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• The Obscenity of Human Rights: Violence as Symptom
  ...ral obligation]], into something we ought to do while we fight the inertia of the [[capitalist]] [[present]]. ...dangers, and there is no ultimate [[teleology|teleological]] [[guarantee]] of the outcome, the battle is open, undecided.
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• Move the Underground!
  ..., positive, notes in such a way that one would be able to discern the echo of the accompanying non-played "silent" virtual notes or their absence. ...phobia should therefore not focus primarily on the explicit [[repression]] of homosexuality; it should rather "move the underground," disturb the implici
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• Over the Rainbow Coalition!
  ...clear that we are not covert racists attacking only the [[fundamentalism]] of [[other]] (Muslim) cultures? ...prophet, nonetheless thinks that Jews have a divine [[right]] to the land of [[Israel]]?)
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• Smashing the Neighbor's Face
  ...or. /.../ deceit and veracity already presuppose the absolute authenticity of the face."<ref>[[Levinas]], Emmanuel, ''[[Totality]] and Infinity'', The [[ ...s gesture par excellence? Was He not the hostage who took the place of all of us and as such exemplarily [[human]] ("ecce homo")?
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• Is There a Proper Way to Remake a Hitchcock Film?
  ...en talk on Hitchcock's unique touch, etc., and approach the difficult task of specifying what gives Hitchcock's films their unique flair.<br> ...rely contingent… This is called [[true]] [[love]] in [[theory]]. So, out of this true love, I [[claim]] that there IS a unique Hitchcockian [[dimension
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• The Iraqi MacGuffin
  ...the Scottish highlands.' [[Naturally]] the first man says, 'But there are no leopards in the Scottish highlands.' 'Well,' says the second, 'then that's ...ngerous... Now that none were found, we reached the last line of the story of MacGuffin: "'Well,' said President [[Bush]] in September 2003, 'then that's
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• Heiner Mueller Out of Joint
  ...nce be defended? these [[terms]]. Now that the 10^th anniversary of Mueller's [[death]] is approaching, it is perhaps the [[time]] to revisit t ...better. Or recall the [[treatment]] of disabled individuals: even a couple of decades ago, the special entrances which enable [[them]] the access to rest
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• Death's Merciless Love
  ...is [[repressed]] and [[displaced]]. And it seems that the very designation of Hamlet as an [[obsessional]] [[neurotic]] points in this direction: in cont ...dge]] in [[order]] to encode insights into fundamental libidinal deadlocks of the [[human]] [[race]]?<br><br>
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• Some Politically Incorrect Reflections on Violence in France
  ...re not from rich neighborhoods, but were part of the hard-won acquisitions of the very strata from which protesters originate. ...nger of these outbursts residing in the easily predictable racist REACTION of the French populist crowd to them.
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• Bring Me My Philips Mental Jacket
  ...ed 'human nature', that we are [[born]] with an unfathomable [[dimension]] of ourselves.* ...lessness of a [[life]]-determining [[contingency]]. No wonder the majority of [[people]] (including the [[scientist]] who [[identified]] the gene) choose
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• Knee-Deep
  <i>Free [[World]]: Why a Crisis of the West Reveals the Opportunity of Our [[Time]]</i> by [[Timothy Garton Ash]] ...anything, this is it. The fate of this revolutionary was surely the fate of the [[people]] as a [[whole]] under [[Stalinist]] [[dictatorship]]: the mil
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• Attempts to Escape the Logic of Capitalism
  ...tragedy is thus a cruel, but inexorable one: the direct ethical foundation of politics sooner or later turns into its own comic caricature, adopting the * [[Attempts to Escape the Logic of Capitalism]]. ''[[London]] Review of Books''. Volume 21. [[Number]] 21. October 28, 1999. <http://www.lrb.co.uk/
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• Oedipus complex
  ...pularized and at the same [[time]] one of the most misunderstood [[ideas]] of [[psychoanalysis]]. --> ...site sex, usually accompanied by hostility and [[rivalry]] with the parent of the same sex.
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• Castration
  ...tion]] retains its [[place]] as a necessary element in the [[structuring]] of [[sexuality]] for the [[speaking]] [[being]]. ===The notion of castration in Freud's work===
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• Surrealism
  [[Breton]] was familiar with Freud's work on dreams and developed a technique of 'spontaneous' writing to give free expression to unconscious thoughts and w ...eir [[dreams]], which they saw as more '[[real]]' than the prosaic reality of our everyday world.
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• Richard Wagner
  == In the work of Slavoj Žižek == ...uctions or hypothetical [[future]] produc- tions. The overarching [[goal]] of his [[psychoanalytical]] reading is not to locate or define the beautiful i
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• Parallax View
  ...can be rendered as the difference between the two corresponding verbs, to subject (submit) oneself and to object (to protest, oppose, make an obstacle). ...f, the highest act of [[freedom]] is the display of ''amor fati'', the act of freely assuming what is otherwise necessary.
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• Liberation Hurts
  [[University]] of Illinois at Chicago, September 29, 2003<br> ...ces, etc. Should concerned academics not [[speak]] out against the erosion of the [[separation]] between [[church]] and [[state]], or do you think that t
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• The Iraqui MacGuffin
  ...the Scottish highlands.' [[Naturally]] the first man says, 'But there are no leopards in the Scottish highlands.' 'Well,' says the second, 'then that's ...ngerous... Now that none were found, we reached the last line of the story of MacGuffin: "'Well,' said President [[Bush]] in September 2003, 'then that's
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• The One Measure of True Love is "You Can Insult the Other"
  ...le, a majority. In this [[sense]], we do not have an actual [[experience]] of freedom today. Our freedoms are increasingly reduced to the freedom to choo Question: Has 11 September thrown new light on your diagnosis of what is happening to the [[world]]?
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