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  • The Act
    ...act”, by which the subject “[[structures]] his [[perception]] of the [[world]] in advance in a way that opens the [[space]] for his intervention”, and ...lished “the impossible”, for his Act revealed a crack in the Stalinist world [[communist]] movement by [[another]] communist (''E!'': 46). Similarly, Le
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  • Jouissance
    ''Jouissance'' is not a central preoccupation during the first part of ...of the 1960s is not the same as his use of [[the Real]] in the 1980s, the first [[concepts]] emerge in this seminar. Here ''jouissance'' is considered in
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  • Phallus
    Freud had his first intuition of the primacy of the phallus as early as 1905 in "[[Three]] essa ...gan]], although it clearly carries those connotations. The [[phallus]] is first and foremost a [[signifier]] and in [[Lacan]]'s [[system]] a particularly p
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  • Symbolic
    ...[[Claude Lévi-Strauss|Lévi-Strauss]] the [[idea]] that the [[social]] [[world]] is [[structured]] by certain [[law]]s which regulate kinship relations an ...c order the [[totality]] is called a universe. The symbolic order from the first takes on its [[universal]] [[character]]. It isn't constituted bit by bit.
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  • Desire
    A first ingredient of the concept of desire in Lacan's work contains a [[Hegelian]] ...much because the other holds the key to the object desired, as because the first [[object of desire]] is to be recognized by the other. (Lacan, 1977 [1959],
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  • Lenin (revolutionary)
    ...olutionary]] of [[Russia]], the [[leader]] of the [[Bolshevik]] party, the first [[Premier of the Soviet Union]], and the main theorist of what has come to ...[Greek language|Greek]]. Two tragedies occurred early in his [[life]]. The first occurred when his [[father]] died of a [[cerebral haemorrhage]] in [[1886]]
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  • Louis Althusser
    ...ižek’s is constructed. In [[order]] to see this relationship, we should first say a bit [[about]] Althusser’s conception of ideology. ...result of the interpellative process, in so far as this is placed on the [[world]] by consciousness-as-interpellated. Althusser misses this, according to Ž
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  • Demand
    ...an [[instinct|instinctual signal]] but is "inserted in a [[synchronic]] [[world]] of cries organized in a symbolic [[system]]."<ref>{{S4}} p. 182, 188</ref
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  • Cathexis
    ...in the [[psychoanalytic]] [[vocabulary]] of the [[English]]-[[speaking]] [[world]].
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  • Psychosis
    ...shes a new, often very intense, relation with the people and things in the world by way of a delusional [[formation]]. ...h concerned a [[psychotic]] [[woman]] whom [[Lacan]] calls [[Aimée]] that first led [[Lacan]] to [[psychoanalytic theory]].<ref>{{1932}}</ref> It is commo
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  • Object
    [[Part-object]]s are essential features of the [[fantasy]] [[world]] constructed by the [[child]], and are endowed with '[[good]]' and '[[bad] ...ove or [[hatred]]. At the very beginning of [[psychic]] life, the external world, the object, and what is hated are identical (the object emerges in hatred)
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  • Melancholia
    ...cterized by profound sadness and [[lack]] of interest in the [[outside]] [[world]]. Melancholia brings [[about]] a [[form]] of [[pessimism]] that sees the [ ...[paranoia]], in which [[libidinal]] [[hatred]], projected onto the outside world, reverts back onto the subject in the form of depressed [[feelings]] of bei
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  • Instinct
    ...ng that this is to suppose a [[harmonious]] relation between man and the [[world]], which does not in fact [[exist]].<ref>{{Ec}} p. 88</ref> The concept of
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  • Reality Principle
    According to [[Freud]], the [[psyche]] is at first regulated entirely by the [[pleasure principle]], which seeks to [[experien ...[[form]] a conception of the [[real]] circumstances in the [[external]] [[world]]."<ref>[[Freud|Freud, Sigmund]]. "Formulations on the Two Principles of [[
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  • Fantasy
    ...hat consumes desire and therefore occupies the fantasy of the subject must first fall prey to the [[illusion]] that it is more than its pragmatic material. ...political [[ideologies]] serve to give subjects a means of envisioning the world in which such a failure emerges as evidence as to how transcendent is their
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  • Adaptation
    ...Innenwelt]]'' (inner [[world]]) and ''[[adaptation|Umwelt]]'' (surrounding world).
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  • Beautiful Soul
    ...gnise his very own raison d'Ítre in the disorder that he denounces in the world' (E, 70). In a more extreme way, the beautiful soul also illustrates the [[ ...reated as an [[object]] of [[exchange]] by the men around her, [[Freud]]'s first [[intervention]] is to confront her with her own complicity in this exchang
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  • Chance
    * ''[[automaton]]'', which refers to chance events in the [[world]] at large, and
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  • Signifying Chain
    ...s relation to not only the mother, but to all [[other]] [[objects]] in the world, naturalising [[alienation]] as an existential condition since all such rel ...one path through the network of signifiers which constitutes the symbolic world of the subject (which Saussure designates 'associative' relationships, and
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  • Phobia
    ...he stresses the [[difference]] between phobia and anxiety: anxiety appears first, and the phobia is a defensive [[formation]] which turns the anxiety into f ...using an [[Imaginary]] object (the horse) to reorganise the [[Symbolic]] [[world]] of Hans and thus [[help]] him to make the passage from the [[Imaginary]]
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  • Passage to the Act
    ...ation, the passage to the act results from an overflowing of the fantasy [[world]] into reality because an element of reality has impinged on the fantasy sc
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  • Scene
    ...out his [[fantasy]], which is built on the edifice of the [[real]] (the [[world]]). ...ene]] of a play is framed by the proscenium arch in a theatre, whereas the world is a [[real]] space which lies beyond the [[frame]].<ref>{{F}} ''[[Seminar
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  • Jacques Lacan:Chronology
    In 1953, [[Lacan]] begins his first [[public]] [[seminar]] in [[Hôpital Sainte-Anne]]. ...Lacan]] is [[born]] in Paris ([[France]]) (95 boulevard Beaumarchais), the first [[child]] (eldest son) of (prosperous, bourgeois [[parents]]) [[Alfred Laca
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  • The Indivisible Remainder: An Essay on Schelling and Related Matters
    ...with their repeated attempt at the formulation of the ‘beginning of the world,’ of the passage from the pre-symbolic pulsation of the Real to the unive ...idealist who for too long dwelled in the shadow of Kant and Hegel, was the first to formulate the post-idealist motifs of finitude, contingency and temporal
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  • The Fragile Absolute, or Why the Christian Legacy is Worth Fighting For
    Saint Paul's militant declaration from Corinthians asserts for the first time in human history the revolutionary logic of a radical break with the p ...2000th anniversary of one who was well aware that to practice love in our world is to bring in the sword and fire.
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  • The Art of the Ridiculous Sublime
    The Art of the Ridiculous [[Sublime]] is first of all the detailed [[reading]] of [[David Lynch]]'s The Lost Highway, base ...s pose tough questions [[about]] the ways in which we [[understand]] our [[world]] and [[culture]]. He offers provocative readings of [[Casablanca]], Schind
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  • The Spectre is Still Roaming Around
    [[world]] of late [[capitalism]] - a world in which the brutal imposition of
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  • The Fright of Real Tears
    ...tianity]], Gothicism and the "progressive digitalisation of our [[life]]-[[world]]."
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  • The Abyss of Freedom
    of the [[World]], Michigan: [[University]] of Michigan Press. Reprising much of the [[material]] from the first part of The Indivisible
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  • The Subject
    ...i’, but as an empty [[space]], what is [[left]] when the rest of the [[world]] is expelled from itself. ...c]] [[order]] is what substitutes for the [[loss]] of the immediacy of the world, and is where the [[void]] of the subject is filled in by [[subjectivizatio
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  • Real2
    ...r forestalled. […] The real is more forcible than anything else in the [[world]], yet it is phantasmal, shallow and fortuitous. […] The real is inward a ...ptions into the other two orders, unsettling their modes of organising the world and insisting on its equal, if rather more obscure, [[place]] in the Borrom
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  • Seminar III
    ...he-Father, that is, the metaphor that puts this Name in the place that was first [[symbolized]] by the operation of the [[mother]]'s [[absence]]." It desig
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  • The reverse of psychoanalysis
    ...Father, a father to whom Lacan opposes both the Father presiding over the first [[idealization]] - the one deserving love - and the Father who enters the [ * all together, four discourse structures; already inscribed in the [[world]], making it appear as it is
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  • Totem and Taboo
    [[Totem and Taboo]] is Sigmund [[Freud]]'s first [[work]] on group [[psychology]]. The analogy unfolds in [[three]] parts, starting in the first essay where the resemblance between the two is related to the [[horror]] of
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  • Future of an Illusion
    At first, Freud begins by explaining religion in a similar term to that of [[totemis ...of the [[father-complex]], and represents man's [[helplessness]] in the [[world]], having to face the ultimate fate of [[death]], the [[struggle]] of civil
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  • Civilization and Its Discontents
    ...[Sigmund Freud]] in the decade preceding his [[death]] in [[1938]]. It was first published in [[German language|German]] in [[1930]] as ''Das Unbehagen in d ...osited in ''[[Totem and Taboo]]'' and the [[idea]] of a [[death instinct]] first developed in ''[[Beyond the Pleasure Principle]]''.
