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...nctly. When asked what deconstruction is, [[Derrida]] once stated, "I have no simple and formalizable response to this question. All my essays are attemp *While there is no doubting that principal [[figures]] associated with deconstruction in [[Fra

...ed the [[alienation]] and [[reification]] of our daily lives -, but Lenin, no, you can't be serious! The [[working]] [[class]] movement, revolutionary Pa ...imperceptibly transformed into a pseudo-[[psychoanalytic]] drama of the [[subject]] unable to confront its inner traumas… The [[true]] corruption of the Am

...in something, is that every honest man has a profound need to find another subject who would believe in his place… ==The subject supposed to believe==

Lusitania, Vol I, no 4, 1994. ...n. It says, let's stay free, don't identify too much, there are multiple [[subject]] positions and you must renew your [[personality]], don't make any lasting

...Eastern Europeans are going to arrive in Western [[Europe]] and the USA in no [[time]]. What do you [[think]] may happen to local regional cultures? ...on is about what it contains and what it does not contain: no cholesterol, no fat. This for me is the practical side of Spinoza today. The inherent [[dim

...nic [[violence]] to the "apolitical" [[passivity]] of the [[postmodern]] [[subject]]), psychoanalysis cannot account for the miraculous emergence of an egalit ...tate-"state of things" versus "State" in the political [[sense]]; there is no "state of society" without a "State" in which the structure of society is r

...gainst formal freedom worth saving today; when he underlines that there is no pure [[democracy]], that we should always ask whom a freedom under consider ...ed the [[alienation]] and [[reification]] of our daily lives… but Lenin, no, you can't be serious! The [[working]]-[[class]] movement, revolutionary pa

...proponent of this criticism is [[Judith]] [[Butler]], let me focus on her latest book, The [[Psychic]] [[Life]] of [[Power]].<ref>[[Judith Butler]], The Psy ...ous "passionate attachments," attachments publicly non-acknowledged by the subject:

...lines, yet this [[time]] the score contains no third absent melodic line, no inner voice - what is absent here is the absent melody, i.e. [[absence]] it ...f implicit (unspoken) obscene injunctions and prohibitions, teaching the [[subject]] how not to take some explicit norms seriously and how to implement a set

...not attacking lower classes as such, but, rather, the new masters who are no longer ready to assume the title of the Master - "slave" is Nietzsche's ter ...ment]]; however, beneath it, one can easily discern a worried hystericized subject, obsessed with [[anxiety]], addressing the doctor as his Master and asking

...rst book, a strangely neutral [[analysis]] of the Soviet [[ideology]] with no clear commitments; and, finally, attempts by some Habermasians who, reflect ...g or daydreaming of such a thing — a set of [[narrative]] protocols with no precedent in our previous [[literary]] institutions.<a name="7x"></a><a hre

...r [[present]] <i>in persona</i>. The point, of course, is that this other subject who directly believes does not need to actually [[exist]] for the belief to ...hat some of his most shocking statements turned out to be untrue: "We have no [[official]] reports to document any [[murder]]. Not one official report o

...not attacking lower classes as such, but, rather, the new masters who are no longer ready to assume the title of the Master - "slave" is Nietzsche's ter ...ment]]; however, beneath it, one can easily discern a worried hystericized subject, obsessed with [[anxiety]], addressing the doctor as his Master and asking

...nic [[violence]] to the "apolitical" [[passivity]] of the [[postmodern]] [[subject]]), psychoanalysis cannot account for the miraculous emergence of an egalit ...tate-"state of things" versus "State" in the political [[sense]]; there is no "state of society" without a "State" in which the structure of society is r

...000000" face="Courier,Helvetica,Arial,Times Roman"><tt> (Lusitania, Vol I, no 4, 1994)</tt></font></td></tr> ...n. It says, let's stay free, don't identify too much, there are multiple [[subject]] positions and you must renew your [[personality]], don't make any lasting

...Eastern Europeans are going to arrive in Western [[Europe]] and the USA in no [[time]]. What do you [[think]] may happen to local regional cultures? ...on is about what it contains and what it does not contain: no cholesterol, no fat. This for me is the practical side of Spinoza today. The inherent [[dim

...proponent of this criticism is [[Judith]] [[Butler]], let me focus on her latest book, <i>The [[Psychic]] [[Life]] of [[Power]]</i>.<ref>[[Judith Butler]], ...ous "passionate attachments," attachments publicly non-acknowledged by the subject:

