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• When Straight Means Weird and Psychosis is Normal
  ...[obscene]] underworld of perverted sex and [[violence]] that lurks beneath the respectable surface of our lives. ...ive]] [[excess]] loses its shocking [[value]] and is fully integrated into the establishet artistic market.
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• Heiner Mueller Out of Joint
  ...advance to the eccentric [[artist]], and to see if it can be justified on The [[case]] against Mueller seems clear.<br><br> ...even a couple of decades ago, the special entrances which enable [[them]] the access to restaurants, theatres, etc., would have been unthinkable.<br><br>
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• Some Politically Incorrect Reflections on Violence in France
  ...not from rich neighborhoods, but were part of the hard-won acquisitions of the very strata from which protesters originate. ...r of these outbursts residing in the easily predictable racist REACTION of the French populist crowd to them.
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• Nobody Has to Be Vile
  ...s and less [[about]] [[them]] over the [[past]] couple of years. Where did the bright stars of Porto Alegre go? ...e the global capitalist cake (thrive as entrepreneurs) and eat it (endorse the anti-capitalist causes of [[social]] [[responsibility]], ecological concern
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• The Two Totalitarianisms
  ...ply to [[Communist]] [[symbol]]s: not only the hammer and sickle, but even the red star. This proposal should not be dismissed lightly: it suggests a dee ...ded as responsible for his crimes. But for the [[Nazi]]s the [[guilt]] of the [[Jew]]s was a fact of their [[biological]] constitution: there was no need
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• Attempts to Escape the Logic of Capitalism
  ...of politics sooner or later turns into its own comic caricature, adopting the very [[cynicism]] it originally opposed. * [[Attempts to Escape the Logic of Capitalism]]. ''[[London]] Review of Books''. Volume 21. [[Number]
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• Are We in a War
  ...] terrorist attacks, but effectively to rule out any peaceful solution for the foreseeable future? ...habitants of the favelas in [[Brazil]] or the African American ghettoes in the US.
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• Surrealism
  ...owever, offered the young Lacan an alternative route to psychoanalysis and the crucial link to his [[clinical]] [[practice]] in [[psychiatry]]. ...sis]] and during his medical studies Lacan developed strong [[links]] with the movement.
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• The Purloined Letter
  ...nt early forefunners of the modern detective story. It first appeared in ''The [[Gift]] for 1845'' (1844) and was soon reprinted in numerous journals and ...when they are joined by the Prefect of the Police, a man known only as G-. The Prefect has a [[case]] he would like to discuss with M. Dupin.
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• Blade Runner
  ...es, Joe Turkel and Joanna Cassidy. The lead art designer was Syd Mead, and the soundtrack composer was Vangelis. ...unners — hunt down and "retire" (i.e. kill) escaped replicants on Earth. The film primarily focuses on a particularly brutal and cunning group of replic
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• The Liberal Communists of Porto Davos
  ...ever, the Porto Alegre reunions seem to have lost their impetus. Where did the bright stars of Porto Alegre go? ...pitalist cake (thrive as profitable entrepreneurs) and eat it too (endorse the anti-capitalist causes of social [[responsibility]], ecological concerns, e
  10 KB (1,545 words) - 00:51, 21 May 2019
• The Pope's Failures
  ...l]], and its nod toward [[liberal]] sensibility, betrayed what was best in the late pope, his <i>intractable</i> [[ethics|ethical]] stance.</p> ...]]. It is here where the highest [[cultural critique]] unexpectedly meets the lowest [[pop psychology]].
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• Ideology Reloaded
  ..., setting in motion the universalized [[process]] of [[recognition]], like the proverbial painting of God that seems always to stare directly at you from ...(what they falsely consider to be) reality—in short, the [[position]] of the [[cinema]] spectators themselves.<br><br>
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• What Does Europe Want? (article)
  On May 1, eight new countries were welcomed into the European Union—but which “Europe” will they find there? In the months before Slovenia’s entry to the [[European Union]], whenever a foreign journalist asked me what new [[dimen
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• The Free World ... of Slums
  ...] [[recall]] the gentle irony of a novel of manners, giving a new twist to the old topic of “[[European trinity]].” ...s (Should they join the European Monetary Union?); the Germans worry about the sad inertia of their [[economy]].
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• Catastrophes Real and Imagined
  ...of the [[Bush]] (or, rather, Cheney) [[doctrine]] now publicly declared as the [[official]] U.S. “philosophy” of international [[politics]]?<br><br> ...should seek ad hoc international coalitions for such attacks, it reserves the right to act independently without international support.<br><br>
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• The Subject Supposed to Loot and Rape
  ...it, either in the guise of the [[primitive]] [[Other]] or in the guise of the impersonal "one" ("one believes...").</p> ...they're [[being]] preyed upon. They are beating, they are raping them in the streets." In an interview just weeks later, he conceded that some of his m
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• Henning Mankell, the Artist of the Parallax View
  ...tor Kurt Wallander as their hero, is the exemplary [[case]] of the fate of the detective novel in our era of [[global]] [[capitalism]].<br> ...nglish]] countryside for the classic whodunit; Los Angeles or New York for the hard-boiled novel...).<br>
  13 KB (2,091 words) - 23:23, 24 May 2019
• Can Lenin Tell Us about Freedom Today
  ...hat these both Marxes have in common is the [[denial]] of politics proper; the reference to Lenin enables us to avoid these two pitfalls. ...einterprets Christ's crucifixion as his triumph; Lacan reads Freud through the [[mirror]]-[[stage]] [[Saussure]]), Lenin violently displaces Marx, tears h
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• Against The Double Blackmail
  ...] will be that Milosevic will be proclaimed the [[political]] blunderer of the year. ...or some [[form]] of radical decentralization, from a loose confederacy to the [[full]] [[sovereignty]] of its units.
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