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• Between the two deaths
  The [[space]] of pure [[death drive]] without [[desire]], between [[symbolic]] ...is space with an unconditional, insistent [[demand]], like the demand from the [[ghost]] of [[Hamlet]]'s father insisting that he be revenged.
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• Jacques Lacan:Chronology
  He attended a prestigious Catholic school, the '''Collège Stanislas'''.<ref>An ambitious student, he excelled in [[religi ...[[Lacan]] begins his [[treatment|clincial training]] in [[psychiatry]] at the [[Sainte-Anne hospital]], where he would later teach.
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• Seminar XIII
  ...;"| ''[[Seminar XIII|L'objet de la psychanalyse]]''<BR><big>[[Seminar XIII|The Object of Psychoanalysis]]</big> ...of the subject-supposed-to-[[know]] (the subject of science) who restores the prestige of <i>mé[[connaissance]]</i> by [[thinking]] that he is uniting k
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• Seminar XVI
  ...minar XVI|D'un Autre à l'autre]]''<BR><big>[[Seminar XVI|From an Other to the Other]]</big> ...al]], [[Marx]] and the [[logic]] of the link between l, the unbroken line, the <i>[[trait]] unitaire</i> of <i>L'[[identification]]</i> and <i>a</i> as fo
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• Giorgio Agamben
  ...several American universities. He became famous for his investigations on the [[concept]]s of [[state of emergency|state of exception]] and ''[[Homo sace ...m]] in a specifically political direction. In 1974-1975 he was a fellow at the [[Warburg Institute]], where he wrote ''Stanzas'' (1979).
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• Capitalism
  Capitalism is a system that depends on the exploitation of underclass groups for its survival. (hooks, bell. Feminis ..., Heidi, "The Unhappy [[Marriage]] of [[Marxism]] and [[Feminism]]." from The Second Wave edited by Linda Nicholson, 1997, p. 99.)
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• Deconstruction
  ...oken and implicit — assumptions, [[ideas]], and frameworks that [[form]] the basis for [[thought]] and [[belief]]. It has various shades of meaning in ==The difficulty in defining deconstruction==
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• Politics
  ...erals]] are more or less [[satisfied]] with the ''status quo'' and against the radical [[act]].<ref>[[Contingency]] 127-8</ref> Like [[Hegel]]'s "[[Beautiful Soul]]", liberals wring their hands over the current [[state]] of affairs while in fact benefiting under it and passivel
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• Repeating Lenin (Essay)
  ...therein resides the lesson painfully learned through the [[experience]] of the XXth century totalitarianisms. ...de: today, the actual freedom of [[thought]] means the freedom to question the predominant liberal-democratic "post-ideological" consensus — or it means
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• Can Lenin Tell Us About Freedom Today
  ...hat these both Marxes have in common is the [[denial]] of politics proper; the reference to Lenin enables us to avoid these two pitfalls. ...einterprets Christ's crucifixion as his triumph; Lacan reads Freud through the [[mirror]]-[[stage]] [[Saussure]]), Lenin violently displaces Marx, tears h
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• The Matrix, or, Two Sides of Perversion
  The [[Matrix]], or two sides of [[Perversion]] ...udo-sophisticated intellectualist readings which [[project]] into the film the refined [[philosophical]] or [[psychoanalytic]] [[conceptual]] distinctions
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• Human Rights and Its Discontents
  Thank you for the kind invitation. ...y politicians to press such buttons. But some things are excluded. What is excluded from this participatory, multi-[[culturalist]], tolerant [[democracy]]?
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• Reflections of Media and Politic and Cinema
  GL: You have been to Japan. What's your opinion on the technological culture in this country? ..., no 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 Ja
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• Against the Double Blackmail
  [[File:Against the Double Blackmail.jpg|thumb]] ...j Žižek]] looks at one of the most desperate situations of our [[time]]: the current refugee crisis overwhelming [[Europe]]. In this short yet stirring
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• Ethnic Dance Macabre
  ...rights, [[social]] security and the like apply — and the [[others]], the excluded. ...integrated into the developed [[capitalist]] order — and who will remain excluded.
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• For a Leftist Appropriation of the European Legacy
  ...emselves, to effectuate the [[change]] in the [[global]] [[perception]] of the [[social]] [[space]], so that their claims would have a legitimate [[place] ...universality, and, simultaneously, as the operator which will bring about the establishment of a post-political rational society.3
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• A Leftist Plea for 'Eurocentrism'
  ...imperialism. However, is it possible to imagine a leftist appropriation of the European political legacy? ...m]] proclaimed themselves [[representative]] of the entire society against the party [[nomenklatura]].
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• The Spectre Is Still Roaming Around!
