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• Articles/Alain Badiou/Highly Speculative Reasoning On The Concept Of Democracy
  ...m subjective topics. These are precisely the norms that will introduce the subject of "the good State" or the preferable State. In our present situation, that ..." acts upon philosophy as the description of a form of the State. There is no doubt about it. Accordingly, the categorization starts from state configura
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• Articles/Alain Badiou/On Contemporary Obscurantism
  ...es, that the subject's possible freedom is at stake – the freedom of the subject inasmuch as he or she falls prey to language, that summary of the symbolic ...ticles/]] [[Category:TheoryLeaks]] [[Category:TheoryLeaks.org]] [[Category:Archive]] [[Category:Library]] __NOAUTOLINKS__
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• Articles/Alain Badiou/Seven Variations On The Century
  ...ubject is necessarily measured by its historicity. In other words, it is a subject who resonates, in its composition, with the power of an event. This is one
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• Articles/Alain Badiou/What Is Love
  ...the masterpieces of this art as one of the highest testimonies of which a subject is capable when a truth traverses and constitutes it. ...''love is by no means given in the immediate consciousness of the loving subject''. The relative poverty of all that philosophers have declared of love der
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• Articles/Alain Badiou/Who Is Nietzsche
  ...d sense all come to falter in the trial posed by the act. Thus where it is no longer a question of values or of sense, but of what actively surpasses the ...of the figure of the subject. But in truth nihilism is not a figure of the subject; nihilism is the history of the remaining-absent of being itself, as histor
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• Articles/Jean-Luc Nancy/Clear Confusion
  ...nd in emails, cuddle a little. In terms of both sex and sentiment, it goes no further than that. ...student graduates and starts looking for work. After two years of looking, no job has yet appeared (university positions in literature being pretty rare
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• Articles/Slavoj Zizek/am-i-a-philosopher.html
  ...ch­ing on sci­en­ti­fic know­ledge"); and Hegel claims his thought is no longer a mere philo-sophy (love of wis­dom) but true wis­dom (know­ledg ...of axioms and rule in which no cos­mic mean­ing res­on­ates, there are no sac­red, lucky or damned num­bers. Pre­cisely as such, math­em­at­ics
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• Articles/Slavoj Zizek/antinomies-of-pure-sexuation.html
  ...rent? True, Kant admits antinomies, but only at the epistemological level, no as immanent features of the unreachable Thing-in-itself, while Hegel transp ...ntal meditation" where the term jut designate a higher spiritual awareness no longer constrained by empirical reality. But there are more interesting cas
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• Articles/Slavoj Zizek/beckett-as-the-writer-of-abstraction.html
  ...f we do it? – is the subject itself. And, again, this does not mean that subject is a kind of user's illusion which persists only insofar as it doesn't know ...et a'' (as the stand-in for a lack) is the objectal correlate of the empty subject, that which causes anxiety. Back to ''Winterreise'' : ''objet a'' of the na
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• Articles/Slavoj Zizek/beckett-with-lacan.html
  ...[3] The obvious link is that the first line of the first text ("Suddenly, no, at last, long last, I couldn't any more") echoes the famous last line of T ...ssity stands for the fidelity to Truth, impossibility for a situation with no truth, possibility for the possibility of a truth-procedure to exhaust its
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• Articles/Slavoj Zizek/cogito-in-the-history-of-madness.html
  ...tion in Bataille), they remain within the field they try to leave behind. No wonder, then, that Foucault reacted so violently to Derrida's critical anal ...''malin'' ''génie'') as well as in Kant (his notion of the transcendental subject emerged from the critique of Swedenborg, whose religious dreams stand for m
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• Articles/Slavoj Zizek/coke-as-objet-petit-a.html
  ...pitalist merchandise and, as such, as surplus-enjoyment personified. It is no surprise that Coke was first introduced as a medicine – its strage taste ...itself; following Nietzsche's path, Lacan emphasized how in anorexia, the subject does not simply 'eat nothing' – rather, she or he actively wants to eat t
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• Articles/Slavoj Zizek/in-defense-of-hegels-madness.html
  ...including all others, is grounded differentially, then there is ultimately no identity from which things are differentiated… This, incident ally, is an ...ces (the features which distinguish it from other signifiers) – there is no positivity in a signifier, it "is" only a series of what it is not. The cru
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• Articles/Slavoj Zizek/kant-and-sade-the-ideal-couple.html
  ...aw, i.e. the Kantian Law is a superego agency that sadistically enjoys the subject's deadlock, his inability to meet its inexorable demands, like the proverbi ...ich desire itself (i.e. acting upon one's desire, not compromising it) can no longer be grounded in any "pathological" interests or motivations and thus
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• Articles/Slavoj Zizek/kant-avec-althusser.html
  ...outside, in bodily gestures, or from the inside, as beliefs, and there is no intermediate space or passage between the two. Nevertheless, (theatrical) c ...law, subject the actors in a given situation to obvious pressure, there is no longer any need to make a show of this force; there may be more to be gaine
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• Articles/Slavoj Zizek/lacan-as-a-reader-of-hegel.html
  ...tiest, because it mediates in our time between the care-ridden man and the subject of absolute knowledge.<u>1</u> ...ossible") character of the Real that forever resists symbolization, on the subject's unsurpassable separation from the cause of its desire? Is not the best de
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• Articles/Slavoj Zizek/love-beyond-law.html
  ...hich obscures the truth of desire; the irreducibly decentred status of the subject), it is well worth the while to elaborate them. ...nger merely a narcissistic (mis)recognition to be opposed to desire as the subject's 'truth' but a unique case of direct asexual sublimation (integration into
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• Articles/Slavoj Zizek/marx-as-a-reader-of-hegel-hegel-as-a-reader-of-marx.html
  ...en neglected) historical root of his thesis about the "end of art": art is no longer an adequate medium for expressing such a "prosaic" disenchanted real ...zed law is a regressive move from organic unity to alienation (the norm is no longer experienced as part of my substantial ethical nature, but as an exte
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• Articles/Slavoj Zizek/pathological-narcissus.html
  ...tructural analysis; Kernberg defines four basic features of the borderline subject: ...h are merely a means to satisfy a "lower" aim (in high social circles, the subject can boast merit and considerable knowledge – nevertheless, he gives the i
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• Articles/Slavoj Zizek/plato-descartes-hegel-three-philosophers-of-event.html
  ...contrast to Aristotle's notion of the slave as a "talking tool," there is no place for slaves in Plato's ''Republic''), Plato was the main ideologist of ...cogito'', while appearing gender- neutral, effectively privileges the male subject (only the masculine mind deals with clear and distinct thought, while the f
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