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• Welcome to the Desert of the Real (Essay)
  ...al gangs? One cannot resist the temptation to recall here the [[Freudian]] opposition of the public Law and its [[obscene]] [[superego]] [[double]]: are, along t ...[sign]] of things returning to normal.) Furthermore, if one perceives this opposition through the lenses of the Hegelian struggle between Master and Servant, one
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• Can Lenin Tell Us About Freedom Today
  ...]] largely rests upon their [[rejection]] of the standard Marxist-Leninist opposition of "[[formal]]" and "actual" freedom: as even Leftist liberals like Claude ...gh [[Clinton]]'s presidency epitomizes the Third Way of the today's (ex-)[[Left]] succumbing to the Rightist ideological [[blackmail]], his healthcare refo
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• The Matrix, or, Two Sides of Perversion
  ...the Sun, the supreme Good, but the desolate "desert of the real." The key opposition is here the one between Frankfurt School and Lacan: should we historicize t ...same logic, suffice it to recall the splitting of our political space into Left and Right: a Leftist and a Rightist behave exactly like members of the oppo
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• Human Rights and Its Discontents
  ...ony intended. I think the [[Christian]] legacy is all too precious to be [[left]] to, well, Christians themselves. So what I want to do is, in the first pa ...udes discernible in the [[history]] of [[religions]] along the axis of the opposition between the [[global]] and the [[universal]]: On the one hand, there is the
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• Ethnic Dance Macabre
  ...st, even if it means the neglect of elementary democratic principles. This opposition, not the one between [[capitalism]] and [[socialism]], is what defines the ...his background, a [[multitude]] of myths flourished. For the "democratic [[left]]", Tito's Yugoslavia was the mirage of the third way of self-management, b
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• For a Leftist Appropriation of the European Legacy
  ...] society and relations of production in [[Marxism]]) suspends the classic opposition of [[Sein]] and Sollen, of [[Being]] and Ought, of that which Is and the [[ ...de, narrates the story of his being hired to find a man who had suddenly [[left]] his settled job and [[family]] and vanished. Spade is unable to track him
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• Psychoanalysis in Post-Marxism: The Case of Alain Badiou
  ...stages]] of the generation-corruption cycle, or with the standard Platonic opposition of Soul and Body. For Paul, "Life" and "Death," Spirit and Flesh, designate ...ent. The interesting thing to note here is how Badiou inverts the standard opposition of universal Law and accidental Grace (or charisma), that is, the idea that
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• A Leftist Plea for 'Eurocentrism'
  ...]], or, The [[Cultural]] [[Logic]] of Multinational [[Capitalism]]," New [[Left]] Review 225 (Sept.-Oct. 1997): 28-51.</ref> It is a phenomenon that appear ...Forum of the East German Neues Forum, the body that coordinated democratic opposition, a de facto representative of [[civil society]]. Four items made up the pro
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• Have Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri Rewritten the Communist Manifesto For the Twenty-First Century
  ...se-[[value]] and [[exchange]] value: in capitalism, the potentials of this opposition are fully realized, the [[domain]] of exchange-value acquires [[autonomy]], ...mit]] the destructive powers of globalization and to rescue (what there is left to rescue) the [[welfare]] state. This standard [[leftist]] view is imbued
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• The Leninist Freedom
  ...argely rests upon their [[rejection]] of the standard [[Marxist]]-Leninist opposition of “formal” and “actual” freedom: as even [[Leftist]] liberals like ...gh Clinton’s presidency epitomizes the [[Third]] Way of today’s (ex-)[[Left]] succumbing to the Rightist [[ideological]] [[blackmail]], his health-care
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• Seize the Day: Lenin's Legacy
  The [[left]] is undergoing a shattering [[experience]]: the progressive movement is [[ ...erence towards mass [[suffering]], but discussing the fate of the Worker's Opposition in 1921, she does note that "this was [[another]] example of Lenin's [[sing
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• A Plea for Leninist Intolerance
  ...na like these make it all the more necessary today to reassert [[Lenin]]'s opposition of "[[formal]]" and "actual" freedom. Let us then fearlessly evoke Lenin at ...ilure to put [[Marxism]] into [[practice]], for the big catastrophe that [[left]] its mark on twentieth-century world [[politics]], for the [[real]] social
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• The Iraq War: Where is The True Danger
  ...[[future]] secretary of [[NATO]], after George Robertson), while the main opposition to the [[participation]] of Poland in the anti-Iraq coalition comes from th
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• The Stellar Parallax: The Traps of Ontological Difference
  ...the transcendental subject is a pure formal-structural function beyond the opposition of the noumenal and the phenomenal.<br><br> ...reliance. What we need to do is to make a step further from this external opposition (or mutual reliance) into the direct internalized overlapping, which means:
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• A Glance into the Archives of Islam
  ...when, in the course of the Crusades, the West let itself be caught in the opposition to it and thus started to resemble it, instead of delivering itself – in ...phallus]], the [[organ]] of paternal insemination, in order to explain the opposition of the two possible readings of the proposition "the [[Spirit is a Bone|Spi
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• The Obscenity of Human Rights: Violence as Symptom
  ...to, since we cannot do it otherwise. Which is why today's worry of the [[Left]]ists that revolution will not occur, that [[global]] capitalism will just ...mitment of [[France]] to the [[Rights of Man]] in the end, and to mimic an opposition to Greater Serbian fascism, all in giving it free rein. <ref> Rony Bauman,
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• Over the Rainbow Coalition!
  ...s]] versus lawyers, bankers, large companies) is transposed/coded into the opposition of honest hard-[[working]] Christian [[true]] Americans versus the decadent ...] which are operative in today's social [[processes]]. The failure of this opposition to function as the key to social [[totality]] does not only mean that it sh
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• Smashing the Neighbor's Face
  ...[[content]] in which the universal consists is asserted, all others are [[left]] to be in their particular ways of life. However, this stance nonetheless ...rld, my assertion of the wider reality within which I can only thrive. The opposition of egotism and altruism is thus overcome: I fully am not as an isolated Sel
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• Is There a Proper Way to Remake a Hitchcock Film?
  ...of [[Shakespeare]]'s plays, with the original archaic [[English]] on the [[left]] page and the [[translation]] into common contemporary English on the [[ri ...sture as in Wagner's last operas, the gesture of threateningly raising the left hand:
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• The Iraqi MacGuffin
  ...this very military _triumphÆ not the ultimate proof of the fact that the opposition to war was JUSTIFIED, that Iraq was NOT a threat to the US? Saddam's regime ...litary tribunal in Nuremberg after [[World War II]], the court faces stiff opposition from the [[United States]], [[Russia]], and China. The United States says t
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