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• Are We in a War
  ...roups of homo sacer — 'ethnic-[[religious]] conflicts' which violate the rules of [[universal]] [[human rights]], do not count as wars proper, and call fo ...ide [[money]] for the terrorists!' 'Terror' is thus elevated to become the hidden point of equivalence between all [[social evils]]. How, then, are we to bre
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• The Pope's Failures
  ...r profound self-realization.” Exemplary here is Donald Spoto’s <i>The Hidden [[Jesus]]</i>. In this [[New Age]] “[[liberal]]” reading of [[Christia ...he ruthless determination to [[work]] for the [[Church]], with all other [[rules]] [[being]] (potentially) suspended. As a rule, its members, whose task is
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• The Empty Wheelbarrow
  ...liberal]]-democratic tenets, they display a breathtaking talent to unearth hidden traps of domination. When faced with an attack on these tenets, they displa ...e future of the [[international community]] that is at stake now - the new rules that will regulate it, what the new world [[order]] will be.
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• Henning Mankell, the Artist of the Parallax View
  ...r (and Mankell): the outer ring of the detective formula is a rigid set of rules; but inside that artless guard, old art is dancing like children; for the d ...ictimized [[women]] (raping or beating [[them]]). The story brings out the hidden side of the Swedish Welfare-State miracle in decay, the brutal persistence
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• Passion in the Era of Decaffeinated Belief
  ...which we belong (recall the proverbial non-believing Jew who obeys kosher rules "out of respect for tradition"). "I do not really believe in it, it is just ...of your profound self-realization... Exemplary is here Donald Spoto's The Hidden Jesus, a New Age tainted "liberal" reading of Christianity, where we can re
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• The Iraqui MacGuffin
  ...spectors were searching for [[them]] in [[Iraq]], they were expected to be hidden in the most disparate and improbable places, from the (rather [[logical]] [ ...ng HERE as the result of the "[[war on terror]]." Instead of talking about hidden conspiratorial agendas, one should shift the focus onto what is going on, o
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• Homo Sacer as the Object of the University Discourse
  ...e 1968. Instead of the one [[symbolic]] [[Order]] with its set of a priori rules which [[guarantee]] social [[cohesion]], we get the [[matrix]] of the passa ...it into the [[subject]] ($). The "[[truth]]" of the university discourse, hidden beneath the bar, of course, is [[power]], i.e. the Master-[[Signifier]]: th
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• The One Measure of True Love is "You Can Insult the Other"
  ...you are in an open [[situation]]. Today we can no longer simply apply old rules. We are engaged in paradoxes, which offer no immediate way out. In this sen ...ersality. But I don't believe in some a priori universality of fundamental rules or universal notions. The only true universality we have access to is polit
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• Laugh Yourself to Death
  ...c [[about]] the owner of a small shop in the ghetto who pretends to have a hidden radio-receiver and regularly tells his terrified fellows uplifting news abo ...llies, he is led away by a German soldier to be shot, he winks at his son (hidden in a nearby closet) and starts to march a goose-step in a comically-exagger
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• The Thing from Inner Space
  ...(and herself) by her [[suicide]]? <i>Solaris</i> relies on science-fiction rules to enact in reality itself, to [[present]] as a material fact, the notion t ...an]] dialectics of Lord and Bondsman, [[Judith]] [[Butler]] focuses on the hidden contract between the two: "the imperative to the bondsman consists in the f
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• The Matrix, or, the Two Sides of Perversion
  ...elementary a belief into an "Other of the Other", into another Other who, hidden behind the Other of the explicit social texture, programs (what appears to ...nd is brought to extreme in quantum physics, where we are dealing with the rules/laws which function, although they cannot ever be retranslated into our exp
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• The Big Other Doesn't Exist
  ..., to count as such, must be grounded in some tautological authority BEYOND RULES, which says, "It is so because said it so!". ...iberating" notion that, today, individuals are compelled to (re)invent the rules of their co-existence without any guarantee of some meta-norm [[Kant]]'s [[
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• From "Passionate Attachments" to Dis-identification
  ...," relies for its performative power on the preestablished set of symbolic rules and/or norms. ...xposure and [[self-transparency]], i.e. the [[awareness]] that there is no hidden [[content]], makes the subject even more enigmatic. Sometimes, being totall
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• Are We in a War? Do We Have an Enemy?
  ...groups of homo sacer - 'ethnic-[[religious]] conflicts' which violate the rules of [[universal]] [[human rights]], do not count as wars proper, and call fo ...ide [[money]] for the terrorists!' 'Terror' is thus elevated to become the hidden point of equivalence between all [[social evils]]. How, then, are we to bre
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• Correspondence with Jacques Lacan (1963 - 1969)
  ...May comes, this myth of the sun keeping watch in the night itself, simply hidden by the other side of the earth, its other opaque with its very [[presence]] ...be able to say hello to daddy mommy or to get [[married]] according to the rules, since, after all, gotta make them happy and make children for France! In b
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• Mastery
  ...ntaining the [[narcissistic]] quest for domination, although this quest is hidden. ...onscious formations]] to [[pass]] into the [[preconscious]]. They are also rules of a type of mastery that is specific to the [[psychoanalytic]] process, on
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• Myth of Origins
  ...mpose a [[prohibition]] against [[incest]]. This [[symbolic]] pact and the rules that result from it constitute the beginnings of society. ...[[mother]] and daughter that he compared to Minoan-Mycenaean culture, long hidden by Athenian culture.
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• Stalinism
  ...space, but as a much stronger meta-semantic indication that the very basic rules of this semiotic space are changing, thus causing total perplexity, [[panic ...hin a terrifying criminal totalitarian universe - far from accepting these rules, it is the [[duty]] of every [[ethical]] subject to fight such a universe w
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• Symbol
  ...a person's individual [[associations]], which permit [[them]] to discover hidden meaning, as in the hysterical symptom or in dreams—or on collective conte
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• Myth of origins
  ...mpose a [[prohibition]] against [[incest]]. This [[symbolic]] pact and the rules that result from it constitute the beginnings of society. ...[[mother]] and daughter that he compared to Minoan-Mycenaean culture, long hidden by Athenian culture.
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