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  ...point de capiton - which signifier ("communism", "fascism", "capitalism", "market economy" and so on) will be entitled to quilt the ideological field ("freed ...is materialized in an independent press, democratic elections and the free market.
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• Badiou: Notes From an Ongoing Debate
  ...th its own “principal contradiction” (today, it is the opposition of [[market]]-[[freedom]]-democracy and fundamentalist-terrorist-[[totalitarianism]] - ...say today – Mao Ze Dong’s [[fear]] that even a minimal compromise with market [[economy]] will open up the path that ends in total surrender to capitalis
  46 KB (7,077 words) - 19:04, 27 May 2019
• Articles by Slavoj Zizek
  * [https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/uk-weather-heatwave-global-warming-climate-change-philosopher-a8475721.html Why being a philosopher in ...t-pipe-bombs-brett-kavanaugh-global-left-altright-a8606611.html To end our global political crisis, the left needs to learn from Donald Trump]
  58 KB (7,265 words) - 00:09, 22 July 2019
• Robespierre or the "Divine Violence" of Terror
  ...gine something more foreign to our universe of the freedom of opinions, of market competition, of nomadic pluralist interaction, etc., than Robespierre's pol ...e presupposes formally/legally equal subjects who meet and interact on the market; the crucial moment of Marx's critique of "bourgeois" socialists is that ca
  87 KB (14,415 words) - 18:46, 14 June 2007
• Mao Zedong: the Marxist Lord of Misrule
  ...t Americans to break up the conspiracy. THIS is the hard kernel of today's global capitalist universe, its true Master-Signifier: democracy. <ref>And are the ...m itself: capitalism can fully thrive not in the unencumbered reign of the market, but only when an obstacle (the minimal Welfare State interventions, up to
  81 KB (13,226 words) - 20:04, 14 June 2007
• Censorship Today: Violence, or Ecology as a New Opium for the Masses
  ...y is: do we endorse this "naturalization" of capitalism, or does today's [[global]] capitalism contain strong enough [[antagonisms]] which will prevent its i ...gle socio-political [[agent]] effectively can alter and even interrupt the global historical [[process]], so that, ironically, it is only today that we can s
  47 KB (7,661 words) - 20:02, 27 May 2019
• On Alain Badiou and Logiques des mondes
  ...y - because markets get saturated. Produce variety and you produce a niche market. The oddest of affective tendencies are okay - as long as they pay. Capital ..." conclusion that, in a "worldless" universe (which is today's universe of global capitalism), the aim of emancipatory politics should be the precise opposit
  68 KB (10,987 words) - 16:54, 12 January 2008
• Leninism Today: Zionism and the Jewish Question
  ...– why? Or, [[another]] example: in today's [[Germany]], there are on the market many CD's with old DDR revolutionary and party songs, from "[[Stalin]], Fre ...of the Leftist Communist opposition which pursued the oxymoron of the anti-market "radical" [[economic]] politics combined with the calls for direct and true
  34 KB (5,320 words) - 00:39, 26 May 2019
• Cogito, Madness and Religion: Derrida, Foucault and then Lacan
  ...d, Kant does not fail to mention the Mandevillean [[rationality]] of the [[market]] in which each individual's pursuit of his/her egotistic interests is what ...s of social life and thus guarantees its consistency: beneath the chaos of market, the degradation of morals, etc., there is the purposeful strategy of the [
  42 KB (6,735 words) - 20:31, 27 May 2019
• Radical Evil as a Freudian Category
  ...cy, guarantee of [[private property]], the inclusion into the [[global]] [[market]] [[economy]], etc.) that should open up the perspective of freedom to the
  44 KB (7,093 words) - 10:21, 1 June 2019
• The Liberal Utopia II: The Market Mechanism for the Race of Devils
  * [[The Liberal Utopia II: The Market Mechanism for the Race of Devils]]. 8 January 2008. ''[http://www.lacan.co ...at today "it is more important than ever to hold this utopian place of the global alternative open"(142) - as if I did not repeatedly elaborate different mea
  28 KB (4,625 words) - 19:31, 12 January 2008
• Against The Double Blackmail (article)
  ...ationale. The second story concerns the other side of the much-praised new global ethical politics in which one is allowed to violate the state sovereignty o ...]] the heritage of old Socialist mismanagement, is a direct result of this global [[capitalist]] [[logic]] embodied in MAI.
  53 KB (8,634 words) - 17:40, 27 May 2019
• Books/Jodi Dean/Empires New Clothes
  '''Market 3.''' On Divine Markets and the Problem of Justice: Empire as Theodicy, ''B '''Global 7.''' Africa’s Ambiguous Relation to Empire and Empire, ''Kevin C.Dunn''
  3 KB (438 words) - 00:15, 15 July 2019
• Videos/Documentary/Marx Reloaded
  ...ess, should we accept the crisis as an unfortunate side-effect of the free market? Or is there another explanation as to why it happened and its likely effec
  2 KB (242 words) - 00:43, 20 July 2019
• Articles/Alain Badiou/Seven Variations On The Century
  ...world, the production of biographies and autobiographies is saturating the market. Nothing is considered as worthy of interest except what the Chinese, who a ...Formal liberty means this: a liberty that is neither articulated through a global, egalitarian project, nor practised subjectively as fraternity.
  30 KB (4,869 words) - 02:55, 20 July 2019
• Articles/Slavoj Zizek/cogito-in-the-history-of-madness.html
  ...methodological stance, and the positivization of this suspicion in another global all-explanatory para-theory. ...xpected, Kant does not fail to mention the Mandevillean rationality of the market in which each individual's pursuit of his or her egotistic interests is wha
  85 KB (14,133 words) - 02:55, 20 July 2019
• Articles/Slavoj Zizek/coke-as-objet-petit-a.html
  ...oses its shock value and is gully integrated into the established artistic market.[4] ...ing through the open window, is experienced as an unbalanced fragment of a global scene, calling for a supplement, referring to an invisible off-space, like
  34 KB (5,706 words) - 02:55, 20 July 2019
• Articles/Slavoj Zizek/marx-as-a-reader-of-hegel-hegel-as-a-reader-of-marx.html
  ...cular and the universal in the guise of the famous "invisible hand" of the market, on account of which, by pursuing his private interests at the expense of o ...basis of a ''true'' reconciliation between the universal and the singular. Market competition really brings people together, while organic order divides them
  73 KB (11,585 words) - 02:55, 20 July 2019
• Articles/Slavoj Zizek/radical-evil-as-a-freudian-category.html
  ...al democracy, guarantee of private property, the inclusion into the global market economy, etc.) that should open up the perspective of freedom to the Iraqi
  43 KB (6,952 words) - 02:55, 20 July 2019
• Articles/Slavoj Zizek/the-superego-and-the-act.html
  ...t and more and more its central component. What this short circuit between market and culture entails is the disappearance of the old modernist avant-garde l ...ve you a nice explanation and then they do it. So the other aspect of this global reflexivity is an emergence of a new stupid immediacy which no reflection c
  51 KB (8,853 words) - 02:55, 20 July 2019

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