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• Semiotics
  ...] which semiotics attempts to [[analyse]] and so [[identify]] the systemic rules accepted by all the participants. ...of semiotic methods to reveal different levels of meaning and, sometimes, hidden motivations has led some to [[demonization|demonise]] elements of the subje
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• The One Measure of True Love Is: You Can Insult the Other
  ...nce, you are in an open situation. Today we can no longer simply apply old rules. We are engaged in paradoxes, which offer no immediate way out. In this sen ...y"/></td></tr><tr><td class="bodyp">The problem for me is how unfreedom is hidden, concealed in precisely what is presented to us as new freedoms. I think th
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• Repeating Lenin (Essay)
  ...ne can indulge in the jargonistic [[analyses]] of the modern art, with the hidden assurance that one is somehow retaining the link with the radical revolutio ...are really no common denominators in this initial struggle for discursive rules, and what we end up with is the inevitable comedy of each side muttering ir
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• The Matrix, or, Two Sides of Perversion
  ...elementary a belief into an "Other of the Other", into another Other who, hidden behind the Other of the explicit social texture, programs (what appears to ...nd is brought to extreme in quantum physics, where we are dealing with the rules/laws which function, although they cannot ever be retranslated into our exp
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• Human Rights and Its Discontents
  ...] that labor, hard work, is originally an indecent criminal activity to be hidden from the public eye. Significantly, we ask ourselves a simple question: Whe ...ur politically correct times. Are not the politically correct prohibitions rules which in one way or another are to be violated in the seduction process? Is
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• The Interpassive Subject
  ...vely not only in the spectacle, but more and more in establishing the very rules of the spectacle… Is, however, the other side of this interactivity not i ...resolutely feminine [[nature]] of what Hegel calls "Reason": "Look for the hidden Reason (which realizes itself in the [[apparent]] confusion of egotistic di
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• Woman is One of the Names-of-the-Father
  ...ody]] to this limit-we [[project]] into the personalized notion of God the hidden, unfathomable [[cause]] of all that cannot be [[understood]] and explained ...as full acceptance of the fact that I am really there, bound by the prison rules, opens up a space for true hope.<ref>This paradox points towards the delusi
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• For a Leftist Appropriation of the European Legacy
  ...ude: the attempt to de-antagonize politics by way of formulating the clear rules to be obeyed so that the agonic procedure of litigation does not explode in ..., i.e. the gentrification of politics proper in regulated [[agonism]] (the rules of elections and representative democracy, etc.); the totalitarian Master i
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• When the Party Commits Suicide
  ...power structure which directly treats ITSELF as an anonymous, [[secret]], hidden [[body]]. As such, the Khmer Rouge [[regime]] was a kind of [[political]] e ...e highest point of the terror in the Fall of 1937, the implicit discursive rules were broken by Stalin himself: in an all-against-all orgy of [[destruction]
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• The Iraq War: Where is The True Danger
  ...he future of [[international community]] which is at stake now — the new rules which will regulate it, what the new world order will be. What is going on ...n the midst of a "silent revolution," in the course of which the unwritten rules which determine the most elementary international logic are changing? The U
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• From 'Passionate Attachments' to Dis-Identification
  ...," relies for its performative power on the preestablished set of symbolic rules and/or norms. ...xposure and [[self-transparency]], i.e. the [[awareness]] that there is no hidden [[content]], makes the subject even more enigmatic. Sometimes, being totall
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• Move the Underground!
