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• Economics
  ...he “the ‘economy’ cannot be reduced to a sphere of the positive ‘[[order]] of being’, precisely insofar as it is always political, insofar as poli ...n fact, it is precisely the [[reification]] of the economy into a positive order of [[being]] (“a thing”) that redeems Žižek’s work from the simple
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• Introduction: Real
  ...reality'. The real is the unknown that [[exists]] at the [[limit]] of this socio-symbolic [[universe]] and is in constant tension with it. The real is also a very pa ...as focused on elaborating the role of the [[signifier]] and the [[symbolic order]]. In this period the real performed an important function within his [[sys
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• Robespierre or the "Divine Violence" of Terror
  ...s were quite right to point out that one can achieve the bourgeois law and order also without the terrorist excess, as was the case in Great Britain - altho ...sense of the agency of realistic compromises). Every legal order (or every order of explicit normativity) has to rely on a complex "reflexive" network of in
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• Mao Zedong: the Marxist Lord of Misrule
  ...e of Judas the traitor, replacing him!), Marx needed Lenin's "betrayal" in order to enact the first Marxist revolution: it is an inner necessity of the "ori ...77, p. 288.</ref> In contrast to the male ambition, a woman wants power in order to promote her own narrow family interests or, even worse, her personal cap
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• Censorship Today: Violence, or Ecology as a New Opium for the Masses
  ..., on account of its [[lacking]] a determinate [[place]] in the "private" [[order]] of social hierarchy, directly stands for [[universality]]: it is only the ...lways secondary, an attempt to negotiate a "habit" that would restore some order after catastrophic interruptions.
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• On Alain Badiou and Logiques des mondes
  ...ent - he merely adds a signifier which all of a sudden turns disorder into order, into "new harmony," as Rimbaud would have put it. Think about anti-Semitis ...d be asserted unconditionally, every Master-Signifier meant to impose some order on it should be "deconstructed," dispersed, "disseminated": "The modern apo
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• Leninism Today: Zionism and the Jewish Question
  ...ileged node: it grabbed all the links, i.e., we have to relate to him in [[order]] to [[communicate]] with other entities. The big structural question is, o
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• Cogito, Madness and Religion: Derrida, Foucault and then Lacan
  ...tined by their [[instincts]]. What this means is that, paradoxically, in [[order]] to be educated into freedom (qua moral [[autonomy]] and self-responsibili ..., Kant emphasized that the human animal [[needs]] disciplinary pressure in order to tame an [[uncanny]] "unruliness" which seems to be inherent to human nat
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• Radical Evil as a Freudian Category
  ...itiatic [[rituals]] of [[torture]] and humiliation one has to undergo in [[order]] to be accepted into a closed [[community]]. Do we not see similar photos ...are their last recourse, then somebody else has to inherit their rights in order to enact them in their place. This is what is called the "right to humanita
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• The Liberal Utopia I: Against the Politics of Jouissance
  ...its constitutive lack, while drive circulates around a hole, a gap in the order of being. In other words, the circular movement of drive obeys the weird lo
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• Against The Double Blackmail (article)
  ...ican patriotic terrorist who sent a bomb [[letter]] to a US consulate in [[order]] to protest against the American interfering into the local [[politics]]. ...ess [[acts]] as an obstacle to the unbriddled assertion of the [[New World Order]].
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• Articles/Slavoj Zizek/antinomies-of-pure-sexuation.html
  ...overstep the boundaries of our finite experience, reason (logos, symbolic order) gets necessarily entangled in antinomies, a proof that our reason cannot r ''Objet a'' is what is to be subtracted from the real, not added to it, in order to arrive at reality. If it falls into reality, reality breaks down (say, w
  107 KB (17,648 words) - 02:55, 20 July 2019
• Articles/Slavoj Zizek/cogito-in-the-history-of-madness.html
  ...the madness of the passage to the symbolic itself, of imposing a symbolic order onto the chaos of the Real. If madness is constitutive, then ''every'' sys ...ot the same with our immersion in Virtual Reality? When I raise my hand in order to push an object in virtual space, this object effectively moves―my illu
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• Articles/Slavoj Zizek/marx-as-a-reader-of-hegel-hegel-as-a-reader-of-marx.html
  ...om the Soviet Union for two reasons: "First, I fear that, if the socialist order disintegrates, all the blame for the communist crimes will be put on us, th ...singular. Market competition really brings people together, while organic order divides them. The best indication of this shift in the mature Hegel concern
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• Articles/Slavoj Zizek/pathological-narcissus.html
  ..."over-adjusted" hysteric that exaggeratedly identifies himself with social order, which causes his suppressed instinctive substance to strike back in the fo ...al implications lack a notion of the symbolic and of the need for symbolic order. Briefly, the difference between "normal" and "pathological" narcissism can
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• Articles/Slavoj Zizek/radical-evil-as-a-freudian-category.html
  ...– the initiatic rituals of torture and humiliation one has to undergo in order to be accepted into a closed community. Do we not see similar photos in reg ...are their last recourse, then somebody else has to inherit their rights in order to enact them in their place. This is what is called the "right to humanita
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• Articles/Slavoj Zizek/why-lacan-is-not-lacanian.html
  ...d the price the subject has to pay in order to gain access to the symbolic order – all the false poetry of "castration," of some primordial act of sacrifi ...e impossibility which is co-substantial with the very fact of the symbolic order – "jouissance is forbidden to him who speaks as such."
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• Books/Lacan, Jouissance, and the Social Sciences: The One and the Many
  * Appendix I: An Outline of the History of the Symbolic Order or the History of Human Wisdom and Knowledge
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