<b>The subject of philosophy</b><br><br> ...the way of perdition with some innocent gangbang, which at the time was of no great importance to them, and ended up sharing the main dishes at a Chinese

...tude<img src="/ucp-entities/mdash.gif" alt="—" align="bottom" border="0">no wonder that, [[reading]] authors like MacDonald, one often cannot decide if ...s brutal [[intolerance]], which masks as high [[moral]] concern, found its latest exponent in Richard Wolin, whose <i>The [[Seduction]] of Unreason</i> is a

...n of the [[Other]] in the [[Schema]] L (27, 31) "extends as far into the [[subject]] as the laws of speech reign," the laws that are the binary laws of cybern

...truggle]] is going on now: the struggle for the <i>[[meaning]]</i> of this NO - who will appropriate it? Who - if anyone - will translate it into a [[co ..., it is as a rule in the guise of a [[right]]ist [[populist]] [[revolt]] - no wonder many [[enlightened technocrats|enlightened technocratic]] [[liberals

...n]] phenomenon, the obverse of the highly reflexive self-ironical attitude-no wonder that, [[reading]] authors like MacDonald, one often cannot decide if ...s brutal [[intolerance]], which masks as high [[moral]] concern, found its latest exponent in Richard Wolin, whose The [[Seduction]] of Unreason is a worthy

...nt?" His answer is well-known: they want corruption - another name for the subject's defeat.<ref>Alain Badiou, ''Logiques des mondes'', Paris: Seuil 2006, p. ...on between justice and vengeance, in which "people" (the anonymous part of no-part) imposes its terror and makes other parts pay the price - the Judgment

...[words]] indeed, care of Slovenian [[philosopher]] Slavoj [[Zizek]], whose latest [[intellectual]] Molotov cocktail, ''''The [[Pervert]]'s [[Guide]] to Cinem But this is no dry [[thesis]] delivered from the [[dead]] wood of a lecture hall podium. H

...ists" claimed decades ago)? This entire topic has to be rejected: there is no opposition here, the Fall is to be inscribed into the very origins. (To put ...phoric expansion of class struggle: "today's predominant class struggle is no longer between capitalists and proletariat in each country, it shifted to t

* [[Zizek, Slavoj|Slavoj Zizek]]'s latest article, "''[[The True Hollywood Left]]''" is now available. [[No Subject - News|Continue for more News]].

...ovement in the last years? Does it not clearly contradict this diagnostic? No: a close look quickly shows how this movement also succumbs to "the temptat ...whether to sink the ship. Two of [[them]] said yes and the [[other]] said no. "A guy named Arkhipov saved the [[world]]," was a bitter comment of a hist

...volutionary subject." Or, as Badiou would have put it: "Only if there is a subject, an Event can occur within an evental site."<br><br> ...onses to an Event (the faithful subject; the reactive subject; the obscure subject; resurrection) should be complicated a little bit, so that there are six re

...tradition]], within which [[truth]] is accessible to any [[rational]] man, no matter how depraved he is, which is why he is subjectively [[responsible]] ...culous theatrical pose, my first reaction was that this was a shot of some latest performance art show in Lower Manhattan. The very positions and costumes of

...wrote: "God is a life, not merely a being. But all life has a fate and is subject to suffering and becoming. /.../ Without the concept of a humanly suffering ...is, more than the Jewish tradition, the basic Protestant lesson: there is no direct access to freedom/autonomy; between the master/slave exchange-relati

...ch­ing on sci­en­ti­fic know­ledge"); and Hegel claims his thought is no longer a mere philo-sophy (love of wis­dom) but true wis­dom (know­ledg ...of axioms and rule in which no cos­mic mean­ing res­on­ates, there are no sac­red, lucky or damned num­bers. Pre­cisely as such, math­em­at­ics

...g fake in Lacan's fascination with late Joyce, with Finnegan's Wake as the latest version of the literary Gesamtkunstwerk with its endless wealth of lalangue ...[3] The obvious link is that the first line of the first text ("Suddenly, no, at last, long last, I couldn't any more") echoes the famous last line of T

...tion in Bataille), they remain within the field they try to leave behind. No wonder, then, that Foucault reacted so violently to Derrida's critical anal ...''malin'' ''génie'') as well as in Kant (his notion of the transcendental subject emerged from the critique of Swedenborg, whose religious dreams stand for m

...ghtenment tradition, within which truth is accessible to any rational man, no matter how depraved he is, which is why he is subjectively responsible for ...culous theatrical pose, my first reaction was that this was a shot of some latest performance art show in Lower Manhattan. The very positions and costumes of