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  • Main PageX
    ...dard image editing tool in the industy, used by professionals all over the world. Very expensive.
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  • Psychiatry
    ...been the [[subject]] to extended debate. Do not make changes to it without first obtaining consensus on Talk:Psychiatry. -->Most psychiatric illnesses canno Whatever the circumstance of their patient's referral, a psychiatrist first assesses their patient's mental and somatic (i.e. general medical) conditio
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  • Ego Psychology
    ...es shape as a result of the conflict between the id and the [[external]] [[world]]. The ego, therefore, is inherently a conflicting [[formation]] in the mi
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  • Semiotics
    ...make predictions [[about]] and [[adapt]] to their semiotic niche in the [[world]] (see [[Semiosis]]). Semiotics theorises at a general level about ''[[sign ...1704]]), who, in "[[An Essay Concerning Human Understanding]]" ([[1690]]), first coined the term "semeiotike" from the Greek [[word]] σημειον or ''se
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  • Object Relations Theory
    ...d]]" in [[children]], has suggested that the [[formation]] of [[mental]] [[world]] is enabled by the [[infant]]-parent interpersonal interaction which was t
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  • Eric Santner
    <blockquote>To use a [[Heideggerian]] locution, our throwness into the [[world]] does not simply mean that we alwasy find ourselves in the midst of a [[so
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  • Publicity's Secret
    ...sphere, in which all [[processes]] are [[transparent]], reduces [[real]]-[[world]] politics to the drama of the secret and its discovery. --This [[text]] re
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  • Zizek's Politics
    ...much needed critical introduction to the political thought of one of the [[world]]'s most widely known and eccentric thinkers.
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  • Sigmund Freud
    ...e him a proper education. As a result, Freud did extremely well during his first 8 years of [[school]], but at the age of 17, he had to move to the [[Unive ...mholtz]], and [[Herbart]].<ref name="Bowlby">{{cite book | last = Bowlby | first = John | title = Attachment and Loss: Vol I, 2nd Ed. | publisher = Basic Bo
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  • Critical theory
    ..." becoming an umbrella term for an array of theories within the academic [[world]] of the United Kingdom and the [[United States]]. This article focuses pr The first [[meaning]] of the term ''critical theory'' was that defined by [[Max Hork
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  • Giorgio Agamben
    ...''zoe'') and was akin to the [[tattooing]] that the [[Nazis]] did during [[World]] War II. ...''State of Exception'' (2005), [[rule by decree]] has became common since World War I in all modern states, and has been since then generalized and abused.
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  • Hannah Arendt
    ...enters on the fact that "men, not Man, live on the earth and inhabit the [[world]]." ...on of parts of France following the [[French]] declaration of war during [[World War II]], and the deportation of [[Jews]] to concentration camps, Arendt ha
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  • Roland Barthes
    ...dmother raised him in the French city of [[Bayonne]] where he received his first exposure to [[culture]], learning piano from his musically gifted aunt. Wh ...examinations. However, it also kept him out of military service during [[World War II]], and, while [[being]] kept out of the major French universities me
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  • Capitalism
    ...ies, tolerating no rival at its side. Yet at the same time it is also the first mode of economy which is unable to [[exist]] by itself, which [[needs]] oth ...se to a [[situation]] in which “it is easier to imagine the end of the [[world]] than a far more modest [[change]] in the mode of production, as if [[lib
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  • Deconstruction
    ...y resistant to [[formal]] definition. [[Martin Heidegger]] was perhaps the first to use the term (in contrast to [[Friedrich Nietzsche|Nietzschean]] demolit ...156.) Thus, viewed in this way, "the term 'deconstruction', refers in the first [[instance]] to the way in which the 'accidental' features of a text can be
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  • Jacques Derrida
    ...ncluded that Derrida eradicates any [[referent]] and, in an auto-created [[world]] of self-referential textuality, celebrates a free play of differences wit ...the other two. To understand Antigone’s act, Žižek explains, one must first note that the monstrous [[Thing]] only becomes a “fellow human like me”
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  • Event
    ...ions]] must be met for us to perceive something as really existing? In a [[world]] that’s constantly changing, is anything new really happening? Drawing o
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  • Frantz Fanon
    ...His works have inspired anti-colonial liberation movements throughout the world for more than four decades. ...on the communist ticket as a parliamentary delegate from Martinique to the first National Assembly of the Fourth Republic. Fanon stayed long enough to comp
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  • German Idealism
    ...ossible. The mind plays a central [[role]] in influencing the way that the world is experienced. It is this [[notion]] that was taken to heart by Kant's phi ...hing-in-itself that exists outside of the mind. By presenting the external world as an object of faith, Jacobi legitimized belief and its theological [[asso
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  • Alfred Hitchcock
    ...ee and promote his films as artistic masterworks. Hitchcock was one of the first directors to whom they applied their auteur [[theory]], which stresses the ...nting family's upstairs apartment falls under heavy suspicion. This is the first truly "Hitchcockian" film, incorporating such themes as the "wrong man".
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  • Samuel P. Huntington
    ...Huntington believes that this cultural organization better describes the world than the classical [[notion]] of variegated sovereign [[state]]s. ...to legitimize [[aggression]] by the US-led West against [[China]] and the world of Islam. However, Huntington has also argued that this shift in geopolitic
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  • Søren Kierkegaard
    ...anish]] [[philosopher]] and [[theologian]], is generally recognized as the first [[existentialism|existentialist]] philosopher. He bridged the gap that exi ...nd I will be careful to preserve [his [[memory]]] safely hidden from the [[world]]."''<ref name="Dru">Dru, Alexander. ''The Journals of Søren Kierkegaard'
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  • Emmanuel Lévinas
    ...[[Freiburg]], as well as by [[Judaism|Jewish religion]]. He was one of the first intellectuals to introduce to France the [[work]] of [[Heidegger]] and [[Hu ...stance are both strongly felt. Upon the revelation of the face a person's first [[natural]] [[desire]] is to [[murder]] the Other. At the same [[time]], t
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  • Jacques-Alain Miller
    ...hoanalysis vis-à-vis [[government]] [[control]] in [[France]]. He wrote ''First [[Letter]] addressed by Jacques-Alain Miller to An Enlightened Public'', "C ...a and around Columbia University in New York. In 1992 Miller set up the [[World Association of Psychoanalysis]], WAP, in [[order]] to advance Lacan's teach
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  • Orders
    Of these [[three]] [[terms]], the 'imaginary' was the first to appear, well before the Rome Report of 1953. [[The imaginary]] was then the [[world]], the [[register]], the [[dimension]] of [[images]], [[conscious]] or [[un
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  • Jacques Lacan:Sexual Difference
    First, he was concerned to distinguish [[sexual]] [[difference]] on the basis of ...acan's thinking on feminine sexuality is distinguished by two main phases: first, he was concerned to distinguish [[Sexual Difference|sexual difference]] on
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  • Logic of Sexuation
    According to Freud, the first law of society was thus imposed by the sons on themselves as a result of th Women instead not only [[know]] there sis more to the [[world]] than the signifier, but they try, often with the gfreatest determination,
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  • Lacanian Psychoanalysis
    ...hidden [[structure]] which resembles that of language. Knowledge of the [[world]], of [[others]] and of self is determined by language. Language is the pre ...] and therefore of laws, language and organization. Lacan contends that at first the child does not merely desire contact with the mother and her care; it w
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  • Jacques Lacan:Oedipus
    ...cribes the source of this [[complex]] in his Introductory Lectures (Twenty-First Lecture): "You all [[know]] the Greek legend of King [[Oedipus]], who was d The phallus is first and foremost a signifier and in Lacan's [[system]] a particularly privilege
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  • Jacques Lacan:Real
    ...y paradoxical [[concept]]; it supports our [[social reality]] - the social world cannot [[exist]] without it - but it also undermines that reality. A furthe ...ut it was relatively underdeveloped. Lacan used the term, the real, in his first published papers in the 1930s, but in these early [[texts]] it was essentia
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  • Politics
    ...ch denies the represive force of our subjection to the [[symbolic]] in the first [[place]]: "So the [[paradox]] is that 'liberal' [[subjects]] are in a way ...political [[agent]], however, it expresses a resolve to change hte way the world is, no matter at what personal [[code]].
