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• Passion: Regular or Decaf?
  ...gressive]] [[religious]] [[passion]], which remains smoldering beneath the surface and, finding no release, gets stronger and stronger. The [[structure]] of the “[[chocolate laxative]],” of a product containing the [[agent]
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• The Liberal Waterloo
  ...]] “[[totalitarian]]” twist, this [[paradox]] is built into the very [[structure]] of [[democracy]]. [[Democracy]] is based on a [[short-circuit]] between ...]] of [[space]] weapons that enable the Pentagon to [[control]] the global surface from above. This strategy throws a new light on the recent conflicts betwe
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• Passion in the Era of Decaffeinated Belief
  ...ious passion is merely repressed: it remains there, smoldering beneath the surface and, finding no release, gets stronger and stronger. ...e harassed, i.e., to be kept at a safe distance from the others. A similar structure is clearly present in how we relate to capitalist profiteering: it is OK IF
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• Homo Sacer as the Object of the University Discourse
  ...the way in which medical discourse functions in our everyday lives: at the surface level, we are dealing with pure [[objective]] knowledge which desubjectiviz ...]] is not intrusive, insofar as the Other is not really Other… A similar structure is clearly [[present]] in how we relate to [[capitalist]] profiteering: it
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• The Thing from Inner Space
  ...her, generates the destructive monster is a gigantic mechanism beneath the surface of this distant planet, the mysterious remnants of some [[past]] [[civiliza ...l's end, we see Kelvin alone on the spaceship, staring into the mysterious surface of the Solaris ocean...
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• You May!
  ...ig Other: in every [[case]] what is wanted is an [[agent]] who will give [[structure]] to our chaotic social lives.<br> Reflexivisation has transformed the structure of social dominance. Take the [[public]] [[image]] of Bill Gates. Gates is
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• The Matrix, or, the Two Sides of Perversion
  ...to the surface of the Earth, what they find there is no longer the bright surface illuminated by the rays of the Sun, the supreme Good, but the desolate "des ...lls the strings, the subject doesn't speak, he "is spoken" by the symbolic structure. In short, this "big Other" is the name for the social Substance, for all t
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• The Spectre Is Still Roaming Around
  ...ly expanding market for its products chases the bourgeoisie over the whole surface of the globe. It must nestle everywhere, settle everywhere, establish conne ...ity]], but that it is "real" in the precise [[sense]] of determining the [[structure]] of the very material social [[processes]]: the fate of whole strata of th
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• From "Passionate Attachments" to Dis-identification
  ...n reduces resistance to [[the imaginary]] misrecognition of the symbolic [[structure]]. Such a resistance, although it thwarts the [[full]] symbolic realization ...he desperately clings to the conviction that, behind the cold manipulative surface, there must be a heart of gold to be saved, a person of warm human [[feelin
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• Correspondence with Jacques Lacan (1963 - 1969)
  ...they saw that it was their own reserves that you were bringing back to the surface, in those mute and sprightly beings, without perceiving that one can catch ...sends us to the desire of the [[analyzed]]. Desire of a desire. [[Dual]] [[structure]] of [[fascination]], whence so many interminable-unterminated [[analyses]]
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• Psychoanalysis and the Post-Political
  [[structure]] . . . [[social]] phenomena . . . ?" shouldn't be trusted; beneath this apparently [[marxist]], [[left-wing]] surface,
  63 KB (10,146 words) - 21:35, 20 May 2019
• Slavoj Zizek: An Introduction
  ...nwittingly installs a heterosexual matrix as a permanent and incontestable structure of culture in which women operate as a "stain" in discourse'.<a name="19x"> ...becomes relevant to ask of Zizek, is how certain assumptions about formal structure are themselves a function of a particular historical conjuncture. Commentin
  95 KB (15,989 words) - 07:54, 12 September 2015
• Slavoj Žižek: What is a Master-Signifier
  ...nt of, some empirical 'richness' that is in [[excess]] of any attempt to [[structure]] it (CHU, 215-6). Rather, it is because whatever it is that quilts the soc ...h an empirical observation that comes out of the [[world]] or a [[formal]] structure that precedes it as what at once makes the world over in its [[image]] and
  105 KB (18,216 words) - 20:53, 23 May 2019
• Slavoj Zizek: Live Theory
  ..., indeed, an argument for a form of Communism involving an organized party structure and the socialization of economic resources. Zizek's politics here have mov ...ought. Is there anything beneath the glittering brilliance of its writerly surface, its extraordinary and eclectic range of references, its argumentative brio
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• A Plea for a Return to Différance (with a Minor Pro Domo Sua)
  ...educed to the dialectic between ideal and its actualization: the messianic structure of "to come," the excess of an abyss that cannot ever be actualized in its ...rames is obvious in Kazimir Malevich (what is his <i>Black Square on White Surface</i> if not the minimal marking of the distance between the two frames?), in
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• Lacan's Metaphor of the Mirror Stage
  ...[[mathematical]] [[theory]] without which it is absolutely impossible to [[structure]] it. For there to be an optics, for each given point in real [[space]], th ...s, in the same plane, through the convergence of the rays reflected on the surface of the sphere, another luminous point - which yields a real image of the ob
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• The Topic of the Imaginary
  ...questions concerning the [[place]] of the imaginary in the [[symbolic]] [[structure]] crop up while following the thread of our [[discourse]], today's chat may ...y literally but use it to [[help]] us understand the various functions and structure of the [[psychical]].]<br>
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• The Anamorphosis
  ...sion of <i>seeing itsefseeing itsef, </i>finds its basis in the inside-out structure of the gaze.<p> ...ng has been misunderstood as being in its dependence-derives from its very structure.<br>
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• Bon, alors j'entre dans le vif
  surface, qu'on a essayé de fabriquer. C'est probablement que la chose mise à plat, la surface, c'est très lié, enfin,
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• Bon, aujourd'hui
  dimensions s'y situent d'un côté de la surface, mais du "cesser" comment trouver ce qui fait fonction-surface et ce qui à mon dire
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