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• Jouissance
  ...be directly targeted or apprehended (despite the [[ambition]] of the “[[politics]] of enjoyment” and its various incarnations). At the same time, it canno
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• Lenin (revolutionary)
  ...the second stroke in December of the same year, he resigned from active [[politics]]. In March 1923, he suffered his third stroke and was left bedridden for t *[http://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1920/lwc/index.htm Left-Wing Communism: An Infantile Disorder]
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• Alain Badiou
  ...adiou]] ([[born]] 1937, Rabat, Morocco) is a prominent [[France|French]] [[left-wing]] [[philosopher]] formerly [[chair]] of [[Philosophy]] at the [[École Norm ...Political Ontology|The Ticklish Subject]]'', Žižek upholds Badiou’s [[politics]] of Truth and his “pathbreaking [[reading]] of St Paul” (''TS'': 3), w
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• Jacques Lacan:Chronology
  ...d to leave the École Normale Supérieure. In fact, direct engagement in [[politics]] was always a problematic area in his personal life; he could be described
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• The Indivisible Remainder: An Essay on Schelling and Related Matters
  Although the book is packed with examples from politics and popular culture — the unmistakable token of Zizek’s style — from
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• The Art of the Ridiculous Sublime
  ...ss]] of examining topics as diverse-and as closely linked-as [[ethics]], [[politics]], and [[cyberspace]].
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• Contingency, Hegemony, Universality
  ...ge in a dialogue on central questions of contemporary [[philosophy]] and [[politics]]. Their essays, organized as [[separate]] contributions that respond to on
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• Seminar XX
  ...1972 and June 26, 1975. It takes [[place]] at a turning point in French [[politics]] after the events of May 68, and in the teaching of [[Jacques lacan|Jacque
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• Sigmund Freud
  ...ates. The myth lends itself also in Žižek to a fertile theorization of [[politics]], one that seeks to avoid the disavowals of ''[[Group Psychology and the A
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• Giorgio Agamben
  ...te of exception]] as the dominant paradigm for governing in contemporary [[politics]]. He warns against a "generalization of the [[state]] of exception" throug ...can be achieved through politics. Bare life, in this ancient conception of politics, is that which must be transformed, via the State, into the "[[good]] life"
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• Class/Antagonism
  ...g the impossibility of [[sexual]] relationship into the context of class [[politics]]: “There is no class relationship” (''SO'': 126; LC: 295). He does not ...he issue of class, but rather his provocation for rethinking Marxist class politics since it puts into question the myriad [[utopian]] preoccupations that have
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• Judith Butler
  ...wer always incomplete and subject to re-inscription. Butler’s feminist [[politics]] engage in what Laclau stresses as the “hegemonic struggle” over the s
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• Deconstruction
  ...[[place]] in deconstruction complicates matters considerably, as do the [[politics]] of [[Paul]] de Man in early [[adulthood]]. Heidegger assumed the rectorsh ...oncerned with complicating the [[relationship]] between deconstruction and politics. Despite these denials Derrida made numerous statements supporting the spir
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• Frantz Fanon
  ...nterdisciplinary, broadening out from his psychiatric basis to encompass [[politics]], [[sociology]], [[anthropology]], [[linguistics]] and literature. His par
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• Søren Kierkegaard
  Although Kierkegaard wrote a few articles on [[politics]], [[women]], and entertainment in his youth and university days, many scho
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• Georg Lukács
  ==Life and politics== ...ing to debates concerning [[Marxism]] and its relation to [[sociology]], [[politics]] and [[philosophy]], and for reconstructing [[Marx's theory of alienation]
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• Jacques Lacan:Sexual Difference
  ...pted within feminism (see Kate Millet's classic feminist [[text]] Sexual [[Politics]] (1977 [1969]) for a clear [[statement]] of these criticisms), and consequ
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• Lacanian Psychoanalysis
  students and [[workers]] that a liberated [[politics]] could only emerge from S. Turkle, Psychoanalytic Politics: Jacques Lacan and Freud’s French
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• The One Measure of True Love Is: You Can Insult the Other
  ...y former leftists, this multiculturalism is a kind of ersatz working-class politics. We don't even know whether the working class still exists, so let's talk a ...course, is what is missing today, because politics today is increasingly a politics of merely negotiating compromises between different positions. <br class="N
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• Violence
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• War
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• Václav Havel