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  • Liberalism
    But this new [[world]] of freedom described by [[people]] like Ulrich Beck, who say everything i
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  • The One Measure of True Love Is: You Can Insult the Other
    ...ript="urn:my-script-blocks"><i>You also say that the elites in our Western world are losing their nerve. They want to throw out all old concepts like humani ...le simply say: 'What's the problem? Let's throw ourselves into the digital world, into the internet, or whatever….' They really miss what is going on here
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  • The passion of the real
    ...be what defined the twentieth century, which really began with the First [[World]] War. We all [[remember]] the war reports by Ernst Jnger, in which he p
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  • Post-Politics
    ...hat [[idea]]. And, paradoxically, only very few are ready to question this world.
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  • Postmodern Racism
    ...e Arabs', though he did retract a couple of days later. Falwell said the [[World]] Trade Centre bombings were a [[sign]] that God no longer protects the USA
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  • Clash of Civilizations
    ...e Arabs', though he did retract a couple of days later. Falwell said the [[World]] Trade Centre bombings were a [[sign]] that God no longer protects the USA
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  • Freedom
    But this new [[world]] of freedom described by [[people]] like Ulrich Beck, who say everything i
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  • Violence
    ...isturbingly [[tragic]] in this [[idea]] of the wealthiest country in the [[world]] bombing one of the poorest countries. It reminds me of the well-known [[j ...olence, give peace a [[chance]] — is abstract and doesn't [[work]] here. First, because this is not a [[universal]] rule. I always ask my [[leftist]] frie
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  • War
    ...isturbingly [[tragic]] in this [[idea]] of the wealthiest country in the [[world]] bombing one of the poorest countries. It reminds me of the well-known [[j ...olence, give peace a [[chance]] — is abstract and doesn't [[work]] here. First, because this is not a [[universal]] rule. I always ask my [[leftist]] frie
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  • September 11
    ...rtunity to admit that it is not special, but simply and truly part of this world.' That's the big choice. ...t to do more of the same but to think about what is really changing in our world.
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  • Repeating Lenin (Essay)
    ...r the big catastrophe which [[left]] its mark on the entire XXth century [[world]] [[politics]], for the [[Real]] Socialist experiment which culminated in a ...nstant reference to the [[holocaust]], gulag and the more [[recent]] Third World catastrophes is thus to serve as the support of this Denkverbot by constant
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  • Welcome to the Desert of the Real (Essay)
    ...ling off the deceiving layers of reality. Already in the trenches of the [[World]] War I, Carl [[Schmitt]] was celebrating the face to face combat as the au ...and the exceptional "empty" element (the socialist "New Man," which is at first [[nothing]] but an empty [[place]] to be filled up with positive [[content]
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  • Welcome to the Desert of the Real-2
    ...acking Afghanistan cannot but strike the eye: if the greatest power in the world will destroy one of the poorest countries in which peasant barely survive o ...is a fake, a [[spectacle]] staged to convince him that he lives in a real world, while all [[people]] around him are effectively actors and extras in a gig
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  • Self-Deceptions
    ...cial [[regime]], we still implicitly conceive conflicts in the [[Third]] [[World]] countries as a subspecies of natural catastrophies, as outbursts of quasi
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  • Can Lenin Tell Us About Freedom Today
    There are two features which distinguish his [[intervention]]. First, one cannot emphasize enough the fact of Lenin's [[externality]] with [[reg ...is significant that the work in which Lenin's unique [[voice]] was for the first [[time]] clearly heard is What Is To Be Done? - the [[text]] which exhibits
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  • The Matrix, or, Two Sides of Perversion
    ...n how our world is just a mirage generated by a global Mind embodied inthe World Wide Web. This series goes back to Plato's Republic: does The Matrix not re Reaching the End Of the World
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  • Human Rights and Its Discontents
    ...nates in the millions of anonymous [[workers]] sweating in the [[Third]] [[World]] factories, from Chinese gulags to Indonesian assembly lines. In their inv ...[[left]] to, well, Christians themselves. So what I want to do is, in the first part of my talk, to propose a certain [[reading]] of [[Christianity]], aimi
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  • Cynicism as a Form of Ideology
    ...this concept of ideology as a naive consciousness still apply to today's [[world]]? Is it still operating today? In the Critique of Cynical [[Reason]], a gr ...ign of cynical reason, we find ourselves in the so-called post-ideological world? Even [[Adorno]] came to this conclusion, starting from the premiss that id
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  • Reflections of Media and Politic and Cinema
    ...Western metaphysics of presence. It's a no less phantasmic Japan then the first one. We know that Eisenschtein for his montage of attractions used Japanese ...this was of course the other way round. Then there is the Kojevian Japan. First for Kojeve the end of history was Russia and America, the realization of th
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  • Woman is One of the Names-of-the-Father
    ...rson criticized by [[Spinoza]]: in their endeavour to [[understand]] the [[world]] around them by way of formulating the network of causal connections betwe The first operation of the critique of ideology is therefore to recognize in the fasc
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  • It Doesn't Have to be a Jew
    ...rds]], in the big [[media]]-constructing the enemy has two objectives. The first is fanatic, [[irrational]] [[fundamentalism]], which is of course why the W ...dea]] was that these movies expressed a kind of [[nostalgia]] for the lost world, where it was still naively possible to believe in devils. This is a more r
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  • Hidden Prohibitions and the Pleasure Principle
    ...was a kind of [[false]] leap, but if your question implies that today's [[world]] is paradoxically closer to the neo-Spinozist universality of the signifie ...niversal, objective, knowledge statement. This is for me today's Spinozist world, especially in the [[United States]]. For example, every can, every package
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  • Ethnic Dance Macabre
    THE [[world]] today is more and more marked by the frontier separating its insiders fro ...the one between [[capitalism]] and [[socialism]], is what defines the "new world [[order]]". The socialist bloc was a desperate attempt at modernisation [[o
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  • For a Leftist Appropriation of the European Legacy
    Let us take an example from the opposite part of the [[world]], from Japan, where the caste of the untouchables is called the burakumin: ...ntion': totalitarianism is an inherent [[perversion]] of democratic logic. First, we have the traditional [[Master]] who grounds his [[authority]] in some t
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  • The Cyberspace Real
    ...er the role of Hitler, develops the atomic bomb in [[time]] and wins the [[World]] War II.) ...[[present]] us with such hypertext / alternate reality experience: in the first version, the boy "freely accept the necessary," subjecting himself to the o
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  • From Joyce-the-Symptom to the Symptom of Power
    ...[[history]] and endeavours to understand what is effectively going on. The first [[thing]] to note about the film is that Gump is ideology at its purest: th ...lectuals who are no longer able to believe in any social [[Cause]] are the first to fall prey to "fanatical" ethnic [[fundamentalism]]. The link between cyn
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  • Desire:Drive = Truth:Knowledge
    ...notion of reinscribing scientific drive into the constraints of the life-[[world]] is fantasy at its purest--perhaps the fundamental fascist fantasy. Any li ...dd that science is perhaps "real" in an even more radical sense: it is the first (and probably unique) case of a discourse that is strictly nonhistorical ev
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  • Psychoanalysis in Post-Marxism: The Case of Alain Badiou
    ...s [[structure]] which allows us to "count" it "as One." Here, however, the first cracks in the ontological edifice of Being appear: in order for us to "coun ...lian]] [[distinction]] between bad ("spurious") and [[true]] infinity: the first refers to the commonsense infinite complexity, while the second concerns th
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  • The Lesbian Session
    ..." causing its [[symbolic]] [[death]] and the subsequent rebirth of the New World.
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  • The Spectre Is Still Roaming Around!
