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• Signifier
  ...of all a [[meaning]]less [[material]] element in a ''closed differential [[system]]''; this "'''signifier without the signified'''" is called by [[Lacan]] th ...is not a [[system]] of [[sign]]s -- as it was for [[Saussure]] -- but a [[system]] of [[signifier]]s.
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• Semiotics
  ...d the [[nature]] of the sign within a [[Convention (norm)|convention]]al [[system]]. These theories have had a lasting effect in [[Western philosophy]], espe ...eer, beginning with the triadic relation just described, and ending with a system consisting of 59,049 possible elements and relations. One [[reason]] for th
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• Roland Barthes
  In ''The Fashion [[System]]'' Barthes showed how this adulteration of signs could easily be translate ...f system. That is to say, without some regular standard of measurement, a system of criticism that references [[nothing]] [[outside]] of the actual work its
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• Lacanian Psychoanalysis
  .... He retains the main concepts but juggles with [[them]] to create a new [[system]] of thought. A subtle thinker, he offers us a rigorous reformulation of Fr ...[signification]] retrospectively, after the fact, no signification is ever closed, ever [[satisfied]].11 Each word is only definable in [[terms]] of other wo
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• Repeating Lenin (Essay)
  ...tion two supreme examples from it: What to do if an alligator has its jaws closed on your limb? (Answer: you should tap or punch it on the snout, because all ...ife, in the speculative movement of [[money]] begetting more money, of a [[system]] which can survive only by constantly revolutionizing its own conditions,
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• The Matrix, or, Two Sides of Perversion
  ...ention also Brian Aldiss' Starship, in which members of a tribe leave in a closed world of a tunnel in a giant starship, isolated from the rest of the ship b ...by Neo in the last scene. As the result of Neo's intervention, there is a "SYSTEM FAILURE" in the Matrix; at the same time, Neo addresses people still caught
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• Human Rights and Its Discontents
  ...t Hindu cosmology first copied onto the social order in the guise of the [[system]] of castes, and then onto the individual organism itself in the guise of t ...ut it is [[impossible]] to imagine a much more modest change of the social system — as if, even if the whole life on earth disappears, capitalism will some
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• The Leninist Freedom
  ...this reasoning resides? First, it reduces a historical constellation to a closed, fully contextualized, [[situation]] in which the “objective” consequen ...ed that this freedom involved wild privatization, the dismantling of the [[system]] of [[social]] security, etc. etc. — they still have the freedom to choo
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• A Plea for Leninist Intolerance
  ...this reasoning resides? First, it reduces a historical constellation to a closed, fully contextualized situation in which the "[[objective]]" consequences o ...al life, in the speculative movement of money begetting more money, of a [[system]] that can survive only by constantly revolutionizing its own conditions, t
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• The Stellar Parallax: The Traps of Ontological Difference
  ...of the Absolute, it is too modest: it silently reduces Hegel's logic to a system of global epistemology, of all possible epistemological stances, and what g ...f modernity of its antagonism, of the way it is embedded in the capitalist system, by relegating this aspect just to one of its historical subspecies. (One s
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• Move the Underground!
  ...torture and humiliation one has to undergo in order to be accepted into a closed community. Do we not see similar photos in regular intervals in the US pres ...ith the military power [[system]], he turned into the [[excess]] which the system has to eliminate. The ultimate horizon of <i>Apocalypse Now</i> is this ins
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• Attempts to Escape the Logic of Capitalism
  ...onvinced that radical change of the existing liberal-democratic capitalist system is no longer possible, but who are unable to [[renounce]] their passionate
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• What Is To Be Done (With Lenin)?
  ...this reasoning resides? First, it reduces a historical constellation to a closed, fully contextualized [[situation]] in which the “objective” consequenc ...nswer is yes, it is of secondary importance if the state has a one-party [[system]]. If the answer is no, it is of secondary importance if we have parliament
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• The Matrix, or, the Two Sides of Perversion
  ...ention also Brian Aldiss' Starship, in which members of a tribe leave in a closed world of a tunnel in a giant starship, isolated from the rest of the ship b ...by Neo in the last scene. As the result of Neo's intervention, there is a "SYSTEM FAILURE" in the Matrix; at the same time, Neo addresses people still caught
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• Against The Double Blackmail
  ...a), until, finally, the focus of the conflict returned to Kosovo - as in a closed loop of Destiny, the arrow returned to the one who lanced it by way of sett ...g that his crime is the result of social [[pathology]] of the capitalist [[system]]. The way to fight the capitalist New World Order is not by supporting loc
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• Correspondence with Jacques Lacan (1963 - 1969)
  ...on, when we were [[walking]] through the streets before the tobacco stands closed, I was saying to you precisely ''about the outside''. Yes, there is an out ...cial]] [[stability]] can supply illumination concerning the stability of a system in general) one day elaborated the theory, I mean in a [[dictionary]]. (And
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• Never Mind the Bollocks
  ...was in his early teens where he attended a High School based on the German system of rigorous drilling in a classical education. He won't admit to being exce ...ive model is the [[hysteric]] who struggles and resists their place in the system, [[knows]] it's a "fundamental lie" and remains "open". Their ambivalent at
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• Slavoj Zizek: An Introduction
  ...o interpret, intervene and transform the symbolic coordinates of any given system of meaning. When we try to follow Zizek's attempt to combine the different ...make. As if. This leads us to the first question. There is no theoretical system as such in Zizek's work, but it often seems as if there is one. How do we a
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• Slavoj Zizek: Live Theory
  ...zes all significant 'postmodern' thought: the problem of what to say about closed systems, systems of which there is no external standard of judgement, in wh ...e not only elaborating a particular subject as the name of a philosophical system or a philosophy that will come to be known by a particular name, but - alth
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• A Plea for a Return to Différance (with a Minor Pro Domo Sua)
  ...dernity from its antagonism, from the way it is embedded in the capitalist system, by relegating this aspect to just one of its historical subspecies. (One s ...r activity into an end in itself. We become humans when we get caught in a closed, self-propelling loop of [[repeating]] the same gesture and finding [[satis
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