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As Badiou demonstrated apropos of the Stalinist show trials, this violent effort to distill the pure Real from the elusive reality nece ...isfied… The underlying experience of Time Out of Joint and of The Truman Show is that the late [[capitalist]] consumerist Californian paradise is, in its

...plain the functioning of the [[ritual]] of [[self]]-accusation in the show trials). Furthermore, the picture that emerges of this period from the late 20ies ...trials, no ritualized public self-accusations comparable to Stalinist show trials: [[people]] simply disappeared in the night, they were dragged away, and no

...as it is now, would be changed into mere mechanism, where, as in a puppet show, everything would gesticulate well but no life would be found in the figure ...additional pressure on them and thus to assure their participation in the trials. One of the Soviet explanations was that, in Soviet Union, the most highly

...es is clear, just as it is when we recall that in the [[Stalinist]] [[show trials]], the accused had [[public]]ly to [[confess]] his crimes and give an accou

...ard's [[refusal]] to demonstrate support for the victims of Stalinist show trials: "I spend enough [[time]] defending the innocent who proclaim their innocen

...eason. If, after having seen that the one accords with the other, we [765] show that it completes it, we will say that it gives the truth of the ''Critique ...icism, doubtless innocent, but perceptible, whose well-foundedness we will show in the nature of the said object.

Another comical detail along these lines: the public prosecutor in the show trial against the "United Trotskyte-Zinovievite Centre" published a [[list] ...started a procedure against an old Communist functionary involved in show trials and mass killings without trial of the members of the Slovene anti-Communis

...ty]], but publicly you have to obey social [[rituals]]. The Stalinist show trials are an example of this obsession. What was the point of public [[confession

...cist and the Stalinist [[universe]] is obvious; say, in the Stalinist show trials, the accused has to publicly confess his crimes and to give an account of h ...as [[Jean-Claude Milner]] put it, comparing Rousseau to the Stalinist show trials, "in the matter of [[confessions]], Geneva does not necessarily win over Mo

...cist and the Stalinist [[universe]] is obvious; say, in the Stalinist show trials, the accused has to publicly confess his crimes and to give an account of h ...my first reaction was that this was a shot of some latest performance art show in Lower Manhattan. The very positions and costumes of the prisoners [[sugg

...nsisting that this must be another bird, the dead one's brother. After the show, we see the magician in a room behind the stage, bringing in a flattened ca ...Brecht in Sidney Hook's apartment, apropos the accused at the Moscow show trials in the 1930s, can be recast in these terms:

...Fascist and the Stalinist universe is obvious; say, in the Stalinist show trials, the accused has to publicly confess his crimes and to give an account of h ...my first reaction was that this was a shot of some latest performance art show in Lower Manhattan. The very positions and costumes of the prisoners sugges