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• Repeating Lenin (Essay)
  ...an economically inefficient dictatorship? So, in the contemporary academic politics, the idea to deal with Lenin is accompanied by two qualifications: yes, why ...ggle between the liberal and [[conservative]] pole of today's [[official]] politics — however, one can only afford to be indifferent if the liberal option is
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• Welcome to the Desert of the Real (Essay)
  We don't yet know what consequences in [[economy]], ideology, [[politics]], war, this event will have, but one thing is sure: the US, which, till no
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• Can Lenin Tell Us About Freedom Today
  ...on Wall Street. What these both Marxes have in common is the [[denial]] of politics proper; the reference to Lenin enables us to avoid these two pitfalls. As such, Lenin's politics is the [[true]] counterpoint not only to the [[Third Way]] pragmatic opport
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• Human Rights and Its Discontents
  ...and so on and so on, how does the reference to human rights function in [[politics]]? Here I will finally enter what probably you expect from me, the [[NATO]] ...tastrophe it wanted to prevent. That's the usual argument of a lot of my [[left-wing]] friends: What was the result? Only KLA, that is to say Albanians, are now
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• Reflections of Media and Politic and Cinema
  ...power. Both bureaucrats and dissidents had some sort of relationship with politics. Even until now, this is partly the case. In Western Europe this phenomena GL: But you are involved in politics yourself, up until this moment. There are a lot of controversies in Ljublja
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• Ethnic Dance Macabre
  ...erman]] Fourth [[Reich]] perturbing the delicate [[balance]] of European [[politics]]. ...of the West — the [[uncanny]] [[antagonism]] between its "[[official]]" politics (preventing ethnic cleansing) and its true desire (to allow the Serbs to fi
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• For a Leftist Appropriation of the European Legacy
  [[Politics]] and its repressions ...e, of course, emphasizes how the line of [[separation]] between police and politics proper is always blurred and contested; say, in the [[Marxist]] [[tradition
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• Psychoanalysis in Post-Marxism: The Case of Alain Badiou
  ...of "infinite complexity." Advocates of "anti-essentialist" [[identity]] [[politics]], for example, tend to stress that there is no "[[woman]] in general," onl ...g for, against this postmodern doxa, is precisely the resuscitation of the politics of ([[universal]]) Truth in today's conditions of global contingency. He wo
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• A Leftist Plea for 'Eurocentrism'
  ...es: Politique st Philosophie avant et aprés [[Marx]] (Paris, 1997).</ref> Politics proper thus always involves a kind of short circuit between the [[universal ...ishment of a postpolitical, rational society.<ref>Sometimes the shift from politics proper to policing can be simply a matter of a [[change]] from the definite
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• When the Party Commits Suicide
  ...t colonialism is an empty abstraction which, translated into [[practical]] politics, can only result in condoning the "civilizing" role of colonialism and thus <p>"This not only threatened to open elite politics to public scrutiny but also risked discrediting the entire Bolshevik regime
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• Welcome to the Desert of the Real-3
  ...his pact between Fulani, the far-[[left]] espouser of [[Marxist]]-Leninist politics, and Buchanan, a Reaganite cold warrior and the leading [[Right]]-wing popu
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• Have Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri Rewritten the Communist Manifesto For the Twenty-First Century
  ...ated in an economically inefficient dictatorship? In contemporary academic politics, the [[idea]] of dealing with Lenin is accompanied by two qualifications: y Lenin's stance against [[economism]] as well as against pure politics is crucial today, apropos of the [[split]] attitude toward economy in (what
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• Seize the Day: Lenin's Legacy
  ...(1996), "the [[vocabulary]] and grammar of the Western [[tradition]] of [[politics]] was abruptly dispensed with." ...to socialism". All that Soviet power could do was to combine the moderate politics of "state capitalism" with the cultural education of the peasant masses. Fa
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• A Plea for Leninist Intolerance
  ...in an economically inefficient dictatorship? So, in contemporary academic politics, a proposal to deal with Lenin is twice qualified: Yes, why not, we live in ...gle between the liberal and [[conservative]] poles of today's [[official]] politics. However, one can only afford to be indifferent if the liberal option is in
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• The Iraq War: Where is The True Danger
  ...is here the [[case]] of [[Poland]]: the most ardent supporter of the US [[politics]] in Poland is the ex-Communist president Kwasniewski (who is even mentione ...e US AND the agent of the TV-idiotizing of the [[public]] opinion, turning politics into a [[media]] show and running a large advertisement and media company.
