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• Why Does a Letter Always Arrive at Its Destination?
  ...we look at the [[process]] backwards, from its [[contingent]] result, the fact that events took precisely this turn could not but appear as [[uncanny]], c
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• For a Leftist Appropriation of the European Legacy
  ...f the non-political 'corporate' functioning of the Japanese society is the fact that, although voices like that of Sue Sum are heard on their behalf, the b ...ersal]] of the sublime into the ridiculous was, of course, grounded in the fact that there was a double misunderstanding at work in the public (self)percep
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• The Cyberspace Real
  ...which protects us from confronting the [[trauma]] of our finitude, of the fact that there our story has to end at some point — there is no ultimate irre ...erson, etc. Against this "multiple reality" talk, one should insist on the fact that the fantasmatic support of reality is in itself necessarily multiple a
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• From Joyce-the-Symptom to the Symptom of Power
  ...rd towards its [[interpretation]]. The "modernism" of Joyce resides in the fact that his works, at least [[Ulysses]] and Finnegans Wake, are not simply [[e ...very [[notion]] of marriage does not involve precisely the "pathological" fact of liking a [[particular]] person for no particular [[rational]] [[reason]]
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• Desire:Drive = Truth:Knowledge
  The fact that this phase "never had a real existence," of course, indexes the status ...ction. While this is true, this "truth" is propagated by me to conceal the fact that the accident realized my desire. On the contrary, the [[hysteric]] tel
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• Psychoanalysis in Post-Marxism: The Case of Alain Badiou
  ...nch Revolution. In this precise sense, an Event emerges ex nihilo. But the fact that it cannot be accounted for in the terms of the situation does not mean ...ltural products. The answer to the obvious counterargument (that this very fact proves we are dealing with a distorted view, not with the true state of thi
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• The Lesbian Session
  ...y not its "prime movers." In [[other]] words, what Rand "represses" is the fact that the rule of the crowd is the inherent outcome of the [[dynamic]] of ca
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• The Spectre Is Still Roaming Around!
  The fact of this "anonymous" violence also allows us to make a more general point ab
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• When the Party Commits Suicide
  ...o the more rigorously we OBEY the Law, the more we bear [[witness]] to the fact that, deep in ourselves, we fell the pressure of the desire to indulge in s ...r in the modern condition renders this condition even more horrifying: the fact is that, in spite of all the horrors of [[gulag]] and [[holocaust]], from [
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• The Leninist Freedom
  ...[[moment]] when the only legitimizing [[reason]] for Socialism was a mere fact that it [[exists]] . . . “ ...icly legitimizes its reign with the reference to some Higher Good, and the fact that, ultimately, “you have to obey because I say so” reverberates only
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• Il n'y a pas de rapport religieux
  ...] fact of [[Christ]]'s Crucifixion stands for the silent admission of this fact. In [[order]] fully to appreciate the uniqueness of the [[figure]] of Chris
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• Seize the Day: Lenin's Legacy
  ...ide [[lacks]] the [[material]] basis for communism, it will be harmful, in fact, I should say, fatal, for communism to do so." His recurrent motif is: "The ...eois regime (the universal provision of education and so on). However, the fact that the agent of [[development]] is proletarian revolutionary power change
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• A Plea for Leninist Intolerance
  ...deserved to be banned it was this one, and matters are not changed by the fact that its actual ban was for wrong and hateful reasons."<ref>Richard Taruski ...into the [[sciences]] is precluded. However… this "however" concerns the fact that, in Materialism and Empiricocriticism, there is no place for dialectic
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• Gerhard Schroeder's Minority Report and Its Consequences
  ...t the American military [[intervention]] in Irak, was a displeasure at the fact that Schroeder did what a normal politician in a functioning [[democracy]] ...chose]] the second option… What makes the strategy efficient is the very fact that we cannot ever be sure that it will [[work]] perfectly: what if a [[si
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• The Iraq War: Where is The True Danger
  ...ome consumerist goods… However, it is all too easy to [[slip]] from this fact to the [[notion]] that "under their skin, Iraqis are also like us, and real ...ts and Rightist nationalists, is thus ultimately the refusal to accept the fact that France itself is losing its hegemonic [[role]] in Europe. The leveling
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• From 'Passionate Attachments' to Dis-Identification
  ...does this affect the subversive edge of the femme fatale figure? Does the fact that her triumph is real not undermine her much stronger spectral/fantasmat ...e modern notion of [[finitude]]. What is so difficult to accept is not the fact that the true act - in which noumenal and phenomenal dimensions coincide -
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• You May
  ...he [[goal]] of profound self-realisation. What [[disappears]] is not "hard fact" but [[the Real]] of a traumatic [[encounter]] whose organising role in the ...nd my [[environment]] - why oppose cloning? Is it possible that they do in fact believe in the ability of genetics to reach the very core of our personalit
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• The Stellar Parallax: The Traps of Ontological Difference
  ...se, is that the observed difference is not simply "subjective," due to the fact that the same object which exists "out there" is seen from two different st ...elf, about a certain gap that is <i>stricto sensu</i> a fundamental social fact. The "tickling object" is here the absent Cause, the unfathomable X that un
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• Hegel - Chesterton: German Idealism and Christianity
  ...cally conditioned limitation: "We must be [[content]] with what we can, in fact, comprehend at [[present]]. There is plenty that cannot be comprehended ye ...tices which are indifferent to this [[distinction]]. It is an interesting fact of historical dialectic that Buddhism which, originally, dispensed with all
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• A Glance into the Archives of Islam
  ...e for a Holy Family in Islam.</i> This is why Islam emphasizes so much the fact that Muhammed himself was an orphan; this is why, in Islam, God intervenes ...hough Islam recognizes the Bible as a sacred [[text]], it has to deny this fact: in Islam, [[Jesus]] did not really die on the Cross: the Jews “said (in
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