  ...ation was that the soldiers were not properly taught the Geneva convention rules about how to treat war prisoners - as if one has to be taught not to humili ...America: the standard escape route led to Northern Italy, where they were hidden for some time in some remote monasteries (or, in some cases, even in the Ci
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• Opera
  ...f <i>homo sacer</i>, i.e. ethnic-[[religious]] conflicts which violate the rules of [[universal]] [[human rights]], do not count as wars proper, and call fo ...tempted to risk the hypothesis that <i>La clemenza</i> is the obverse, the hidden truth, of <i>The Magic Flute</i>, its necessary shadowy double, the obscene
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• Homo Sacer as the Object of the Discourse of the University
  ...e 1968. Instead of the one [[symbolic]] [[Order]] with its set of a priori rules which [[guarantee]] social [[cohesion]], we get the [[matrix]] of the passa ...it into the [[subject]] ($). The "[[truth]]" of the university discourse, hidden beneath the bar, of course, is [[power]], i.e. the Master-[[Signifier]]: th
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• Passion In The Era of Decaffeinated Belief
  ...which we belong (recall the proverbial non-believing Jew who obeys kosher rules "out of respect for tradition"). "I do not really believe in it, it is just ...r profound self-realization...</i> Exemplary is here Donald Spoto's <i>The Hidden Jesus</i>, a New Age tainted "liberal" reading of Christianity, where we ca
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• The Act and Its Vicissitudes
  ...]/public [[text]] and its obscene initiatic supplement: in it, there is no hidden untold story. In this precise sense, Christianity is the religion of Revela ...en more pointedly, in more pathetic [[terms]], what God reveals is not his hidden power, but only his impotence as such.
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• The Iraqi MacGuffin
  ...spectors were searching for [[them]] in [[Iraq]], they were expected to be hidden in the most disparate and improbable places, from the (rather [[logical]] [ ...ng HERE as the result of the "[[war on terror]]." Instead of talking about hidden conspiratorial agendas, one should shift the focus onto what is going on, o
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• Heiner Mueller Out of Joint
  ...e invention of the desire called Utopia in the first place, along with new rules for the fantasizing or daydreaming of such a thing — a set of [[narrative ...es for quotidian existence: how does one get [[married]]? What are the new rules of courting? How does one celebrate a birthday? How does one get buried? It
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• Objet a as Inherent Limit to Capitalism
  ...egard]] to its very notion, non-absolute? There is no democracy without a hidden, presupposed elitism. Democracy is, by definition, not "global"; it HAS to ...'s "decentralized" capitalism). So the new society of the multitude which rules itself will be like today's cognitivist notion of the ego as a pandemonium
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• Some Politically Incorrect Reflections on Violence in France
  ...om]] of [[choice]], when the only choice is the one between playing by the rules and ([[self]]-)destructive violence, a violence which is almost exclusively ...i>passage à l'acte</i>. As such, these outbursts enable us to discern the hidden obverse of the much-praised American individualism and self-reliance: the [
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• Are We in a War
  ...roups of homo sacer — 'ethnic-[[religious]] conflicts' which violate the rules of [[universal]] [[human rights]], do not count as wars proper, and call fo ...ide [[money]] for the terrorists!' 'Terror' is thus elevated to become the hidden point of equivalence between all [[social evils]]. How, then, are we to bre
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• The Pope's Failures
  ...r profound self-realization.” Exemplary here is Donald Spoto’s <i>The Hidden [[Jesus]]</i>. In this [[New Age]] “[[liberal]]” reading of [[Christia ...he ruthless determination to [[work]] for the [[Church]], with all other [[rules]] [[being]] (potentially) suspended. As a rule, its members, whose task is
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• The Empty Wheelbarrow
  ...liberal]]-democratic tenets, they display a breathtaking talent to unearth hidden traps of domination. When faced with an attack on these tenets, they displa ...e future of the [[international community]] 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
  ...r (and Mankell): the outer ring of the detective formula is a rigid set of rules; but inside that artless guard, old art is dancing like children; for the d ...ictimized [[women]] (raping or beating [[them]]). The story brings out the hidden side of the Swedish Welfare-State miracle in decay, the brutal persistence