  ...at best, an exaggerated extrapolation of certain tendencies discernible in the 19th century? ...situation, is not the description in The Manifesto of the social impact of the [[bourgeoisie]] more actual than ever? -
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• The Leninist Freedom
  ...edom]]? Here is how [[Lenin]] stated his [[position]] in a polemic against the Menshevik and Socialist-Revolutionaries’ critique of Bolshevik [[power]] ...tacking us, then you will have only yourselves to blame if we treat you as the worst and most pernicious white guard elements."”
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• A Plea for Leninist Intolerance
  ...lic]] (say, a person whose choice is to be and act as a racist is a priori excluded). ...us then fearlessly evoke Lenin at his worst-say, his [[polemics]] against the Menshevik and Socialist-Revolutionaries' critique of Bolshevik [[power]] in
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• The Stellar Parallax: The Traps of Ontological Difference
  ==The Parallax View= = ===The Tickling Object===
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• A Glance into the Archives of Islam
  <b>The Antinomies of Tolerant [[Reason]]</b><BR> ...kes it a fatal obstacle to the [[true]] union of the East and the West – the point made exemplarily by Claude Levi-[[Strauss]]:
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• The Obscenity of Human Rights: Violence as Symptom
  ...obligation]], into something we ought to do while we fight the inertia of the [[capitalist]] [[present]]. ...re is no ultimate [[teleology|teleological]] [[guarantee]] of the outcome, the battle is open, undecided.
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• Over the Rainbow Coalition!
  ...we [[want]] to make it clear that we are not covert racists attacking only the [[fundamentalism]] of [[other]] (Muslim) cultures? ...]] as his prophet, nonetheless thinks that Jews have a divine [[right]] to the land of [[Israel]]?)
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• Opera
  ...ove]] of a miserable mortal [[woman]] to Walhall's <i>sproeden Wonnen</i>. The shattered Brunhilde comments on this [[refusal]]:</font></p> ...[[temporal]] [[existence]], of giving up eternity for the sake of love, is the highest [[ethical]] act of [[them]] all? Ernst Bloch was [[right]] to remar
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• Passion In The Era of Decaffeinated Belief
  ...if we want to make it clear that we are not covert racists attacking only the fundamentalism of <i>other</i> (Muslim) cultures? ...eligious passion is merely repressed: it remains there, smoldering beneath the surface and, finding no release, gets stronger and stronger.<br><br>
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• The Act and Its Vicissitudes
  ...... but I am more inclined to [[think]]...," "perhaps," "I rather disliked the [[feeling]]"): ...ng in my back—drip-drip and presently trickle-trickle. I rather disliked the feeling.<ref>C.S.Lewis, <i>Surprised by Joy</i>, [[London]]: Fontana Books,
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• The Iraqi MacGuffin
  ...says, 'But there are no leopards in the Scottish highlands.' 'Well,' says the second, 'then that's not a MacGuffin, is it?'"<br><br> ...he more dangerous... Now that none were found, we reached the last line of the story of MacGuffin: "'Well,' said President [[Bush]] in September 2003, 'th
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• Heiner Mueller Out of Joint
  ...advance to the eccentric [[artist]], and to see if it can be justified on The [[case]] against Mueller seems clear.<br><br> ...even a couple of decades ago, the special entrances which enable [[them]] the access to restaurants, theatres, etc., would have been unthinkable.<br><br>
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• Some Politically Incorrect Reflections on Violence in France
  ...not from rich neighborhoods, but were part of the hard-won acquisitions of the very strata from which protesters originate. ...r of these outbursts residing in the easily predictable racist REACTION of the French populist crowd to them.
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• Nobody Has to Be Vile
  ...s and less [[about]] [[them]] over the [[past]] couple of years. Where did the bright stars of Porto Alegre go? ...e the global capitalist cake (thrive as entrepreneurs) and eat it (endorse the anti-capitalist causes of [[social]] [[responsibility]], ecological concern
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• Knee-Deep
  <i>Free [[World]]: Why a Crisis of the West Reveals the Opportunity of Our [[Time]]</i> by [[Timothy Garton Ash]] ...[[whole]] under [[Stalinist]] [[dictatorship]]: the millions who overthrew the ''ancien régime'', and were then [[forced]] to build monuments to their ow
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• Attempts to Escape the Logic of Capitalism
  ...of politics sooner or later turns into its own comic caricature, adopting the very [[cynicism]] it originally opposed. * [[Attempts to Escape the Logic of Capitalism]]. ''[[London]] Review of Books''. Volume 21. [[Number]
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• Are We in a War
  ...] terrorist attacks, but effectively to rule out any peaceful solution for the foreseeable future? ...habitants of the favelas in [[Brazil]] or the African American ghettoes in the US.
