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• On Divine Self-Limitation and Revolutionary Love
  ...ul?   Can or should those lessons be separated out, as form from content, from their particularity as aspects of the history of Christianity, itself ...ivities, and so on, nonetheless I try to ground it in a specific Christian content, which again for me focuses precisely on Christ's death, (his) death and re
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• Liberation Hurts
  ...didn't tell me to pass the salt." There's a certain paradoxical level of [[thought]], you cannot but call it sincere lying. If I ask you, "how are you?" liter ..., now, I'm not saying what Elizabeth Wright, who edited a reader about me, thought. I love her, an [[English]] old lady. I had tea with her once, and she said
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• The Iraqui MacGuffin
  ...parent]] content to the [[word]] 'terrorism' which is itself devoid of all content (in this [[instance]], political)."7 ...scribed into his thought - but with a twist: instead of problematizing his thought, Nolte justifies his political choice as a viable option in the situation o
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• The Thing from Inner Space
  ...at which there is no [[need]] for [[speech]], for [[signs]], since, in it, thought directly intervenes in the Real? This gigantic Brain, this Other-Thing, inv ...ed), or, even more interestingly, they rely on a contrast between form and content, like the long shot of Eugenia's hysterical outburst against the hero, a mi
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• The Matrix, or, the Two Sides of Perversion
  ...us desire which inscribes itself through the very distortion of the latent thought into the explicit texture.)<br> ...fter the art practice isolates the frame/place as such, emptied of all its content, can one indulge in the ready-made procedure. Before Malevitch, a urinal wo
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• From Proto-Reality to the Act
  It is here that we have to look for the central ambiguity of Schelling's thought: apropos of subject of [[thought]] and the Freudian [[subject of the unconscious]], which is perceived as
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• Psychoanalysis and Post-Marxism
  ...dically rejecting the deconstructionist doxa as a new [[form]] of pseudo-[[thought]], as a contemporary version of sophism. Since Badiou is not yet well-known ...of being considered [[objects]] of thought. The problem for philosophical thought resides precisely in how the [[universality]] of "woman" emerges from this
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• The Big Other Doesn't Exist
  ...ic efficiency? We all know the old, worn-out [[joke]] about a madman who [[thought]] he was a grain of corn; after being finally cured and sent home, he immed ...ouble]], the One of pure [[theory]]. But, on a closer look, the positive [[content]] of this "secret teaching" reveals itself to be pop-wisdom commonplaces a
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• Reflections of Media, Politics and Cinema
  ...they even want our [[dreams]]. Behind this there's the [[notion]] of the [[thought]] [[control]]. It's the old [[Marxist]] notion of buying the [[whole]] [[ch ...movements, like [[feminist]] and ecological groups. At that time everybody thought that we would be vanishing mediators. We made some solidly corrupted, but g
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• Civil Society, Fanaticism, and Digital Reality
  everybody [[thought]] that we would be vanishing mediators. We made some slyly it you discover Leni Riefenstahl. I am not interested in direct [[content]]
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• Correspondence with Jacques Lacan (1963 - 1969)
  Thank you from the bottom of my heart. Your [[word]], your [[thought]], and your sympathy touch me deeply. ...and handy)—at the time, then, when I found myself able to give to Marx's thought (I am speaking emphatically of his "[[philosophy]],'' and not of his work:
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• Works of Slavoj Zizek
  ...hesis is that the "nursery tale"of the cogito which has dominated modern [[thought]] (in its guise as the self-[[transparent]] [[thinking]] subject) is, in fa ...]] in an age which has seen the re-emergence of obscurantist [[religious]] thought. However, part of the broad remit of this compact book is an attempt to res
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• I am a fighting atheist
  ...s in the interview here, [[philosophy]] helps us, not by "purifying" our [[thought]], but by making it more [[complex]].</p> ...lists worldwide. Unlike the vast majority of commentators, Zizek was not [[content]] to express disbelief and outrage. His [[words]] offered an antidote to th
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• Slavoj Zizek: An Introduction
  ...'conditions of impossibility' operate at the substantive level — of the content of his claims — and at a stylistic level, so that the manner in which he ...n contradiction does make him a good deal more radical than someone who is content with merely identifying and describing structures in literary and cultural
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• Slavoj Žižek: What is a Master-Signifier
  ...et rid of the 'remnants of the liberal-democratic stance' of his earlier [[thought]], which 'oscillates between Marxism proper and praise of 'pure democracy' ...ek says of Maurras' masterstroke: 'It looked at things in a way no one had thought or dared to look' (TK, 28) - and, we might even say, what Maurras added, li
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• Slavoj Zizek: Live Theory
  ...world? The penis, because it is the only one that can be raised by a mere thought' (TS, 382-3)? Who else, in a parody of the anthropologist Claude Lévi-Stra ...other' - and the second treating the same concept in terms of its inherent content - 'in itself' (E!, xi). Thus we have a discussion of Lacan's notion of the
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• Slavoj Žižek's Third Way
  ...wants to see himself as an "engaged" [[intellectual]], but on the level of content he is struck by a kind of [[paralysis]], unable to [[suggest]] any meaningf ...nning it stands in for its own opposite. To the very extent that it can be thought—this is Hegel's point about immersing abstract universality in the medium
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• Phenomenology
  ...two spheres before examining its [[relationship]] to [[psychoanalytic]] [[thought]]. ...pupils) was, at heart, Kantian and held that the [[contents]] of conscious thought are shaped by rule-governed judgments that engage the subject with [[object
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• A Plea for a Return to Différance (with a Minor Pro Domo Sua)
  In the last two decades of his [[thought]], Derrida emphasized that, the more radical a deconstruction is, the more ...that, <i>mutatis mutandis</i>, Derrida threw away all positive ontological content of messianism, retaining nothing but the pure form of the messianic promise
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• The Last Hegelian: An Interview with Slavoj Zizek
  ...didn't tell me to pass the salt." There's a certain paradoxical level of [[thought]], you cannot but call it sincere lying. If I ask you, "how are you?" liter ...hat there was from the very beginnings of Liberalism the tension between [[content]] and form. The properly political [[dialectic]] is that the form, even if
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