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• Passion in the Era of Decaffeinated Belief
  ...which we belong (recall the proverbial non-believing Jew who obeys kosher rules "out of respect for tradition"). "I do not really believe in it, it is just ...of your profound self-realization... Exemplary is here Donald Spoto's The Hidden Jesus, a New Age tainted "liberal" reading of Christianity, where we can re
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• The Iraqui MacGuffin
  ...spectors were searching for [[them]] in [[Iraq]], they were expected to be hidden in the most disparate and improbable places, from the (rather [[logical]] [ ...ng HERE as the result of the "[[war on terror]]." Instead of talking about hidden conspiratorial agendas, one should shift the focus onto what is going on, o
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• Homo Sacer as the Object of the University Discourse
  ...e 1968. Instead of the one [[symbolic]] [[Order]] with its set of a priori rules which [[guarantee]] social [[cohesion]], we get the [[matrix]] of the passa ...it into the [[subject]] ($). The "[[truth]]" of the university discourse, hidden beneath the bar, of course, is [[power]], i.e. the Master-[[Signifier]]: th
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• The One Measure of True Love is "You Can Insult the Other"
  ...you are in an open [[situation]]. Today we can no longer simply apply old rules. We are engaged in paradoxes, which offer no immediate way out. In this sen ...ersality. But I don't believe in some a priori universality of fundamental rules or universal notions. The only true universality we have access to is polit
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• Laugh Yourself to Death
  ...c [[about]] the owner of a small shop in the ghetto who pretends to have a hidden radio-receiver and regularly tells his terrified fellows uplifting news abo ...llies, he is led away by a German soldier to be shot, he winks at his son (hidden in a nearby closet) and starts to march a goose-step in a comically-exagger
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• The Thing from Inner Space
  ...(and herself) by her [[suicide]]? <i>Solaris</i> relies on science-fiction rules to enact in reality itself, to [[present]] as a material fact, the notion t ...an]] dialectics of Lord and Bondsman, [[Judith]] [[Butler]] focuses on the hidden contract between the two: "the imperative to the bondsman consists in the f
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• The Matrix, or, the Two Sides of Perversion
  ...elementary a belief into an "Other of the Other", into another Other who, hidden behind the Other of the explicit social texture, programs (what appears to ...nd is brought to extreme in quantum physics, where we are dealing with the rules/laws which function, although they cannot ever be retranslated into our exp
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• The Big Other Doesn't Exist
  ..., to count as such, must be grounded in some tautological authority BEYOND RULES, which says, "It is so because said it so!". ...iberating" notion that, today, individuals are compelled to (re)invent the rules of their co-existence without any guarantee of some meta-norm [[Kant]]'s [[
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• From "Passionate Attachments" to Dis-identification
  ...," relies for its performative power on the preestablished set of symbolic rules and/or norms. ...xposure and [[self-transparency]], i.e. the [[awareness]] that there is no hidden [[content]], makes the subject even more enigmatic. Sometimes, being totall
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• Are We in a War? Do We Have an Enemy?
  ...groups of homo sacer - 'ethnic-[[religious]] conflicts' which violate the rules of [[universal]] [[human rights]], do not count as wars proper, and call fo ...ide [[money]] for the terrorists!' 'Terror' is thus elevated to become the hidden point of equivalence between all [[social evils]]. How, then, are we to bre
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• Correspondence with Jacques Lacan (1963 - 1969)
  ...May comes, this myth of the sun keeping watch in the night itself, simply hidden by the other side of the earth, its other opaque with its very [[presence]] ...be able to say hello to daddy mommy or to get [[married]] according to the rules, since, after all, gotta make them happy and make children for France! In b
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• Mastery
  ...ntaining the [[narcissistic]] quest for domination, although this quest is hidden. ...onscious formations]] to [[pass]] into the [[preconscious]]. They are also rules of a type of mastery that is specific to the [[psychoanalytic]] process, on
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• Myth of Origins
  ...mpose a [[prohibition]] against [[incest]]. This [[symbolic]] pact and the rules that result from it constitute the beginnings of society. ...[[mother]] and daughter that he compared to Minoan-Mycenaean culture, long hidden by Athenian culture.
