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• Move the Underground!
  ...should recall here one of the most discusting rituals of the anti-black [[violence]] in the Old US south: a black guy is cornered by white thugs and then comp ...he clandestine night-time beating of a fellow-soidier who has broken the [[ethical]] standards of the Marines. Such a code condones an act of transgression, i
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• Over the Rainbow Coalition!
  ...nsequent [[materialism]] which is able to sustain a truly ascetic militant ethical stance. ...s - among them, surprisingly, Henry David Thoreau, the great opponent of [[violence]]: against the standard dismissal of Brown as blood-thirsty, foolish and in
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• Opera
  ...[existence]], of giving up eternity for the sake of love, is the highest [[ethical]] act of [[them]] all? Ernst Bloch was [[right]] to remark that what is [[l ...of the end of the world is ultimately Wotan's own guilt, the result of his ethical fiasco - in Hegelese, external opposition is the effect of inner contradict
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• Smashing the Neighbor's Face
  ...uilty]] in front of everyone, but I am that more than all [[others]]." The ethical asymmetry between me and the other addressing me with the infinite call is ...ap that separates [[Judaism]] and [[Christianity]] - Judaism's fundamental ethical task is that of how "to be without being a murderer":
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• Passion In The Era of Decaffeinated Belief
  ...incorrect (but, nonetheless, obvious) fact that there is a deep strain of violence and intolerance in Islam — that, to put it bluntly, something in Islam re ...y the Other, every ethical pressure is experienced as a false front of the violence of power. This stance gives rise to the effort to "rewrite" religious injun
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• When Straight Means Weird and Psychosis is Normal
  ...n, bringing to the light the [[obscene]] underworld of perverted sex and [[violence]] that lurks beneath the respectable surface of our lives. ...previous films? What if, in our postmodern [[world]] in which the radical ethical commitment is perceived as ridiculously out of time, he is the true outcast
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• The Act and Its Vicissitudes
  ...nts to eradicate, so that, as [[Brecht]] put it apropos of revolutionary [[violence]] in his <i>The Measure Taken</i>, he wants to be the last piece of dirt wi ...he basic discursive strategies of legitimizing suffering: Job's properly [[ethical]] dignity resides in the way he persistently detects the notion that his su
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• The Iraqi MacGuffin
  ...t rather, on the contrary - [[secret]] recognition of the special higher [[ethical]] standards of the [[Jews]]: how can, of all the people, YOU behave like th ...za - is the only solution to the crisis. However, since Mitzma is a decent ethical figure lacking _strong maní charisma, they don't trust him to be able to a
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• Heiner Mueller Out of Joint
  ...of democracy, the theatralization of [[politics]], the inevitability of [[violence]] — three features which directly contradict the three dogmas of today's ...ematic [[scene]] rendering the exuberant orgy of revolutionary destructive violence (what Eisenstein himself called "a veritable bacchanalia of [[destruction]]
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• Some Politically Incorrect Reflections on Violence in France
  ==1. Violence, Irrational and Rational== ...he one between playing by the rules and ([[self]]-)destructive violence, a violence which is almost exclusively directed against one's own - the cars burned an
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• The Antinomies of Tolerant Reason: A Blood-Dimmed Tide is Loosed
  ...y playful-ironic reference to God? For a Western liberal, the sight of mob violence cannot but evoke the first line from William Butler Yeats’ “Second Comi ...the main cause of the debilitating deadlock of our reactions to the Muslim violence. These reactions oscillated between the two extremes of clinging to the fre
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• Attempts to Escape the Logic of Capitalism
  ...lesson of Havel's tragedy is thus a cruel, but inexorable one: the direct ethical foundation of politics sooner or later turns into its own comic caricature,
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• Revolution
  ...all the [[time]] so that, precisely, [[nothing]] would really happen.<ref>violence</ref></blockquote>
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• The Pope's Failures
  ..., betrayed what was best in the late pope, his <i>intractable</i> [[ethics|ethical]] stance.</p> ...“[[ethics]] without violence,” a sort of permanent (re)negotiation of ethical [[norms]]. It is here where the highest [[cultural critique]] unexpectedly
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• The Desert of the Real
  of ruthless [[violence]] and [[destruction]] to the “savage” Outside. It’s the left’s political and [[ethical]] defeat in the face of acts of quite
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• Passion: Regular or Decaf?
  ...the courage to recognize the obvious fact that there is a deep strain of [[violence]] and in[[tolerance]] in [[Islam]] — that, to put it bluntly, something i ...gh [[materialism]] that is able to sustain a truly ascetic, militant and [[ethical]] stance.
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• Revenge of Global Finance
  ...to privilege and elevate some [[object]] above [[others]]. [[Love]] is [[violence]] not (only) in the vulgar [[sense]] of the [[Balkan]] proverb, "If he does ...ht on the mad dance of billion-dollar speculations with his philosophico-[[ethical]] [[statement]], "Release your attachment to something that is not there in
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• Henning Mankell, the Artist of the Parallax View
  ...rals in Bergmanland" abounds with the topics of meaningless outbursts of [[violence]], often suicidal one, miserable disappointments in [[love]] [[life]], late "The outer ring of Christianity is a rigid guard of [[ethical]] abnegations and professional priests; but [[inside]] that inhuman guard y
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• Passion in the Era of Decaffeinated Belief
  ...incorrect (but, nonetheless, obvious) fact that there is a deep strain of violence and intolerance in Islam — that, to put it bluntly, something in Islam re ...y the Other, every ethical pressure is experienced as a false front of the violence of power. This stance gives rise to the effort to "rewrite" religious injun
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• Liberation Hurts
  ...dical [[Otherness]] confronting us with the absolute [[responsibility]], [[ethical]] [[injunction]], all that. So, what interests me is precisely this kind of ...harges that you are promoting [[terrorism]] or romanticizing revolutionary violence?<br><br>
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