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• Surrealism
  ...n]] dialectics and [[Marxist]]-Leninist historical [[materialism]]. The "[[social]] and martial cataclysm" (Breton, 1934) provoked a [[revolt]] by an entire ...(Arthur Rimbaud) by freeing humanity from the constraints of [[mental]] or social [[censorship]] as well as [[economic]] oppression: "[[Poetry]] is made by e
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• Frankfurt School
  ...al term used to designate the thinkers affiliated with the Institute for [[Social]] Research or influenced by [[them]]: it is not the title of any instituti ...e task of choosing what parts of Marx's [[thought]] might serve to clarify social [[conditions]] which Marx himself had never seen. They drew on [[other]] [[
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• Liberation Hurts
  ...]] organizations are beginning to receive [[government]] funds to manage [[social]] services, etc. Should concerned academics not [[speak]] out against the e ..., but it's an historical fact that the [[Nazis]] took these forms from the Social [[Democrats]]. Originally, these forms were Leftist. The liberal point woul
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• The One Measure of True Love is "You Can Insult the Other"
  ...- in [[other]] [[words]], the [[belief]] that basic decisions [[about]] [[social]] [[development]] are discussed or brought about involving as many as possi ...n the sense that there is some kind of a basic social pact that elementary social decisions are no longer discussed as political decisions. They are turned i
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• The Thing from Inner Space
  ...deals with some impossible/traumatic Thing, like the [[Alien]] Thing in [[science]]-[[fiction]] [[horror]] films.<br> ...of Harey is that she becomes aware that she is deprived of all substantial identity, that she is Nothing in herself, since she only [[exists]] as the Other's [
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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.<br>
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• The Matrix, or, the Two Sides of Perversion
  ...trix the extrapolated embodiment of Kulturindustrie, the alienated-reified social Substance (of the Capital) directly taking over, colonizing our inner life ...nertia of materiality - in the late capitalist consummerist society, "real social life" itself somehow acquires the features of a staged fake, with our neigh
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• From Proto-Reality to the Act
  [[identity]], Schelling's ultimate [[goal]] is to bring the two together, demonstratin ...spite my 'ostensibly [[left]]-wing stance', condemned to a [[vision]] of [[social]]
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• Psychoanalysis and Post-Marxism
  ...onsense motif of "infinite complexity." Advocates of "anti-essentialist" [[identity]] [[politics]], for example, tend to stress that there is no "[[woman]] in ...rence to some metaphysical a priori leads to catastrophic "totalitarian" [[social]] consequences, the only solution is to accept that we live in a new era de
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• The Big Other Doesn't Exist
  ...t]] of [[modernity]], up to the deconstructionist notion that our sexual [[identity]] is a [[contingent]] socio-symbolic [[formation]]: the moment this prohibi ...ble if one replaces "grain" with some feature which determines my symbolic identity. Look at what occurs in our daily dealings with the bureaucratic hierarchy?
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• Reflections of Media, Politics and Cinema
  ...y are not the first but the second. This might be a part of the Japanese [[identity]], if you look at the way they borrow languages. ...n of nationalist writers, whose [[obsession]] it is how to retain national identity and a anti-capitalist, right wing movement is very dangerous.
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• Civil Society, Fanaticism, and Digital Reality
  [[social]] movements of Eastern and Central [[Europe]], is a researcher at the Insti nationalist writers, whose [[obsession]] is how to retain national [[identity]], and an
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• Have Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri Rewritten the Communist Manifesto for the XXI 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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• Hysteria and Cyberspace
  ...ring a broad area from [[Hitchcock]] and Lynch to [[horror]] stories and [[science]] [[fiction]]. The [[philosopher]] from [[Ljubljana]], [[Slovenia]] became ...ds to be a heterosexual [[woman]], or whatever: either I can build a new [[identity]] for myself or in a more [[paranoiac]] way, I am somehow already controlle
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• Anarchy
  ...veloped here. Certain Lacanian [[concepts]], when applied to political and social discourse, allow one to explore a number of dimensions crucial to radical p ...be [[understood]] in terms of an abstract [[position]] or [[place]] in the social, and as having their own structural imperative - that of [[self]]-perpetuat
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• Never Mind the Bollocks
  ...d so on. [[Third]] feature is the popular culture connection, Hitchcock, [[science]] fiction, detective novels etc. All that I formulated in those years of th ...d that saw the gradual collapse of the old regime and the mobilising of '[[social]] movements' into the political pluralism that characterises contemporary
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• Enjoy your Zizek
  ...en [[about]] the obscene rules that sustain our supposedly [[civilized]] [[social]] practices. With lightning speed , he moves from the decline of British [[ ...e gives a standing-room-only lecture on the [[erotic]] forces at play in [[science]] [[fiction]]. The audience is a diverse group, with hip, nose-ring-studded
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• Slavoj Zizek: An Introduction
  ...g these binaries as absolutely necessary. He's rendering a whole domain of social life that does not fully conform to prevalent gender norms as psychotic and ...tique of Zizek's reading of Hegel. Dews targets Zizek's argument that 'the identity of the subject consists in nothing other than the continual failure of self
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• Slavoj Žižek's Third Way
  ...y [[instance]] is that of early Zizek ally and critic of [[postmodern]] "[[identity]]" politics Ernesto [[Laclau]]. As Laclau writes in the [[exchange]] betwee ...e are confronted with is their [[speculative identity]]. Upon what is this identity founded? Why are all choices within our given ideological co-ordinates fund
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• Paul Ricoeur
  ...ed in 1984, 1985, and 1988. Building on the [[discussion]] of narrative [[identity]], as well as Ricœur's continuing interest in the [[self]], Ricœur presen * ''Political and Social Essays'', ed. David Stewart and Joseph Bien, trans. Donald Stewart et al. A
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