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• Stalinism
  ...space, but as a much stronger meta-semantic indication that the very basic rules of this semiotic space are changing, thus causing total perplexity, [[panic ...hin a terrifying criminal totalitarian universe - far from accepting these rules, it is the [[duty]] of every [[ethical]] subject to fight such a universe w
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• Symbol
  ...a person's individual [[associations]], which permit [[them]] to discover hidden meaning, as in the hysterical symptom or in dreams—or on collective conte
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• Myth of origins
  ...mpose a [[prohibition]] against [[incest]]. This [[symbolic]] pact and the rules that result from it constitute the beginnings of society. ...[[mother]] and daughter that he compared to Minoan-Mycenaean culture, long hidden by Athenian culture.
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• Secret
  A secret is a [[form]] of hidden [[knowledge]]. The [[word]] is etymologically related to excrement and [[se ...ed]] (the stork [[theory]]) . . . begin to suspect that there is something hidden that grownups keep for themselves and for this [[reason]] they surround the
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• Jacques Lacan:The Symbolic
  ...es a language insofar as it involves sign systems with their own intrinsic rules and grammar. Thus, we understand individual [[acts]] not in their own [[rig ...hange of women operated like a language - a [[formal]] system with its own rules and regulations which could not be infringed but at the same [[time]] remai
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• Introducing Lacan
  ...y of the length of the sessions is thus effective in ''generating the most hidden material''.) ...ood and think interminably. His life is mortified by [[rituals]], habits, rules. When it comes to action, he would rather that someone else act in his pla
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• Articles by Slavoj Zizek
  ...ww.rt.com/op-ed/410064-women-protest-sexuality-rules-dangers/ Will the new rules of sexuality be like an ashtray with a no-smoking sign?] * [[Hidden Prohibitions And The Pleasure Principle]]. Interview: Josefina Ayerza. ''Fl
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• Robespierre or the "Divine Violence" of Terror
  ...ess in which democracy and terror coincide, a revolution respecting social rules, subordinated to pre-existing norms, a revolution in which violence is depr ...s the domain of habit. To know the habits of a society is to know the meta-rules of how to apply its explicit norms: when to use them or not use them; when
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• Mao Zedong: the Marxist Lord of Misrule
  ...ermeneutics of suspicion," of identifying one's "true political attitudes" hidden beneath deceiving public proclamations, so that <i>Pravda</i> had to conced ...m," so that the enemies will actualize and fully express their reactionary hidden tendencies; then, once everyone's true positions are clearly articulated, e
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• Shostakovich in Casablanca
  ...e ruling ideological gaze, and another level which transgresses the public rules, but remains, as such, its inherent supplement? One can thus appreciate the ...ceptive front masking their true social role. In short, far from being the hidden truth of their public republicanism, their sincere Royalism was the fantasm
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• Leninism Today: Zionism and the Jewish Question
  ...e ancient [[regime]] in the [[revolution]], and, then, enslaved to the new rules, are [[forced]] to build monuments to their own revolutionary [[past]]? Thi ...of discourse, holocaust is effectively elevated into a unique [[agalma]], hidden treasure, objet a of the Jews – they are ready to give up everything exce
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• Madness and Habit in German Idealism
  ...ituated (in)to it, i.e., we have to learn to [[practice]] it, to apply its rules "blindly," mechanically, as a habit: only when a subject externalizes what ...at, in order to "fluently" [[speak]] a language, we have to [[master]] its rules mechanically, without thinking about it; much more radically, the co-[[depe
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• Articles/Slavoj Zizek/beckett-as-the-writer-of-abstraction.html
  ...er affinity: what if the second character is the full actualization of the hidden potentials of the first one? If we look back at Gandhi from this standpoint ''Catastrophe ''(1982), a late short play which may appear to violate his rules, is a "realist" play staging the rehearsal of a theatre play of the brutal
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