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• Lacanian Psychoanalysis
  ...l [[autonomy]] and rational choice. At the time of the May ‚68 events [[people]] were very concerned with questions of self-expression, [[desire]] and [[s ...ogy]] and structuralism. His early [[work]] coincided with the growth of [[French]] phenomenology and he was influenced by the thought of [[Hegel]] and [[Hei
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• Jacques Lacan:Real
  ...es, wars or [[other]] human disasters. The effect of these events on the [[people]] [[present]] or just watching [[them]] is said to be traumatic and psychol ...[patients]] appear to [[enjoy]] their own [[illness]] or [[symptom]]. In [[French]] the [[word]] also has sexual connotations and is associated with sexual p
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• The One Measure of True Love Is: You Can Insult the Other
  ...ation or digitalisation of our environment. We know that 60 percent of the people on this Earth have not even made a phone call in their life. But still, 30 ...It is a deeply conservative gesture. The true conservatives today are the people of new paradigms. They try desperately to avoid confronting what is really
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• Repeating Lenin (Essay)
  ...f sarcastic [[laughter]]: [[Marx]] is OK, even on Wall Street, there are [[people]] who [[love]] him today — Marx the poet of commodities, who provided per ...deological coordinates: those who "really want to do something to [[help]] people" get involved in (undoubtedly honorable) exploits like Medecins sans fronti
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• Welcome to the Desert of the Real (Essay)
  ...e see — no dismembered bodies, no blood, no desperate faces of the dying people… in clear contrast to the reporting from the [[Third]] World catastrophie ...ion]] in New York rapist gangs and a dozen or so snipers blindly targeting people who walk along the streets, one gets an [[idea]] about what Sarajevo was a
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• The Matrix, or, Two Sides of Perversion
  ...spectatle staged to convince him that he lives in a real world, while all people around him are effectively actors and extras in a gigantic show? The most r ...s people from their bodies — but it also frees the machines from "their" people…
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• Human Rights and Its Discontents
  ...der. For that reason, [[Buddha]]'s followers [[form]] a [[community]] of [[people]] who in one way or [[another]] have broken with the hierarchy of the socia ...Lacanian]] movement. The IPA is the psychoanalytic church, excommunicating people from its ranks only when it feels effectively threatened, prone to endless
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• Reflections of Media and Politic and Cinema
  ...r Kojeve the end of history was Russia and America, the realization of the French Revolution. Then he noticed that someting was missing. He found the answer ...ning', based on Stephen King's novel? This is America at it's worst. Three people, a family, in a big hotel and still the space is too small for them and the
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• For a Leftist Appropriation of the European Legacy
  ...this stance, which allows theoreticians to `[[speak]] for' the masses of [[people]], to [[know]] the [[truth]] [[about]] [[them]], Ranciere endeavours again ...[[politicization]], discernible in all great democratic events, from the [[French]] [[Revolution]] (in which le troisieme etat proclaimed itself identical to
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• Psychoanalysis in Post-Marxism: The Case of Alain Badiou
  ...ou calls a "situation" is any [[particular]] consistent multitude (e.g., [[French]] society, modern art): a situation is structured, and it is its [[structur ...ves its own series of determinations: the Event itself; its denomination ("French Revolution" not being an objective-categorizing designation but part of the
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• A Leftist Plea for 'Eurocentrism'
  ...[[politicization]], discernable in all great democratic events, from the [[French]] [[Revolution]] (in which the [[Third]] Estate proclaimed itself identical ...l." However, a couple of days later, the slogan changed into "We are a/one people!" (Wir sind ein Volk!"), clearly signalling the closure of the momentary au
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• Seize the Day: Lenin's Legacy
  ...e set in motion a state [[apparatus]] consisting of 10 if not 20 million [[people]]." What we should recognise is the '[[madness]]' (in the Kierkegaardian se This gap — which recalls the interval between 1789 and 1793 in the [[French]] Revolution — is the [[space]] of Lenin's unique intervention. The funda
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• The Iraq War: Where is The True Danger
  ...y to the US, but also to its neighbors, and we should liberate the Iraqi [[people]]; (3) the [[change]] of regime in Iraq will create the [[conditions]] for ...but appear deeply hypocritical — do they really care about how the Iraqi people feel?
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• You May
  ...chmen associate [[Germany]] with Eastern Balkan brutality - it [[lacks]] [[French]] finesse. Finally, to some British opponents of the [[European Union]], Co ...nsitivity to [[reflection]] - a [[neo-Nazi]] skinhead who beats up black [[people]] [[knows]] what he's doing, but does it anyway.
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• The Stellar Parallax: The Traps of Ontological Difference
  ...he first edition, the novel begins years later at the Divers' villa on the French Riviera where the couple lives a glamorous life; the story is told from the ...lashback after the first part sticks out: while the jump from the present (French Riviera in 1929) to the past (Zurich in 1919) is convincing, the return to
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• The Obscenity of Human Rights: Violence as Symptom
  ...l be the fall of both houses that posed a menace to the [[unity]] of the [[French]] [[state]]. But this ingenious plan to play off her enemies against each ...of breaking the siege of Sarajevo, of imposing a corridor through which [[people]] and provisions could circulate freely? It would have cost nothing: with
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• Over the Rainbow Coalition!
  ...t passion is aggressive secularism of the kind displayed recently by the [[French]] [[state]] where the [[government]] prohibited wearing all too conspicuous ...be deprived of it? So the [[idea]] was formulated that, in the same way [[people]] [[sign]] permission for their organs to be use for medical purposes in th
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• Smashing the Neighbor's Face
  ...ists: [[le Pen]]'s entire program can be summed up in "[[France]] to the [[French]]!" (and this allows us to generate further formulas: "[[Germany]] to Germa ...eged position of a singularity with a direct access to the universal - all people participate in the universality, but Jews are "more universal than others":
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• Passion In The Era of Decaffeinated Belief
  ...ist passion is aggressive secularism of the kind displayed recently by the French state where the government prohibited wearing all too conspicuous religious ...y and the entire humanity. Instead of believing through the other like all people of culture, they really believed in their own religion and thus had no grea
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• Iraq's False Promises
  ...tatorship was a [[threat]] to its neighbors and a catastrophe to its own [[people]], and these facts were [[reason]] enough to topple it. [[True]], but why t ...humanity's true [[desire]], then all that Americans need to do is to give people a [[chance]], liberate them from their imposed constraints, and they will e
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