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• Heiner Mueller Out of Joint
  ...a "normal" Western capitalist society (maybe with a stronger Scandinavian social-democratic flavor).<br><br> ...ng called the "[[Cultural]] Revolution" as the condition of the successful social revolution. What, exactly, does this mean? The problem with hitherto revolu
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• Death's Merciless Love
  ...thrift at the opposite extreme from prodigality, and then, of course, to [[construct]] some middle term - say, prudence, the art of moderate expenditure, avoidi ...s epochs, the consumption of drugs was simply one among the half-concealed social practices, practiced by real (de Quincey, Baudelaire) and fictional (Sherlo
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• Some Politically Incorrect Reflections on Violence in France
  ...e depriving the younger generation of immigrants of any clear economic and social prospect, thus leaving them violent outbursts as they only way to articulat ...id not do it because Harry is the richest man in town, nor because he is a social climber, and certainly not because he is [[Catholic]] - and yet all these r
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• The Antinomies of Tolerant Reason: A Blood-Dimmed Tide is Loosed
  ...rent way of life (or, rather, way of <i>jouissance</i> materialized in its social practices and rituals) disturb us, throw off the rails the balance of our w
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• Are We in a War
  ...ch is why the big problem and task of the political struggle is to provide/construct a recognisable image of the enemy. ([[Jews]] are the enemy par excellence n ...' is thus elevated to become the hidden point of equivalence between all [[social evils]]. How, then, are we to break out of this predicament?
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• Parallax View
  ...our passive sensible perceptions) AND the purely intelligible content-less construct of an X without any support in our senses.</ref> ..."real" is here not the actual arrangement, but the traumatic core of some social antagonism which distorts the tribe members' view of the actual arrangement
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• Why We All Love to Hate Heider
  ...the 'legitimate' democratic political bloc in the Western world. From the social democratic Third Way to the Christian conservatives, from Chirac to Clinton ...Left. Therein resides the ultimate rationale of the Third Way: that is, a social democracy purged of its minimal subversive sting, extinguishing even the fa
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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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• Against The Double Blackmail
  ...l respect a certain minimum of [[ethical]] (and, hopefully, also health, [[social]], ecological) standards? However, the situation is more [[complex]], and t ...dment will be a recourse to a collective Bakhtinian carnivalization of the social [[life]]... And the Western counterpoint to this [[obscenity]] is the more
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• It Doesn't Have to Be a Jew
  ...Spinozist signifier. Even in our everyday political experiences when we [[construct]] the enemy, we depict [[danger]] as the one who overidentifies. This is th ...is contradictory desire. Do we have a [[name]] for the [[system]], for a [[social]] system that tries to accomplish precisely this? Capitalism and organic un
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• Are We in a War? Do We Have an Enemy?
  ...ch is why the big problem and task of the political struggle is to provide/construct a recognisable image of the enemy. ([[Jews]] are the enemy par excellence n ...' is thus elevated to become the hidden point of equivalence between all [[social evils]]. How, then, are we to break out of this predicament?
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• Historicism
  ...d heavily, [[Karl Marx]]. The term is also associated with the empirical [[social]] [[sciences]] and the [[work]] of [[Franz Boas]]. ...hip]] between individuals and societies as organic, not atomic: even their social [[discourse]] is mediated by [[philosophy of language|language]], and [[lan
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• I am a fighting atheist
  ...t-[[World War II]] ideological consensus around anti-[[fascism]], with a [[social]] [[solidarity]] built around the [[welfare]] state. It's an open question ...ith him recently told me that Chomsky announced that he'd concluded that [[social theory]] and [[economic]] theory are of no use — that things are simply e
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• Psychoanalysis and the Post-Political
  [[structure]] . . . [[social]] phenomena . . . ?" larger problem: What kinds of [[political]] [[ontology]]--what manner of social
  63 KB (10,146 words) - 21:35, 20 May 2019
• Slavoj Žižek: What is a Master-Signifier
  ...d so on. For example, in 1930s [[Germany]] the [[Nazi]] [[narrative]] of [[social]] reality won out over the socialist-revolutionary narrative not because it ...applies not only to reality but to those ideological systems by which we [[construct]] reality. That is, again following the analogy of Saussure's conception of
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• Slavoj Zizek: Live Theory
  ...smelling one's sweat or picking one's nose (AF, 80), but the slightly more social ones of watching pornography (PF, 177-80), engaging in cybersex (IR, 191-3) ...essarily fails, because no one signifier can speak for the entirety of the social; but each group looks for an explanation of this failure to some external a
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• Stalinism
  ...carnival proper and the Stalinist purges? In the first case, the entire [[social]] hierarchy is momentarily suspended, those who were up are down and vice v ...is [[excess]] itself was nonetheless generated by a precise dynamic of the social struggle, by a series of shifting alignments and realignments between the v
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• History
  ...endency of some authors to overlook factors ([[cultural]], [[economic]], [[social]], etc.) operating [[outside]] of individual [[psychic]] functioning. ...both, the [[temporal]] [[dimension]] is essential. Both admit that they [[construct]] their [[object]] of study through the combined use of techniques for gath
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• Overview
  ...is the resulting desintegration of the big Other, the communal network of social institutions, customs and laws. For Zizek, the big Other was always dead, i ...correlative to the demise of the big Other. Its disappearance causes us to construct an Other of the Other in order to escape the unbearable freedom its loss en
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• Sigmund Freud:Theories
  ...nvestigations into internal conflicts such as this led him to eventually [[construct]] the divisions of the mind now known as id, ego, and superego. ...student a release for the unconscious aggression, but it may also provide social approval for reinforcing the aggressive behavior in that context.
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