    The first, automatic reaction of today's enlightened [[liberal]] reader to The [[Comm ...e is that of "[[globalization]]": the brutal imposition of a [[unified]] [[world]] [[market]] that threatens all local ethnic traditions, including the very
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  • When the Party Commits Suicide
    ...t have here, enacted in [[real]] [[life]], the uncanny logic of Josef K.'s first interrogation in The Trial? -</p> ...d deceive&nbsp; the party one last time before dying, before leaving the [[world]]. That, Comrade Bukharin, is the underlying reason for these last suicides
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  • Welcome to the Desert of the Real-3
    ...ulminates in the millions of anonymous [[workers]] sweating in [[Third]] [[World]] factories, from Chinese gulags to Indonesian or Brazilian assembly lines
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  • Have Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri Rewritten the Communist Manifesto For the Twenty-First Century
    ...s catching up I the guise of ecological catastrophes, poverty, [[Third]] [[World]] diseases in collapse of social life, mad cow disease. ...ts as its [[goal]], [[writing]] the [[Communist]] Manifesto for the twenty-first century. Hardt and Negri describe [[globalization]] as an ambiguous "deterr
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  • Seize the Day: Lenin's Legacy
    In 1914, an entire [[world]] disappeared, taking with it not only the bourgeois [[faith]] in [[progres ...ky's [[thesis]], formulated in the 1920s, that the [[logical]] form of the first [[stage]] leading from [[capitalism]] to [[socialism]] would be a parliamen
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  • A Plea for Leninist Intolerance
    ...ty]] itself, have to be renegotiated or reinvented.<ref>See Ulrich Beck, [[World]] [[Risk Society]], trans. Mark Ritter (Oxford, 1999).</ref> Perhaps the pr ...ialismus, not more than obvious where the fault of this reasoning resides? First, it reduces a historical constellation to a closed, fully contextualized si
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  • Gerhard Schroeder's Minority Report and Its Consequences
    ...able percentage of American people and congressmen. Schroeder was thus the first to get the [[full]] taste of the Bush doctrine — and, to pursue the homol ...l flaw: what if the attacking side counts on the fact that, even after its first strike, the opponent continues to act as a rational [[agent]]? His choice i
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  • The Iraq War: Where is The True Danger
    ...chosen [[instrument]] of distributing this gift to all the nations of the world! ...democracy to Iraq, which will then serve as [[model]] for the entire Arab world, enabling people to get rid of the corrupt regimes, immediately faces an in
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  • From 'Passionate Attachments' to Dis-Identification
    The first [[thing]] to take note of here is that Butler seems to conflate two radical ...figuration of fantasy would be Clint Eastwood's Dirty Harry series. In the first [[film]], the masochist fantasy in all its ambiguity is almost directly ack
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  • You May
    ...map of another, imaginary anatomy. Much of this [[projection]] is racist. First, there is the old-fashioned, unabashed [[rejection]] of the Balkan Other (d ...generate new guilts and [[anxieties]], instead of opening up a brave new [[world]] in which we can [[enjoy]] shifting and reshaping our multiple identities?
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  • The Stellar Parallax: The Traps of Ontological Difference
    ...but me, I am also in the picture": <a name="2"></a><a href="#2x">2</a> the first part of this Lacan's statement designates subjectivization, the dependence ...ndings in modern literature). However, for the novel's second edition (the first printing was a failure), Fitzgerald tried to improve it by rearranging the
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  • Hegel - Chesterton: German Idealism and Christianity
    ...[[world]]. Mohammedanism is, therefore, in the strictest [[sense]] of the world, the religion of sublimity."<ref>[[G.W.F. Hegel]], <i>[[Philosophy]] of [[M ...k: the triad that offers itself is that of Judaism - Christianity - Islam: first the immediate/abstract monotheism which, as the price to be paid for its im
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  • A Glance into the Archives of Islam
    ...self between the two, preventing the rise of a harmonious hermaphroditic [[world]] [[civilization]] – with its interposition, the West lost its last chanc ...] of the world. Mohammedanism is, therefore, in the strictest sense of the world, the religion of sublimity. [[A Glance into the Archives of Islam#Notes|2]]
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  • The Obscenity of Human Rights: Violence as Symptom
    ...als of the [[Enlightenment]] are inherent and crucial, the "[[administered world]]" is the [[truth]] of Enlightenment, the XXth century [[concentration camp ...e very [[moment]] when those who professed to believe in it were for the [[first time]] confronted with people who had indeed lost all other qualities and s
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  • With or Without Passion
    ...pt the [[real]] in its idiocy, to disavow it and to [[search]] for Another World behind it. The big [[Other]] is thus the order of lie, of lying sincerely. ...xplanation of how beliefs emerge, it itself calls for an explanation. The first thing to specify is that Pascal's "Kneel down and you will believe!" has to
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  • Move the Underground!
    ...onscious]] and has to be reconstructed as the [[missing]] link between the first and the last scene). Schumann brings this procedure of absent melody to an ...to his limbs, standing on a [[chair]] in a ridiculous theatrical pose, my first reaction was that this was a shot of some latest performance art show in Lo
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  • Over the Rainbow Coalition!
    ...e]] when somebody unexpectedly declared passionate love to us - is not the first reaction, preceding the possible positive reply, that something [[obscene]] ...Gibson's film makes clear the [[impossibility]] of such a solution. Gibson first wanted to shoot the film in [[Latin]] and Aramaic and to show it without su
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  • Christians, Jews and Other Criminals: A Critique of Jean-Claude Milner
    ...towards unification (not only of Europe, but also of Europe and the Arab [[world]]).<br><br> ...very [[concept]] of Europe is tainted with anti-Semitism, which is why the first [[duty]] of Jews is to "get rid of Europe," not by ignoring it (only US can
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  • Opera
    However, the first problem here is that, even if accurate, such insights do not contribute muc ...tan turns into "Wanderer" - a figure of the Wandering Jew like already the first great Wagnerian hero, the Flying Dutchman, this "Ahasver des Ozeans."<br><b
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  • Homo Sacer as the Object of the Discourse of the University
    ...he [[threat]] of transcendent powers which parasitize on it, end up in a [[world]] in which, on behalf of its very [[official]] [[goal]] — long pleasurabl ...rofiteering: it is OK IF it is counteracted with charitable activities — first you amass billions, then you [[return]] (part of) [[them]] to the needy…
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  • Too Much Democracy?
    ...ould bring democracy to Iraq, but not impose it immediately - there should first be a period of five or so years in which a benevolently-authoritarian US do
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  • Smashing the Neighbor's Face
    ...rimordial fact, and 'I" should never lose my grounding in this irreducibly first-person relationship to the other which should go to extreme, if necessary - ...a usurper? What is [[signified]] by the advent of conscience, and even the first spark of spirit, if not the discovery of corpses beside me and my [[horror]
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  • Reloaded Revolutions
    ...o with the image of the ruins of Chicago, he simply says "This is the real world!", i.e., what remained of our reality outside the Matrix after the catastro ...kening is not the opening into the wide space of the external reality, but first the horrible realization of this enclosure, where each of us is effectively
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  • Biopolitics: Between Terri Schiavo and Guantanamo
    ...ure]] of [[masochist]] [[perversion]]: the succession is inverted, you are first punished and thus gain the right to commit the crime. If the Guantanamo pri ...ms in our own societies not signal how the same distrust towards the Third World countries: not only are they not able to do our torturing for us, they even
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  • Passion In The Era of Decaffeinated Belief
    ...untly, something in Islam resists the acceptance of the liberal-capitalist world order. It is here that a truly radical analysis should break with the stand ...ull passion explains why, today, "culture" is emerging as the central life-world category. Religion is permitted — not as a substantial way of life, but a
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  • The Matrix: The Truth of the Exaggerations
    ...orld]] is just a mirage generated by a [[global]] [[Mind]] embodied in the World Wide Web... ...s not the opening into the wide [[space]] of the [[external]] reality, but first the horrible realization of this enclosure, where each of us is effectively
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  • When Straight Means Weird and Psychosis is Normal
    ...characters who [[people]] his previous films? What if, in our postmodern [[world]] in which the radical ethical commitment is perceived as ridiculously out
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  • Is There a Proper Way to Remake a Hitchcock Film?