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• Seminar VII
  ..."| ''[[Seminar VII|L'éthique de la psychanalyse]]''<BR><big>[[Seminar VII|The Ethics of Psychoanalysis]]</big> ...in at all. Both have rejected the [[right]] to live in [[order]] to enter the "in-between-two-deaths," - ''entre-deux-morts'' - that is immortality.
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• Dream
  The [[dream]] provides disguised [[satisfaction]] for [[wish]]es that are [[rep ...eam]] [[interpretation]] is the "royal road that leads to [[knowledge]] of the [[unconscious]] in [[psychic]] [[life]]."
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• Two Deaths
  ...[[case]], we continue to exist in the Symbolic even though we have died in the Real. ...er funeral that will secure his eternalization" (The [[Ticklish Subject]]: the [[Absent]] Centre of [[Political]] [[Ontology]]). That is, she endures a Sy
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• Antigone (Lacan)
  ...al]] [[situation]], Kant merely succeeds in separating pleasurability from the [[notion]] of [[good]]. ...a play which clearly expresses [[human]] [[being]]'s relation and debt to the [[death|dead]].
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• The Liberal Communists of Porto Davos
  ...ever, the Porto Alegre reunions seem to have lost their impetus. Where did the bright stars of Porto Alegre go? ...pitalist cake (thrive as profitable entrepreneurs) and eat it too (endorse the anti-capitalist causes of social [[responsibility]], ecological concerns, e
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• What Does Europe Want? (article)
  On May 1, eight new countries were welcomed into the European Union—but which “Europe” will they find there? In the months before Slovenia’s entry to the [[European Union]], whenever a foreign journalist asked me what new [[dimen
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• The Free World ... of Slums
  ...] [[recall]] the gentle irony of a novel of manners, giving a new twist to the old topic of “[[European trinity]].” ...s (Should they join the European Monetary Union?); the Germans worry about the sad inertia of their [[economy]].
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• What Is To Be Done (With Lenin)?
  ...remarks against the Menshevik and Socialist-Revolutionaries’ critique of the Bolshevik [[power]] in 1922? ...tacking us, then you will have only yourselves to blame if we treat you as the worst and most pernicious white guard elements.’”
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• The Subject Supposed to Loot and Rape
  ...it, either in the guise of the [[primitive]] [[Other]] or in the guise of the impersonal "one" ("one believes...").</p> ...they're [[being]] preyed upon. They are beating, they are raping them in the streets." In an interview just weeks later, he conceded that some of his m
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• Passion in the Era of Decaffeinated Belief
  ...if we want to make it clear that we are not covert racists attacking only the fundamentalism of other (Muslim) cultures? ...eligious passion is merely repressed: it remains there, smoldering beneath the surface and, finding no release, gets stronger and stronger.
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• The Iraqui MacGuffin
  ...says, 'But there are no leopards in the Scottish highlands.' 'Well,' says the second, 'then that's not a MacGuffin, is it?'" ...he more dangerous... Now that none were found, we reached the last line of the story of MacGuffin: "'Well,' said President [[Bush]] in September 2003, 'th
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• Can Lenin Tell Us about Freedom Today
  ...hat these both Marxes have in common is the [[denial]] of politics proper; the reference to Lenin enables us to avoid these two pitfalls. ...einterprets Christ's crucifixion as his triumph; Lacan reads Freud through the [[mirror]]-[[stage]] [[Saussure]]), Lenin violently displaces Marx, tears h
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• Why We All Love to Hate Heider
  ...commentators naturally hailed this demonstrative reaction as evidence that the anti-fascist consensus of post-war European democracy holds firm. But are t ...ocial democracy purged of its minimal subversive sting, extinguishing even the faintest memory of anti-capitalism and class struggle.<br><br>
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• The Matrix, or, the Two Sides of Perversion
  ...pseudo-sophisticated intellectualist readings which project into the film the refined philosophical or psychoanalytic conceptual distinctions.(1)<br> ...is false? What if the virtual character of the symbolic order "as such" is the very condition of historicity?<br><br>
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• Reflections of Media, Politics and Cinema
  Geert Lovink: You have been to Japan. What's your opinion on the technological [[culture]] in this country? ...tern [[metaphysics]] of [[presence]]. It's a no less phantasmic Japan then the first one. We [[know]] that Eisenschtein for his montage of attractions use
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• The Spectre Is Still Roaming Around
  ...at best, an exaggerated extrapolation of certain tendencies discernible in the 19th century? ...situation, is not the description in The Manifesto of the social impact of the [[bourgeoisie]] more actual than ever? -
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