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• Nobody Has to Be Vile
  ...only the old [[right]], with its ridiculous [[belief]] in [[authority]], [[order]] and parochial patriotism, but also the old [[left]], with its war against ...reunited for mutual benefit. As Friedman puts it, nobody has to be vile in order to do business these days; collaboration with employees, dialogue with cust
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• Knee-Deep
  ...reaty with the US obliging it not to deliver to the International Criminal Court any US [[citizen]] suspected of war crimes or other crimes against humanity ...e their last recourse, then somebody else has to inherit their rights in [[order]] to enact them in their place. This is what is called the 'right to humani
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• Attempts to Escape the Logic of Capitalism
  ...atagem in order to gain more power, in exactly the same way that today, in order for one's [[voice]] to gain authority, one has to legitimise oneself as bei
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• Are We in a War
  ...ing sides, but as a mediating [[agent]] of peace and [[Global Order|global order]], crushing rebellion and, simultaneously, providing humanitarian aid to th ...sed by the Taliban; as Tony Blair said, we may have to bomb the Taliban in order to secure food transportation and distribution. Perhaps the ultimate [[imag
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• The Liberal Communists of Porto Davos
  ...g, both the old Right—with its ridiculous [[belief]] in [[authority]], [[order]] and parochial patriotism—and the old Left—with its big [[Struggle]] a ...changed since then, they didn’t resign to reality, but rather changed in order to really [[change]] the world, to really revolutionize our lives. Didn’t
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• What Does Europe Want? (article)
  ...the same as with Ireland: not only did [[James]] [[Joyce]] leave home in [[order]] to write [[Ulysses]], his masterpiece [[about]] Dublin; Yeats himself, th ...tion sustains pop culture, stupid TV amusement and mindless consumption in order to turn Slovenes into an easily manipulated crowd, incapable of serious [[r
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• The Liberal Waterloo
  ...agenda with new gusto, nominating [[conservative]] judges to the [[Supreme Court]], invading the next country after [[Iraq]], and pushing [[liberalism]] in ...lions of [[people]] — the saved souls whom [[God]] calls to himself in [[order]] to spare [[them]] the horrors of [[Armageddon]]. The [[Anti-Christ]] the
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• Henning Mankell, the Artist of the Parallax View
  ...rist Russia in St. Petersburg, Julies Ceasar's Rome, Alexander the Great's court... There is, of course, in the history of detective fiction, a long [[tradi ...lar roots, some specific substantial communal [[identity]] - the "global [[order]]" is ultimately [[nothing]] but the very [[frame]] and container of this m
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• The Iraqui MacGuffin
  ...st serves to set in motion the story, but has no [[value]] in itself; in [[order]] to illustrate it, [[Hitchcock]] often quoted the following story: "Two ge ...uture is closed: the prospect of a breathtaking terrorist act is evoked in order to justify incessant preemptive strikes now. This closed loop was perfectly
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• Why We All Love to Hate Heider
  ...ared' and its corollary, the growing irrelevance of class antagonisms tout court. As its proponents like to put it, class antagonisms should not be 'essenti ...taining the semblance of courageous leaders who dare to defy the New World Order. It is not so much that they turn defeat into triumph; it is rather that, l
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• Are We in a War? Do We Have an Enemy?
  ...ing sides, but as a mediating [[agent]] of peace and [[Global Order|global order]], crushing rebellion and, simultaneously, providing humanitarian aid to th ...sed by the Taliban; as Tony Blair said, we may have to bomb the Taliban in order to secure food transportation and distribution. Perhaps the ultimate [[imag
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• I am a fighting atheist
  ...ew attention to how anarchists who preach "no [[state]] no [[power]]" in [[order]] to realize their goals usually [[form]] their own [[society]] which obeys ...at least strategically support the [[idea]] of some kind of international court and then try to put it to a more progressive use.</p>
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• Love of One's Neighbor
  ...[[other]]. Or is it the [[Other, the]] [[dead]] God of the [[symbolic]] [[order]] [[speaking]] through those priests who [[speak]] as if the old religious ...ciousness]]. His attributes are those of a [[thought]] which regulates the order of the [[real]]. It is Akhenaton's God, the God of the secret message that
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• Fool
  ...al is a fool, a court jester who publicly displays the lie of the existing order, but in a way which suspends the [[performative]] efficiency of his [[speec ...c who, by means of his ludic procedures destined to 'subvert' the existing order, actually serves as its [[supplement]].
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• Stalinism
  ...n [[signified]] proximity to Stalin." <ref>Simon Montefiore, ''Stalin. The Court of the Red Tsar'', London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson 2003, p. 168.</ref> Althou ...oiac [[construct]] is an attempt of the subject to reestablish a kind of [[order]] in his universe, a frame of reference enabling him to acquire a "cognitiv
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• Biopolitics
  ...isrupt, indeed tear apart, the [[illusory]] positivity of any [[social]] [[order]]. One does not [[understand]] Žižek’s politics if one misses the [[dia ...rvene in, a gap which is saturated by the political effort to impose a new order” (''LN'': 963). Th ere is no politics without the [[awareness]] that the
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• Overview
  ...of surface appearances which are deceptive, is structured by the symbolic order. It also involves a linguistic dimension: whereas the signifier is the foun ...by means of repetition: "the death drive is only the mask of the symmbolic order." This register is determinant of subjectivity; for Lacan the symbolic is c
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• Guide to Slavoj Zizek
  ...ive [[harmony]] between the two, preserving the realm of the personal in [[order]] that we may exist at all and securing it upon the ground of the impersona ...efore we can construct a [[substitute]] for it in the form of the Symbolic Order. Žižek reads this vanishing mediator as a passage through madness and, by
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• Love of the Neighbor
  ...[[other]]. Or is it the [[Other, the]] [[dead]] God of the [[symbolic]] [[order]] [[speaking]] through those priests who [[speak]] as if the old religious ...ciousness]]. His attributes are those of a [[thought]] which regulates the order of the [[real]]. It is Akhenaton's God, the God of the secret message that
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• Alain Badiou:Quotes
  **From ''Court traité d'ontologie transitoire''. Paris: Éditions du Seuil, 1998. ISBN 20 ...individuals consists in doing everything and [[thinking]] everything in [[order]] to escape, as much as possible, from the commandments, interventions and
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