    <font face="courier" size="-1">My first [[thesis]] is that this unique dimension is not to be sought primarily at t ...s abyssal depth repeats itself and resonates at a [[multitude]] of levels: first as a purely [[formal]] motif of the abstract [[form]] emerging out of the c
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  • The Iraqi MacGuffin
    ...ce used for killing leopards in the Scottish highlands.' [[Naturally]] the first man says, 'But there are no leopards in the Scottish highlands.' 'Well,' sa ...t I will find [[material]] proofs that will justify my [[punishment]]!" So first you punish, and then you look for proofs of the crime... Not to mention the
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  • Iraq's False Promises
    ...a friend accuses you of returning a borrowed kettle broken, your reply is, first, that you never borrowed the kettle; second, that you returned it unbroken; ...ion's [[public]] justifications for the U.S. attack on Iraq in early 2003. First, the administration claimed that [[Saddam]] Hussein possessed weapons of ma
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  • The Iraqi Borrowed Kettle
    ...two series, this term is given a different ideologico-[[political]] twist: first the "normal" need to maintain international trade, then the ruthless determ ...t I will find [[material]] proofs that will justify my [[punishment]]!" So first you punish, and then you look for proofs of the crime... Not to mention the
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  • What Rumsfeld Doesn't Know That He Knows About Abu Ghraib
    ...raib was thus not simply a case of American arrogance toward a [[Third]] [[World]] [[people]]. In [[being]] submitted to the humiliating tortures, the Iraqi
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  • Heiner Mueller Out of Joint
    The first [[thing]] one can reproach him with is that he succumbed to the temptation ...ionable style of the late 30s and 40s, suggests that the [[three]] great [[world]] systems - the emerging New Deal capitalism, [[Fascism]], and Stalinism -
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  • Death's Merciless Love
    ...e knows very well what she is doing, and, nonetheless, he does it." If the first formula covers the traditional hero and the second one the early modern her ...n notion of agape that points towards the way out: "For God so loved the [[world]] that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not
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  • Objet a as Inherent Limit to Capitalism
    ...ltitude]] in the heart of [[capitalism]] "makes democracy possible for the first [[time]]" <tt><b><a name="3x"></a><a href="#3">3</a></b></tt> Till now, de ...ment of multitudes will be transubstantiated the sudden [[birth]] of a new world: "After this long season of [[violence]] and contradictions, global civil w
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  • Some Politically Incorrect Reflections on Violence in France
    The first conclusion to be drawn is thus that both conservative and liberal reactions ...the counter-pole to "terrorist" attacks is the US military neo-colonial [[world]]-policing; the counter-pole to Rightist Populist violence is the Welfare S
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  • The Antinomies of Tolerant Reason: A Blood-Dimmed Tide is Loosed
    ...ng certain external “mechanical” rules, without sharing their “inner world” – and, perhaps, the lesson to be learned is that, sometimes, a dose of
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  • Nobody Has to Be Vile
    ...evitable fate – that, as the [[official]] slogan puts it, ‘[[another]] world is possible.’ It seems, however, that the Porto Alegre reunions have some 2. You shall [[change]] the world, not just sell things.
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  • The Two Totalitarianisms
    ...Neumann’s <em>Behemoth</em> (1942), which suggested that the three great world-systems – [[New Deal]] [[capitalism]], [[Fascism]] and [[Stalinism]] –
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  • Knee-Deep
    <i>Free [[World]]: Why a Crisis of the West Reveals the Opportunity of Our [[Time]]</i> by ...s of the disintegration of [[Eastern Europe]]an [[Communism]]. In <i>Free World</i> he has taken the same perspicuous and bitterly witty approach to the co
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  • Attempts to Escape the Logic of Capitalism
    ...up serving those who 'realistically' argue that any real change in today's world is impossible. This [[reversal]] is not a betrayal of his original ethical
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  • Are We in a War
    ...[[Torture]]' (5 November 2001), with the ominous subheading: 'It's a new [[world]], and survival may well require old techniques that seemed out of the ques ...ut even as we continue to speak out against human-rights abuses around the world, we need to keep an open mind about certain measures to fight terrorism, li
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  • Ethics and the Real
    ‘’L’objet’’ designates an object in the human [[world]]; as such, the “object” is thoroughly determined by signifying chains In his Critique of [[Practical]] [[Reason]], first published in 1788, [[Kant]] argues that ethical judgment ultimately refers
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  • Seminar VII
    ...who have to recognize it. Who am I? "You are the waste that falls in the world through the devil's anus." However, salvation holds on by a thread: the th
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  • Mother
    ...[Freud]]'s account of the '''[[Oedipus complex]]''', the [[mother]] is the first '''[[love]] [[object]]''' of the [[child]]; it is only the [[intervention]] ...ing, and [[being]] devoured by, the [[mother]]. [[Lacan]] argues that the first of the [[complex|family complex]]es is the [[complex|weaning complex]], in
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  • Master
    In the [[process]] of changing the [[world]] the [[master|slave]] changes himself and becomes the [[author]] of his ow
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  • Nature
    ...ses it to designate one term in the opposition, namely the [[nature|animal world]]. In this sense, [[Lacan]] adopts the traditional [[anthropology|anthropo <blockquote>In the [[human]] [[world]], even "those [[signification]]s that are closest to [[need]], [[significa
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  • The Ambassadors
    ...ly in the use of oil paint, a [[recent]] invention whose [[technique]] was first taken advantage of by Flemish masters. What is most "Flemish" of Holbein's ...the astrolabe and [[other]] objects on the upper shelf), the [[living]] [[world]] (as evidenced by books and a musical [[instrument]] on the lower shelf),
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  • Castration
    [[Freud]] first used the term [[castration complex]] in 1908 in reference to an [[infantile ...iation of the incestuous [[object]] that it is possible to go out into the world and seek a partner other than the incestuous one. The prohibition of the pr
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  • Roger Caillois
    ...France]] in [[1939]] for [[Argentina]], where he stayed until the end of [[World War II|WWII]]. During the war he was [[active]] in fighting the spread of [
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  • Surrealism
    ...]] was a [[literary]] and artistic movement that emerged after the First [[World]] War in [[Paris]], its founding [[figure]] the writer and poet [[André Br ...which they saw as more '[[real]]' than the prosaic reality of our everyday world.
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  • Alexandre Kojève
    ...elm Friedrich Hegel]]'s [[work]], ''[[Phenomenology of Spirit]]''. After [[World War II]], Kojève worked in the [[French]] Ministry of [[Economic]] Affairs ...ense to be a philosopher at the end of history influencing the course of [[world]] events. In any [[case]], Kojève's contribution to international French e
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  • Voyeurism
    In an "omnivisual [[world]]," according to Jacques [[Lacan]]'s expression, the voyeur becomes the one
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  • Ex-sistence
    ...e]]. For [[Heidegger]], therefore, human [[consciousness]] is not an inner world of [[thoughts]] and [[images]] but a constant process of projecting [[outsi
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  • International Psycho-Analytical Association
    ...ieties]] that were springing up around the [[world]] at that [[time]]. The first headquarters were in [[{{G}}|Zurich]], and later moved to [[{{G}}|London]], ...s was the only way of assuring that his theories, misunderstood by all his first followers, would remain intact for someone else ([[Lacan]]) to disinter and
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  • Categorical Imperative
    ...s both required and justified as an end in itself. It is best known in its first formulation: ...ind a proof for freedom as evidence for a [[lack]] of it. The observable [[world]] could never contain an example of freedom because it would never show us
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  • Frankfurt School
    ...h [[Hegelianism]] that underlay Marx's thought: [[Marcuse]] was one of the first to articulate the [[theoretical]] [[significance]] of these [[texts]]. ==The First Phase==
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  • Thanks, But We’ll Do It Ourselves
    ...s of the [[outside]] world, when the adolescent Amish are thrown into this world unprepared, they cannot but indulge in extremely [[transgressive]] [[behavi ...one between the [[whole]] of the American global [[Empire]] (and its Third World colonies) and Europe.
