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...Denkverbot, the [[prohibition]] to [[think]]. Today's liberal-democratic [[hegemony]] is sustained by a kind of unwritten Denkverbot similar to the infamous Be ...e [[proletariat]]. This is what Ernesto [[Laclau]] rejects in his logic of hegemony: for Laclau, the short-circuit between the Universal and the Particular is

...s space really [[gender]]-neutral? No – but not in the sense of secret [[hegemony]] of the male “phallocentric” logic: on the contrary, the space without

...o destroy Iraq's WMD is evoked to justify the brutal need to assert the US hegemony), with the last term in each of the two series [[being]] the same - oil (in ...[[others]] are the US themselves; (2) even if it is not only about oil and hegemony and the attack is justified, since Saddam is a murderer and torturer, and h

...not prescribed in advance but, precisely, the stake of the struggle for [[hegemony]]: even [[ideology|ideological]] elements like brutal [[racism]] and [[anti ...]]</i> of the "[[general equivalent]]" of all struggles. The struggle for hegemony thus not only presupposes an [[irreducibility|irreducible]] [[gap]] between

...far from being simply "subversive," also fits the (military, economic, and ideologico-political) operational mode of today's capitalism. And, back to Badiou, as Alberto To ...when we focus on one term, the other two get condensed into one (under the hegemony of one of them). If we focus on the Imaginary, the Real and the Symbolic ge

...impossible fullness of Society. Referring to Joan Copjec, Laclau compares hegemony to the "breast-value" attached to partial objects which stand-in for the in ...'s desire) AND shattering, disturbing, inassimilable into our reality. The ideologico-political dimension of this notion of "traversing the fantasy" was rendered clear by