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• The Stellar Parallax: The Traps of Ontological Difference
  ...n religion as Protestantism, in ethics as the subject's moral autonomy, in politics as democratic equality, etc. What such a view misses is what one is tempted ...an, all too human." One should not be afraid to apply this insight also to politics: it is all too simple to dismiss Nazis as inhuman and bestial - what if the
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• A Glance into the Archives of Islam
  ...n the parallel of God with father. More importantly even, this inscribes [[politics]] into the very heart of Islam, since the “genealogical desert” renders
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• The Obscenity of Human Rights: Violence as Symptom
  ...[[global market economy]], etc.). The purely humanitarian anti-political politics of merely preventing suffering thus effectively amounts to the implicit [[p ...s|meta-political]]" Human Rights, we lose politics itself, i.e., we reduce politics to a "post-political" play of negotiation of particular interests. - What,
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• Move the Underground!
  ...is the most dark and daring of conspiracies"? And is the [[present]] US [[politics]], in its inherent [[structure]], not a kind of [[political]] equivalent to
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• Over the Rainbow Coalition!
  ...also the dominant ideological topic of the "enlightened" liberals whose [[politics]] is focused on the fight against sexism, [[racism]], and fundamentalism, a ...n]], abolished budget deficit. Even in the touchy sphere of socio-economic politics, Democrats (the same as with Blair in the UK) as a rule accomplish the neo-
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• Too Much Democracy?
  ...t, when the pro-war leaders are confronted with the brutal fact that their politics is out-of-tune with the majority of their population, they take recourse to
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• Smashing the Neighbor's Face
  ...]] reducible to the symmetric domain of equality and distributive justice, politics I the very "[[impossible]]" link between this domain and that of (theologic
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• Reloaded Revolutions
  ...h films is that, in today's late capitalism, politics is more and more the politics of <i>jouissance</i>, concerned with ways of soliciting or controlling and ...site and politics a theater of shadows, the main fight is to be fought in politics and ideology. Take the disintegration of the Communist power in the last ye
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• The Iraqi MacGuffin
  ...ex-Congressman Fred Thompson said, in [[defense]] of President Bush's Iraq politics: "When anti-war protesters say 'But what did Iraq effectively DO to the US? ...lessly pursuing its interests. It is as the guideline of the [[recent]] US politics is a weird [[reversal]] of the well-known motto of the ecologists: act glob
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• Heiner Mueller Out of Joint
  ...drive to productivity, the distrust of democracy, the theatralization of [[politics]], the inevitability of [[violence]] — three features which directly cont ...evoke the logic of councils-democracy?). Secondly, the [[awareness]] that politics is a complex game in which a certain level of institutional alienation is i
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• Objet a as Inherent Limit to Capitalism
  ...> such a refreshing reading (clearly the definitive exercises in Deleuzian politics) is that we are dealing with books which refer to and function as the momen ...o [[master]] the regulation of social [[space]], since social relations ([[politics]]) IS the stuff of their [[work]]: economic production directly becomes [[p
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• Some Politically Incorrect Reflections on Violence in France
  ...]] which fits global capitalism: in our age of »post-[[politics]],« when politics proper is progressively replaced by expert social administration, the only ...uld reply like Picasso: "No, YOU did this! This is the true result of YOUR politics!"<br><br>
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• The Antinomies of Tolerant Reason: A Blood-Dimmed Tide is Loosed
  ...iou proposes, <i>abstract</i> from the holocaust when we judge the Israeli politics towards Palestinians? Not because one can compare the two, but precisely be ...upied zones, allowing the Israelis to dismiss all criticism of the Israeli politics as secretly motivated by the holocaust-denial; nor does he resort to the ri
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