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• Death
  ...[[existence]] only takes on [[meaning]] by virtue of the finite [[limit]] set by [[death]], so that the [[human]] [[subject]] is properly a "[[death|bein
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• Alain Badiou
  ...Event]], which he theorizes in [[mathematical]] [[terms]], using Cantorian set [[theory]]. Being, or Being-as-Being, is for Badiou an “irreducible multi ...and “[[historicity]] proper”: whereas the former refers to a specific set of historical circumstances that lead to, and explain, the Event, the latte
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• The Matrix, or, Two Sides of Perversion
  ...at if ideology resides in the very belief that, outside the closure of the finite universe, there is some "true reality" to be entered?(2)
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• Psychoanalysis in Post-Marxism: The Case of Alain Badiou
  ...to the infinite order of Truth, the subject always has to operate within a finite multiple of a situation in which he discerns the signs of Truth. Take, for ...ween [[historicism]] and [[historicity]] proper: historicism refers to the set of circumstances (economic, political, [[cultural]], etc.) whose complex in
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• From 'Passionate Attachments' to Dis-Identification
  ..."[[speech]] act," relies for its performative power on the preestablished set of symbolic rules and/or norms. ...ho disavows that divine miracles occur and reduces himself to just another finite mortal being.<ref>In a further elaboration, one should thus reread Lacan's
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• The Stellar Parallax: The Traps of Ontological Difference
  ...ltimately, he reduced transcendental horizon to a way reality appears to a finite being (man), with all of it located into a wider encompassing realm of noum ...contrary, in his very search for a transcendent domain beyond the realm of finite oppositions: Kant is not unable to reach the Infinite - what he is unable o
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• Bring Me My Philips Mental Jacket
  ...o on) but that [[particular]] [[scientific]] breakthroughs are immediately set against [[humanist]] 'values', leading to complaints that [[biogenetics]], ...e human genome effectively emancipates humankind from the constraints of a finite [[species]], from enslavement to the 'selfish gene'. Emancipation comes at
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• Parallax View
  ...e other species being the »mortal souls,« but the open-ended, illimited, set of souls which belong to the third domain, neither mortal nor immortal. For ...ltimately, he reduced transcendental horizon to a way reality appears to a finite being (man), with all of it located into a wider encompassing realm of noum
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• The Matrix, or, the Two Sides of Perversion
  ...at if ideology resides in the very belief that, outside the closure of the finite universe, there is some "true reality" to be entered?(2)<br>
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• Psychoanalysis and Post-Marxism
  ...to the infinite order of Truth, the subject always has to operate within a finite multiple of a situation in which he discerns the signs of Truth. Take, for ...ween [[historicism]] and [[historicity]] proper: historicism refers to the set of circumstances (economic, political, [[cultural]], etc.) whose complex in
  71 KB (11,385 words) - 21:34, 20 May 2019
• From "Passionate Attachments" to Dis-identification
  ..."[[speech]] act," relies for its performative power on the preestablished set of symbolic rules and/or norms. ...ho disavows that divine miracles occur and reduces himself to just another finite mortal being.<ref>In a further elaboration, one should thus reread Lacan's
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• Mourning
  The "[[work of mourning]]" is a set of [[mental]] [[processes]], [[conscious]] and [[unconscious]], initiated b ...ct's disappearance—is itself a way of refusing reality. For the object's finite [[nature]] [[exists]] in that outside world, irrespective of the subject's
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• No Sex, Please, We're Post-Human!
  ...devour its own [[children]], the [[political]] [[agent]] which effectively set in motion the process is renegated into the role of its main obstacle, of t ...mposes itself: the human being IS in its very [[essence]] a "passage," the finite opens into an abyss.
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• Of Structure as an Inmixing of an Otherness Prerequisite to Any Subject Whatever
  ...ou take the set of all elements which are not members of themselves, the [[set]] that you constitute with such elements leads you to a paradox which, as y
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• Linguistics and Language
  ...nces, an infinite variety of sentences, and infinitely long sentences from finite means (Aspects 15–16). Cognitive linguistics. While generative grammar assumes a set of specifically linguistic universal principles underlying all languages, c
  38 KB (5,148 words) - 01:00, 26 May 2019
• Badiou: Notes From an Ongoing Debate
  ...s and communities embedded in it, always experience from a [[particular]], finite, perspective of our historical world. ...ace of visibility of the ruling ideology) as “minor” measures will not set in motion a [[process]] that will lead to the radical (evental) transformat
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• On Alain Badiou and Logiques des mondes
  ...ruly New, possible?", but, rather, how do we pass from Being to World, to (finite) appearance, i.e., how can Being, its flat infinite multiplicity, APPEAR (t ...duals and communities embedded in it, always experience from a particular, finite, perspective of our historical world. What democratic materialism furiously
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• Cogito, Madness and Religion: Derrida, Foucault and then Lacan
  ...Punish, of the [[formation]] of the free individual through a [[complex]] set of disciplinary micro-practices - and, as Pippin doesn't wait to point out, ...rnal agent of &quot;natural authority&quot;, who can do the job for me and set me my limit, that I myself have to pose a limit to my natural &quot;unrulin
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• Only a Suffering God Can Save Us
  ...for some form of divine limitation: (1) first, God is directly posited as finite or, at least, contained, not omnipotent, not all-encompassing: he finds him ...the third position above and beyond the first two (the sovereign God, the finite God), that of a suffering God: not a triumphalist God who always wins at th
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• Madness and Habit in German Idealism
  ...yclopaedia</i>, Par. 410.</ref> Not only language, a much more [[complex]] set of spiritual and [[bodily]] activities have to be turned into a habit in or ...aying wheel which prays for me to today’s "canned laughter" where the TV set laughs for me, turning my emotional display quite literally into a mechanic
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