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• 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
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• 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
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• 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
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• 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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• You May
  ...ctions (what [[Lacan]] calls the 'Big [[Other]]') to [[guide]] us in our [[social]] behaviour. All our impulses, from [[sexual]] orientation to ethnic belong ...what is wanted is an [[agent]] who will give [[structure]] to our chaotic social lives.
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• The Stellar Parallax: The Traps of Ontological Difference
  Nowhere is this structure clearer than in the case of Lacan's <i>objet petit a</i>, the object-cause ...ide of traumas and psychic breakdowns beneath the surface of the glamorous social life. At this point, the story moves back into how Dick encountered Nicole,
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• A Glance into the Archives of Islam
  ...him from this unbearable uncertainty, as well as from the [[role]] of a [[social]] outcast, a village idiot, and the first believer in his message, the firs ...of the fake one. In this precise sense, the feminine masquerade has the [[structure]] of [[mimicry]], since, for Lacan, in mimicry, I do not imitate the image
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• Move the Underground!
  ...f conspiracies"? And is the [[present]] US [[politics]], in its inherent [[structure]], not a kind of [[political]] equivalent to the Catholic paedophilia? The ...[psychoanalytic]] term, this killng would clearly display the [[temporal]] structure of [[masochist]] [[perversion]]: the succession is inverted, you are first
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• Homo Sacer as the Object of the Discourse of the University
  ...[[symbolic]] [[Order]] with its set of a priori rules which [[guarantee]] social [[cohesion]], we get the [[matrix]] of the passages from one to [[another]] ...]] is not intrusive, insofar as the Other is not really Other… A similar structure is clearly [[present]] in how we relate to [[capitalist]] profiteering: it
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• Smashing the Neighbor's Face
  ...sality, of the universality as [[struggle]] which cuts across the entire [[social]] [[body]], of universality as a [[partial]] engaged position.<br><br> ...sion is at hand that, precisely in order to isolate and assert this formal structure, the "[[principle]]" of Jewishness, one has to eliminate, erase, the "empir
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• Reloaded Revolutions
  ...lls the strings, the subject doesn't speak, he "is spoken" by the symbolic structure. The paradox, the "infinite judgment" of <i>The Matrix</i> is the co-depend ...film's moment of truth they signal the antagonisms of our late-capitalist social experience, antagonisms concerning basic ontological couples like reality a
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• The Matrix: The Truth of the Exaggerations
  ...he extrapolated embodiment of Kulturindustrie, the [[alienated]]-reified [[social]] Substance (of the [[Capital]]) directly taking over, colonizing our inner ...rplexed Neo what the Matrix is, he - he [[links]] it to a failure in the [[structure]] of the [[universe]]:
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• The Iraqi MacGuffin
  ...MD, so give us more time and we will definitely find them!") is that its [[structure]] is the same as that of a judge who first punishes the accused and then, w ...s, [[envy]], thrift, and [[melancholy]], is inscribed into the very formal structure of [[desire]]: a melancholic is unable to sustain desire in the presence of
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• Death's Merciless Love
  ...however, what we [[encounter]] here, in the case of Enigma, is the obverse structure of feigning a loss. Insofar as the Other of [[the symbolic]] Law prohibits ...us ultimately identical to desire itself. - Crucial is here the elementary structure of "[[overdetermination]]," i.e. the fact that there are two reasons the Pr
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