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  • Administered World
    ...demption. …Perspectives must be fashioned that displace and estrange the world, reveal it to be, with its rifts and crevices, as indigent and distorted as
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  • Beloved
    ...e is the [[feminine]] of "[[Seth]]"- the [[Biblical]] '[[father]] of the [[world]]'. This can also be seen within Morrison's other works and has led to her ...herself. There are two potential [[interpretations]] of her character. The first is of her as the [[displaced]] [[child]] [[ghost]] in an [[adult]] [[body]]
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  • Blade Runner
    ...replicants are used for dangerous and degrading [[work]] in Earth's "off-[[world]] colonies." Built to be 'more [[human]] than human', they appear physicall ...became a cult classic. Its popularity as a video rental made it one of the first [[films]] to see a DVD release. Blade Runner has been hailed for its vision
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  • Carl Gustav Jung
    ...t]], [[mythology]], [[world]] religion and [[philosophy]]. Though not the first to analyze dreams, he has become perhaps the most well known pioneer in the ...ce and collaboration lasting more than six years and ending shortly before World War I in May [[1914]], when Jung resigned as the chairman of the Internatio
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  • The Night of the World
    What [[Hegel]] called the "Night of the [[World]]," the abyss of radical negativity. ...inning of Hegel's ''Jenaer Realphilosophie'' [[about]] the "[[night of the world]]"?
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  • Parallax View
    ...Job, in which the two perspective are confronted (the divine order of the world and Job's complaint), and neither is the "truthful" one - the truth resides ...the debate; his solution - the transcendental turn - is unique in that it, first, rejects the ontological closure: it recognizes a certain fundamental and i
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  • Supplement
    We have no access to the [[Real]] because our [[world]] is always mediated by the [[Symbolic]].
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  • Seduction
    ...gins with no [[history]] of [[sexual]] abuse" (1950c, p. 73). This was his first allusion to the role of sexual seduction, still very broad in its applicati In the first [[Freudian]] clinical [[doctrine]], the child at [[birth]] was naïve, inno
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  • René Descartes
    It is the science of the unconscious subject, and this subject first emerged in the seventeenth century with the founder of modern philosophy Re ...have to accept, as Descartes put it, that 'there was nothing at all in the world: no sky, no earth, no minds or bodies' (1968 [1642]: 103).
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  • The Liberal Communists of Porto Davos
    ...not our fate, that, as their [[official]] slogan has it, “[[another]] [[world]] is possible.” Lately, however, the Porto Alegre reunions seem to have l ...rld, to really revolutionize our lives. Didn’t [[Marx]] say that all the world’s political upheavals paled in comparison with the invention of the steam
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  • Give Iranian Nukes a Chance
    ==''In a Mad World, the Logic of MAD Still Works''== ...ation of the [[enemy]] is an unexpected [[reflexive reversal]]. In this [[world]] without a clearly identified enemy, it is the [[United States]], the prot
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  • Thanks, But We'll Do It Ourselves
    ...s of the [[outside]] world, when the adolescent Amish are thrown into this world unprepared, they cannot but indulge in extremely [[transgressive]] [[behavi ...one between the [[whole]] of the American global [[Empire]] (and its Third World colonies) and Europe.
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  • How Much Democracy Is Too Much?
    ...tates]] should bring democracy to Iraq, but not immediately. There should first be a period of five or so years in which a benevolently authoritarian, U.S.
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  • The Desert of the Real
    is any [[symbolism]] in the collapse of the [[World]] Trade Center, it is [[separation]] between the digitized First World and the [[Third]] World’s
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  • Today, Iraq. Tomorrow ... Democracy?
    ...]] recently declared: "The liberty we prize is not America’s gift to the world, it is God’s gift to humanity." Indeed, and the United States just happe ...bout what sort of role the [[United States]] intends to play in the twenty-first century."
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  • Ideology Reloaded
    ...orld]] is just a mirage generated by a [[global]] [[Mind]] embodied in the World Wide Web. Or the series is a baroque illustration of Plato’s cave, in whi ...Did you know that the first Matrix was designed to be a perfect [[human]] world? Where none suffered, where everyone would be happy? It was a disaster. No
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  • Learning To Love Leni Riefenstahl
    ...n, and strength of will in sport as well as in [[politics]]. Then, after [[World]] War II, in her photo albums, she rediscovered her [[ideal]] of bodily bea
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  • Passion: Regular or Decaf?
    ...fiteering: It is fine IF it is counteracted with charitable activities — first you amass billions, then you [[return]] (part of) them to the needy. The sa ...s [[vision]] makes clear the [[impossibility]] of such a solution. Gibson first wanted to shoot the film in [[Latin]] and Aramaic and show it without subti
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  • What Does Europe Want? (article)
    ...asure of cultural masterpieces that wait to be acknowledged by the wider [[world]]. Maybe, this treasure is too fragile to survive intact the exposure to th However, this simplified picture is not the entire [[truth]]. The first complication: The very ex-Communist countries which are the most ardent sup
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  • The Free World ... of Slums
    ...of post-[[Communist]] [[Eastern Europe]]. In his new book, <i>The Free [[World]]: America, [[Europe]] and the Suprising [[Future]] of the West</i>, [[Ash] [[Hegel]] was among the first to [[interpret]] the geographic [[triad]] of [[Germany]]-[[France]]-[[Engla
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  • The Not-So-Quiet American
    ...mericans are now doing: exporting their [[revolution]] around the entire [[world]]. No wonder they moved from “containing” the [[enemy]] to a more [[ag ...is the almighty [[God]]’s [[gift]] to every [[man]] and [[woman]] in the world,” his [[apparent]] [[modesty]] nonetheless concealed, in the best [[total
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  • Catastrophes Real and Imagined
    ...his disagreement with the way others saw the future—and thus he was the first to get the [[full]] taste of the Bush doctrine.<br><br> ...l flaw: What if the attacking side counts on the fact that, even after its first strike, the opponent continues to act as a rational [[agent]]? His choice i
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  • The Subject Supposed to Loot and Rape
    ..., won, that the [[search]] is over, that the advent of a global, liberal [[world]] [[community]] lurks just around the corner, that the obstacles to this ul ...conomy|economic]] [[globalization]]. This new [[racism]] of the developed world is in a way much more brutal than the previous one: Its implicit legitimiza
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  • The Liberal Waterloo
    The first reaction of progressives to [[Bush]]’s second victory was that of despair ...ns]], moves U.N. headquarters to Babylon where he imposes an anti-American world [[government]] that disarms all [[nation-state]]s. This ridiculous plot un
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  • Revenge of Global Finance
    ...se — a universe that includes a [[Reagan]]esque [[vision]] of the Free [[World]] versus the [[Evil Empire]]; the retreat of the [[Nation]] States, which c ...y [[unified]] "[[symbolic]]" [[community]] of believers, [[Christ]] had to first come and perform the [[Holy Spirit]]’s separating "diabolic" founding ges
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  • Somewhere Over the Rainbow
    ...The key question is thus: why is "culture" emerging as our central life-[[world]] [[category]]? We no longer "really believe," we just follow (some of the) ...tion]]" is used in the [[recent]] ideological offensive is exemplary here: first, an abstract opposition is constructed between "modernizers" (those who end
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  • The Constitution is Dead - Long Live Proper Politics
    ...e allowed, solicited even, to go out and experience the ways of the modern world - they drive cars, listen to pop music, watch TV and get involved in drinki ...s of discipline and fantasising about the illicit pleasures of the outside world, the adolescent Amish are thrown into it, of course they cannot help but in
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  • The Politics of Jouissance
    ...fers to an obscure Unnameable. Even [[Nazi]] [[anti-Semitism]] opened up a world: by way of describing the [[present]] critical [[situation]], naming the [[
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  • The Empty Wheelbarrow
    ...n, that the [[search]] is over, that the advent of a [[global]], liberal [[world]] [[community]] lurks just around the corner, that the obstacles to this Ho ...] 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
    ...ory's setting - a [[particular]] provincial [[environment]]. In a global [[world]], a detective story can take [[place]] almost literally ANYWHERE: there ar ...d into the [[universe]] of his Wallander novels; this [[big Other]] of the World History has to remain in the background, as the distant [[Absent]] [[Cause]
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  • Passion in the Era of Decaffeinated Belief
    ...untly, something in Islam resists the acceptance of the liberal-capitalist world order. It is here that a truly radical analysis should break with the stand ...ull passion explains why, today, "culture" is emerging as the central life-world category. Religion is permitted — not as a substantial way of life, but a
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  • Are We Allowed To Enjoy Daphnée du Maurier?
    scenario is the first act of liberation: by means of it, the servant's masochistic [[libidinal]] the first step towards liberation. <a name="7"></a><a href="#7x">7</a> When we are su
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  • Liberation Hurts
    ...ners] as [[true]] believers, their belief is more complex that it appears. First, there are much more secular motivations at [[work]]. This is our Western [ ...etings are fake, usually, in the [[sense]] that, if we've just met for the first time, and I were to ask "How do you feel? How are you?" and you were to sus
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  • The State of Emergency Called Love
    ...ists choose a creed from all the creeds and a god from all the gods of the world, carefully weighing all the gods of inevitable recurrence and of unalterabl
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  • The Iraqui MacGuffin
    ...ce used for killing leopards in the Scottish highlands.' [[Naturally]] the first man says, 'But there are no leopards in the Scottish highlands.' 'Well,' sa ...es on their side, but would stick to air bombing.) Here, then, we have the first [[practical]] demonstration of what does the Bush [[doctrine]] of preventiv
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  • Homo Sacer as the Object of the University Discourse
    ...he [[threat]] of transcendent powers which parasitize on it, end up in a [[world]] in which, on behalf of its very [[official]] [[goal]] — long pleasurabl ...rofiteering: it is OK IF it is counteracted with charitable activities — first you amass billions, then you [[return]] (part of) [[them]] to the needy…
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  • The Desert and the Real
    ...a fake, a [[spectacle]] staged to convince him that he lives in a [[real]] world, while all [[people]] around him are effectively actors and extras in a gig ...ng an aseptic life in a secluded area longs for the experience of the real world of material decay.
