates the subject-matter as, on the contrary, it draws away from it; /…/ the soul, on the one hand
  58 KB (9,401 words) - 01:32, 26 May 2019
• René Descartes
  ...ical]], and it reads: given the [[ontological]] chasm between [[mind]] and matter, how can we have certain [[knowledge]] of the [[material]] [[existence]] of ...ites that the main point of Lacan’s [[reading]] of Kant is that “the [[distinction]] between phenomena and the Thing can be sustained only within the [[space]
  13 KB (1,978 words) - 22:08, 20 May 2019
• Articles/Alain Badiou/What Is Love
  ...This can also be said: the experience of the loving subject, which is the matter of love, does not constitute any knowledge [savoir] of love. This is even ...an encounter. Properly understood, this event-encounter occurs only in the form of its disappearance or eclipse. It is fixed only by a nomination, and this
  43 KB (7,327 words) - 02:55, 20 July 2019
• Articles/Slavoj Zizek/antinomies-of-pure-sexuation.html
  ...-jectivity, of that which stands against the (finite) subject, the minimal form of resistance that is not yet any positive determinate object that the subj ...ess series as closed, and positing outside of it an empty object, the very form of object, that frames the series.[#_edn4 [4]] It is also easy to discern t
  107 KB (17,648 words) - 02:55, 20 July 2019
• Articles/Slavoj Zizek/beckett-with-lacan.html
  ...s'ecrire, ceases not writing itself). It is crucial to note here the clear distinction between possibility and contingency: while possibility is the opposite of n ...she! … SHE! … (Pause) … what she was trying … what to try … no matter … keep on … (Curtain starts down) … hit on it in the end … then bac
  50 KB (8,163 words) - 02:55, 20 July 2019
• Articles/Slavoj Zizek/coke-as-objet-petit-a.html
  ...resses the artistic endeavour at its most elementary, reduced to the stark distinction between the Void (the white background/surface) and the element (the 'heavy By means of a form of sublimation specific to art, poetic creation consists in positioning an
  34 KB (5,706 words) - 02:55, 20 July 2019

View (previous 20 | next 20) (20 | 50 | 100 | 250 | 500)