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• Clash of Civilizations
  According to the FBI, there are now at least two million so-called radical right-wingers in the USA. Some are quite violent, killing abortion doctors,
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• Freedom
  ...that what is sold to us today as freedom is something from which this more radical [[dimension]] of freedom and [[democracy]] has been removed — in [[other] ...are simply no longer perceived as a matter to decide. A certain domain of radical social questions has simply been depoliticised.
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• Violence
  ...[[liberal]] stance is unable to trespass - [[witness]] the uneasiness of "radical" post-colonialist Afro-American studies apropos of [[Frantz Fanon]]'s funda
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• Repeating Lenin (Essay)
  ..."Just look around and see for yourself what will happen if we follow your radical notions!" And it is exactly the same [[thing]] that the [[demand]] for "sci Let us take two predominant topics of today's American radical academia: postcolonial and queer (gay) studies. The problem of postcolonial
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• Welcome to the Desert of the Real (Essay)
  ...idal, far from signalling a [[desire]] for self-annihilation, cutting is a radical attempt to (re)gain a stronghold in reality, or (another aspect of the same ...with enough substance to form its own state. Throughout the 90s, even the radical democratic critics of [[Milosevic]] who rejected Serb nationalism, acted on
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• Can Lenin Tell Us About Freedom Today
  ...e of dispelling all opportunistic compromises, of adopting the unequivocal radical position from which it is only possible to intervene in such a way that our ...utiful Soul]] and to keep their hands clean. In contrast to this [[false]] radical Leftist's position (who want true [[democracy]] for the people, but without
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• The Matrix, or, Two Sides of Perversion
  ...the very notion of "real" reality — VR is thus at the same time the most radical assertion of the seductive power of images. ...r" that progressively disintegrates today. What we have today is a certain radical split: on the one hand, the objectivized language of experts and scientists
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• Human Rights and Its Discontents
  ...verse resides precisely in the fact that in this universe the dimension of radical evil, that in it the balance was way too much in favor of the good? So I th ...violence]] at work in this uncoupling, that of the death [[drive]], of the radical wiping the slate clean as the condition of the new beginning.
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• Kant and Sade: The Ideal Couple
  ...t" of modern [[ethics]], positing the [[sign]] of equation between the two radical opposites, i.e. asserting that the [[sublime]] disinterested [[ethical]] at ...the [[pain]] of [[humiliation]] (because of man's hurt pride, due to the "radical [[Evil]]" of human [[nature]]); for Lacan, this Kantian privileging of pain
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• The Interpassive Subject
  ...this point clear, one should reformulate the first feature in a much more radical way. Beneath the apparently humanist-ideological opposition of "human being ...cal since belief and knowledge themselves are not symmetrical: at its most radical, the status of the ([[Lacanian]]) big Other qua symbolic institution, is th
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• Reflections of Media and Politic and Cinema
  ...you're not sure, it is more horrible than if you that there is somebody, a radical uncertainty. ...code was established, it was strictly Wagnerian, pure accompanying music, radical underscoring, determining your subjective perspective. It's a classical cas
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• Woman is One of the Names-of-the-Father
  ...rding to Schelling, what ultimately characterizes the subject is this very radical contingency and artificiality of her ever positive feature, i.e., the fact ...uch of an object she is for the Other, i.e., I am a subject insofar as the radical perplexity persists as to the Other's desire, as to what the Other sees (an
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• It Doesn't Have to be a Jew
  ...ic fundamentalism. This fundamentalism is precisely the Kantian revenge of radical evil. By the way, I'm not saying this has really something to do with [[tru ...was not [[rational]] what Saddam did during the Persian Gulf War. This was radical, almost [[ethical]] evil. In this fluid fantasy-[[universe]] of the West, t
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• Hidden Prohibitions and the Pleasure Principle
  ...last [[writing]] he formulated the possibility of what he calls "original radical evil," which is precisely evil as an ethical attitude. What was so horrible
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• Why Does a Letter Always Arrive at Its Destination?
  ...the [[thesis]] that the very fundamental gesture of deconstruction is in a radical sense common sensical. There is, namely, an unmistakable ring of common sen
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• For a Leftist Appropriation of the European Legacy
  ...f-[[transparent]] rational order of collective Will.4 the most cunning and radical version, ultra-politics: the attempt to depoliticize the conflict by way of Ranciere is thus right to emphasize the radical ambiguity of the Marxist [[notion]] of the 'gap' between [[formal]] democra
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• The Cyberspace Real
  ...tasy that can never be subjectivized. We are thus invited to risk the most radical experience imaginable: the [[encounter]] with the Other Scene that stages t ...aumatic core (the "death-[[drive]]" situation of willingly endorsing one's radical self-erasure), and the other two versions in a way react to this trauma, "d
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• From Joyce-the-Symptom to the Symptom of Power
  In a first approach, cynicism may appear to involve a much more radical distance than irony: is irony not a benevolent ridicule "from above", from
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• Desire:Drive = Truth:Knowledge
  ...ve. Lacan obliges us to add that science is perhaps "real" in an even more radical sense: it is the first (and probably unique) case of a discourse that is st
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• Psychoanalysis in Post-Marxism: The Case of Alain Badiou
  ...Marxism, the entire [[situation]] has changed: the emerging post-Marxist "radical" [[political]] [[philosophy]] as a rule insists that psychoanalysis cannot Today, when even the most radical [[intellectual]] readily succumbs to the [[compulsion]] to distance himself
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