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  • The One Measure of True Love is "You Can Insult the Other"
    ...September thrown new light on your diagnosis of what is happening to the [[world]]? ...y be what defined the twentieth century, which really began with the First World War. We all [[remember]] the war reports by Ernst J?nger, in which he prais
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  • Can Lenin Tell Us about Freedom Today
    There are two features which distinguish his [[intervention]]. First, one cannot emphasize enough the fact of Lenin's [[externality]] with [[reg ...is significant that the work in which Lenin's unique [[voice]] was for the first [[time]] clearly heard is What Is To Be Done? - the [[text]] which exhibits
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  • Why We All Love to Hate Heider
    ...tire spectrum of the 'legitimate' democratic political bloc in the Western world. From the social democratic Third Way to the Christian conservatives, from ...rd Way. My first reaction to the charge is: why not? If we look around the world today, we soon see how handy a dose of this out-of-date way of thinking can
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  • Desert of the Real
    ...ulminates in the millions of anonymous [[workers]] sweating in [[Third]] [[World]] factories, from Chinese gulags to Indonesian or Brazilian assembly lines
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  • Laugh Yourself to Death
    ...ve]] political [[agent]]? Second, it disqualifies forms of the [[Third]] [[World]] violations of [[human rights]] for which Western states are (co)[[respons ...lezze</i>, Lina Wertmueller's attempt at the holocaust comedy in 1975. The first [[thing]] to take note is AT WHAT does one laugh here: there are obviously
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  • The Thing from Inner Space
    ...from Inner Space than the very first [[scene]] of <i>[[Star Wars]]</i>? At first, all we see is the void - the infinite dark sky, the ominously silent abyss ...ne of the movie takes place when the [[spectral]] Harey reawakens from her first failed suicide attempt on Solaris: after ingesting liquid oxygen, she lies
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  • You May!
    ...map of another, imaginary anatomy. Much of this [[projection]] is racist. First, there is the old-fashioned, unabashed [[rejection]] of the Balkan Other (d ...generate new guilts and [[anxieties]], instead of opening up a brave new [[world]] in which we can [[enjoy]] shifting and reshaping our multiple identities?
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  • The Matrix, or, the Two Sides of Perversion
    ...n how our world is just a mirage generated by a global Mind embodied inthe World Wide Web. This series goes back to Plato's Republic: does <i>The Matrix</i> Reaching the End Of the World<br><br>
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  • NATO, the Left Hand of God? (Essay)
    ...nal law." This "higher law" has its "deepest roots outside the perceptible world." "While the state is the work of man, man is the work of God." In other wo ...e Serbs were at that time the only state-building nation. After the Second World War, Tito wanted to replace this Serb-dominated Yugoslavia with a federal o
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  • Against The Double Blackmail
    ...to disintegrate when the Slovene "secession" triggered the domino-effect (first Croatia, then Bosnia, Macedonia...); it was already at the [[moment]] of Mi ...], [[Kurds]] in [[Turkey]], etc.etc? Here, of course, we enter the shady [[world]] of international [[capital]] and its strategic interests.
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  • From Proto-Reality to the Act
    human passions), while the Jewish [[religion]], with its iconoclasm, was the first to prohibit? It is the Jewish God who is the first fully personified God, a God who says 'I
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  • Psychoanalysis and Post-Marxism
    ...s [[structure]] which allows us to "count" it "as One." Here, however, the first cracks in the ontological edifice of Being appear: in order for us to "coun ...lian]] [[distinction]] between bad ("spurious") and [[true]] infinity: the first refers to the commonsense infinite complexity, while the second concerns th
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  • Desire: Drive = Truth: Knowledge
    ...notion of reinscribing scientific drive into the constraints of the life-[[world]] is fantasy at its purest - perhaps the fundamental fascist fantasy. Any l ...dd that science is perhaps "real" in an even more radical sense: it is the first (and probably unique) case of a discourse that is strictly "nonhistorical"
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  • Reflections of Media, Politics and Cinema
    ...[[metaphysics]] of [[presence]]. It's a no less phantasmic Japan then the first one. We [[know]] that Eisenschtein for his montage of attractions used Japa ...s was of course the [[other]] way round. Then there is the Kojevian Japan. First for [[Kojeve]] the end of [[history]] was [[Russia]] and America, the reali
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  • It Doesn't Have to Be a Jew
    ...rds]], in the big [[media]]-constructing the enemy has two objectives. The first is fanatic, [[irrational]] [[fundamentalism]], which is of course why the W ...dea]] was that these movies expressed a kind of [[nostalgia]] for the lost world, where it was still naively possible to believe in devils. This is a more r
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  • Human Rights and its Discontents
    ...w." This "higher law" has its "deepest roots [[outside]] the perceptible [[world]]." "While the state is the [[work]] of man, man is the work of God." In [[ ...e Serbs were at that time the only state-building nation. After the Second World War, Tito wanted to replace this Serb-dominated Yugoslavia with a federal o
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  • The Spectre Is Still Roaming Around
    The first, automatic reaction of today's enlightened [[liberal]] reader to The [[Comm ...e is that of "[[globalization]]": the brutal imposition of a [[unified]] [[world]] [[market]] that threatens all local ethnic traditions, including the very
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  • Civil Society, Fanaticism, and Digital Reality
    crises coming: the ecological, the developed against the underdeveloped [[world]] </p><p><b>Zizek:</b> First I must say that I don't have my own positive theory about
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  • Hidden Prohibitions And The Pleasure Principle
    ...was a kind of [[false]] leap, but if your question implies that today's [[world]] is paradoxically closer to the neo-Spinozist universality of the signifie ...niversal, objective, knowledge statement. This is for me today's Spinozist world, especially in the [[United States]]. For example, every can, every package
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  • From "Passionate Attachments" to Dis-identification
    The first [[thing]] to take note of here is that Butler seems to conflate two radical ...figuration of fantasy would be Clint Eastwood's Dirty Harry series. In the first [[film]], the masochist fantasy in all its ambiguity is almost directly ack
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  • Are We in a War? Do We Have an Enemy?
    ...[[Torture]]' (5 November 2001), with the ominous subheading: 'It's a new [[world]], and survival may well require old techniques that seemed out of the ques ...ven as we continue to [[speak]] out against human-rights abuses around the world, we [[need]] to keep an open [[mind]] about certain measures to fight [[ter
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  • Can Lenin Tell Us about Freedom Today?
    There are two features which distinguish his [[intervention]]. First, one cannot emphasize enough the fact of Lenin's [[externality]] with [[reg ...is significant that the work in which Lenin's unique [[voice]] was for the first [[time]] clearly heard is What Is To Be Done? - the [[text]] which exhibits
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  • Have Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri Rewritten the Communist Manifesto for the XXI Century?
    ...s catching up I the guise of ecological catastrophes, poverty, [[Third]] [[World]] diseases in collapse of social life, mad cow disease. ...ts as its [[goal]], [[writing]] the [[Communist]] Manifesto for the twenty-first century. Hardt and Negri describe [[globalization]] as an ambiguous "deterr
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  • Hysteria and Cyberspace
    ...s predominant use of [[conspiracy theories]] to [[interpret]] the modern [[world]]... ...]]-entity correctly, then it's a version of cyberspace I didn't mention. I first of all mentioned the deconstructionist version of cyberspace which is this
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  • Democracy
    ...growing consumerism of Western [[liberal]] democracies after the [[Second World War]] – as against its political institutions – represents a fairly pur
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  • The Future of an Illusion
    At first, Freud begins by explaining religion in a similar term to that of [[totemis ...of the [[father-complex]], and represents man's [[helplessness]] in the [[world]], having to face the ultimate fate of [[death]], the [[struggle]] of civil
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  • Illusion
    This [[pessimism]], or realism, is first associated with the illusion that lasting [[sexual]] [[satisfaction]] is po To the first [[category]] belongs art, which is said to evolve from [[magic]] and which,
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  • Self
    ...[word]] self in the general [[sense]] of [[representation]] of the inner [[world]]. We can...
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  • Historicism
    ...attributes the [[change]] to the "modern" [[need]] to interact with the [[world]], where as ancient [[philosophers]] were self-contained, and medieval phil ...dominion, and yet at the same time can [[construct]] for itself an inward world." {{fact}}
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  • Correspondence with Jacques Lacan (1963 - 1969)
    ...which plunged him into great turmoil, evidence of which can be seen in his first letters. ...ake his entry at the Ecole Normale Supérieure on January 15, 1964, with a first lecture on "[[excommunication]]."''<ref>Cf. Jacques Lacan, ''Séminaire XI:
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  • Works of Slavoj Zizek
    This is [[Zizek]]'s first major [[work]] in [[English]] and it remains one of his most accessible boo ...ed. If, on the [[other]] hand, you read The [[Sublime Object of Ideology]] first, you will be better able to grasp the subtleties of his arguments concernin
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  • The Sublime Object of Ideology
    ...takes a look at the question of [[human]] [[agency]] in a [[postmodern]] [[world]]. From the sinking of the ''Titanic'' to Hitchcock’s ''[[Rear Window]]''
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  • Slavoj Žižek - Bibliography
    * [[Zizek, Slavoj]]. '''''[[First As Tragedy, Then As Farce]]'''''. ...[The Abyss Of Freedom - Ages Of The World|The Abyss of Freedom/Ages of the World (The Body, In Theory: Histories of Cultural Materialism)]]'''''. Ann Arbor:
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  • The Abyss Of Freedom - Ages Of The World
    ...an English translation of Schelling's beautiful and evocative Ages of the World, second draft'' ...ith a commentary of the second draft of Schelling's work ''The Ages of the World'', written in 1813.
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  • Revolution at the Gates: Selected Writings of Lenin from 1917
    ...or the big catastrophe which left its mark on the entire twentieth-century world political scene?
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  • Interrogating the Real
    ...of the collected writings of [[Slavoj Žižek]] - undoubtedly one of the [[world]]'s leading contemporary [[cultural]] commentators, and one of the most ins ...and a helpful [[glossary]] for those coming to Žižek’s work for the [[first time]].
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  • The Neighbor: Three Inquiries in Political Theology
    ...ppress a [[feeling]] of surprise and bewilderment." After the horrors of [[World]] War II, the [[Holocaust]], [[Stalinism]], and [[Yugoslavia]], Leviticus 1
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  • Never Mind the Bollocks
    Recently, a different man broke the [[world]] endurance record of 1000 hours spent on the Big Dipper roller coaster rid ...that sustains our daily [[activity]]," and dissolves the parameters of the world in which it occurs. This exhilarating ride from the [[present]] into [[futu
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  • Enjoy your Zizek
    ...hich would later become <i>The [[Sublime Object]] of Ideology</i>. But his first [[marriage]], to a fellow Slovenian philosophy graduate student, had just e ...intend to publish his thesis in book form. The following night he had his first panic attack, which had all the symptoms of a heart attack. Eventually, he
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  • I am a fighting atheist
    ...taneously light-hearted and deep, invoked the [[dream]] of a post-Cold War world in which free [[thinking]] would transcend all borders.</p> ...ion between them reflects Zizek's [[real]] [[purpose]]: to make us see the world with fresh eyes. Unlike the vast majority of academic thinkers, Zizek is no
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  • Psychoanalysis and the Post-Political
    Antiquity." That is to say, why the laughter? The first possible during the 1980s, when you were first formulating your [[project]]?</i>
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  • Slavoj Zizek: Risking the Impossible
    ...or Schelling and Hegel it is the "right of the self" and the "night of the world" respectively. The point is that, in each of these cases, there is an incr ...n - the excess that engulfs symbolic coherence in an entropic night of the world - and the very drive towards subjectivation as a way of escaping such a con
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  • Slavoj Zizek: An Introduction
    ...cal Introduction</i> published by Pluto Press in London in March 2004. The first four chapters deal in detail with the formation and decomposition of Yugosl ...m scratch, now from the position of those who are encountering him for the first time. <br><br>
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  • Slavoj Žižek: What is a Master-Signifier
    ...ts there, it is their book <i>[[Hegemony]] and Socialist Strategy</i> that first oriented him in the use of the '[[Lacanian]] [[conceptual]] [[apparatus]] a ...ing reality - in that there is no single struggle that automatically comes first. As Zizek writes: 'Any of the [[antagonisms]], which in the light of Marxis
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  • Slavoj Zizek: Live Theory
    ...psychoanalytic concept of the phallus: 'What is the lightest object in the world? The penis, because it is the only one that can be raised by a mere thought ...vatory, the hole down which the shit disappears is up front, so that it is first laid out for us to inspect; in the traditional French lavatory, it is in th
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  • Slavoj Žižek's Third Way
    ...o authors were, of course, already well-known for their interventions in [[world]] [[political]] events, often [[writing]] responses in newspapers or on the ...us [[thesis]] 11 ("[[Philosophers]] have hitherto only [[interpreted]] the world; the point is to [[change]] it"):
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  • Literature
    ...uno Bettelheim's classic The Uses of Enchantment similarly exploited the [[world]] of fairy tales to illuminate [[child]] psychology, and vice versa. More r Between the world wars in the twentieth century, the politico-artistic school of [[surrealism
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  • Phenomenology
    ...kepticism, and finally phrenology, for which the mind's [[being]] in the [[world]] is literally a bone (the phrenologist Franz Joseph Gall claimed that bump ...n bracketed, in [[order]] to describe how the transcendent elements of the world, including [[other]] selves and [[cultural]] beings, appear in perception,
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  • Wilhelm Reich
    ...d [[free love]], Reich realized he was in [[danger]] and [[left]] Germany, first settling in [[Scandinavia]], then in 1939 in the [[United States]], where h ...ink, a fellow [[analyst]]-in-[[training]]. They [[married]], and had their first daughter, Eva, in 1924 and a second daughter in 1928, but Reich was unable
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  • Paul Ricoeur
    Ricœur's early years were marked by two main facts. First, he was [[born]] to a devout [[Protestant]] [[family]], making him a member [[World War II|WWII]] interrupted Ricœur's career, and he was drafted to serve in
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  • Erich Fromm
    ...s most popular book was ''The Art of Loving'', an international bestseller first published in [[1956]], which recapitulated and complemented the [[theoretic Central to Fromm's [[world view]] was his [[interpretation]] of the [[Talmud]], which he began studyin
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  • Hegemony
    ...mination by local [[power (international)|powers]], or domination of the [[world]] by a [[global]] power. China's position of dominance in [[East Asia]] for ...e|client]]s) battling to dominate the [[arms race]] and become the supreme world superpower. The details of the ideologies do come into play to the extent
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  • Defenders of the Faith
    ...igion is emerging as the wellspring of murderous [[violence]] around the [[world]], assurances that [[Christian]] or Muslim or Hindu fundamentalists are onl ...legacy, that of atheism? What makes modern Europe unique is that it is the first and only [[civilization]] in which atheism is a fully legitimate option, no
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  • A Plea for a Return to Différance (with a Minor Pro Domo Sua)
    ...arguably been the most ethnocentric group among all the cultures of the [[world]]" (<a href="#fn2" name="cfn2"><i>CC</i></a><i>,</i> p. 232). We should hav ...his line of argumentation is a simple empirical lie if there ever was one. First, I do not claim that the U.S. got what it deserved, but what it "fantasized
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  • The Last Hegelian: An Interview with Slavoj Zizek
    ...). Zizek ran as pro-reform candidate for the presidency of Slovenia in the first democratic election in 1990 and served as the Republic's ambassador of [[sc ...e to meet you." It's fake in the [[sense]] that, if we've just met for the first time, you would have the [[right]] to say, "Sorry, it's none of your busine
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