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• Ideology Reloaded
  ...r you look at it—practically every orientation seems to recognize itself in it.<br><br> ...ch the shadowy performance of (what they falsely consider to be) reality—in short, the [[position]] of the [[cinema]] spectators themselves.<br><br>
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• Learning To Love Leni Riefenstahl
  ...p sea diving and started shooting documentaries [[about]] the strange life in the dark depths of the sea.<br><br> ...prowess at climbing a deadly mountain. Is it not possible to read the film in exactly the opposite way as it usually is [[interpreted]]? Is Junta, the lo
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• What Is To Be Done (With Lenin)?
  ...hevik and Socialist-Revolutionaries’ critique of the Bolshevik [[power]] in 1922? ...r views, or, if you insist on expressing your [[political]] views publicly in the [[present]] circumstances, when our [[position]] is far more difficult
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• Revenge of Global Finance
  In a 2002 <i>[[Time]]</i> magazine interview, George Lucas explained the perso ...hrough the very way we, the 'good guys,' fight the [[enemy]] out there. (In today’s '[[war on terror]],' the [[real]] [[danger]] is what this [[war]]
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• Liberation Hurts
  appeared originally in <i>electronic book review</i><br><br> ...[[taboo]] in [[public]] [[discourse]], at least in the [[United States]]? In fact, aren't we witnessing a resurgence of [[fundamentalism]]? Under the [[
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• Why We All Love to Hate Heider
  ...ror from the entire spectrum of the 'legitimate' democratic political bloc in the Western world. From the social democratic Third Way to the Christian co ...governmental office), furnish the proof of the benevolence of the official system. Their existence displaces the focus of political struggle - whose true obj
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• The Matrix, or, the Two Sides of Perversion
  ...- namely, to an idiot. A man in the late 20ies at my right was so immersed in the film that he all the time disturbed other spectators with loud exclamat ...ing our inner life itself, using us as the source of energy; New Agers see in the source of speculations on how our world is just a mirage generated by a
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• Against The Double Blackmail
  ...e overall [[idea]] is that Serbia, the island of peace, the only [[place]] in ex-[[Yugoslavia]] that was not touched by the war raging all around it, is ...that it has no ground under its feet... From Milosevic's seizure of power in Serbia onwards, the only actual [[chance]] for Yugoslavia to survive was to
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• Psychoanalysis and Post-Marxism
  ...sis functioned as an ambiguous (necessary but dangerous) pharmakon invoked in [[order]] to [[supplement]] the inherent insufficiency of the [[Marxist]] t ...l use of psychoanalysis has always wound up in a justification of failure, in an explanation of why things had to go wrong.
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• The Big Other Doesn't Exist
  ...[myth]] with the [[mythical]] [[narrative]] of the "primordial [[father]]" in [[Totem]] and [[Taboo]] (T&T)? The lesson of this second myth is the exact ...at least let him know his wish between the lines...) is thus well-founded: in this necessity of the Betrayal of the Great Man, which can only assure his
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• Reflections of Media, Politics and Cinema
  ...u have been to Japan. What's your opinion on the technological [[culture]] in this country? ...he first one. We [[know]] that Eisenschtein for his montage of attractions used Japanese ideograms.
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• It Doesn't Have to Be a Jew
  ...[[meaning]] to the actual [[signifiers]]. What [[speech]] act is involved in this context? </i><br><br> ...values. "Everybody might get rich, including you." Let's take Thatcherism in Great [[Britain]]: what is the Thatcherist [[dream]]? It is that by hard wo
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• Civil Society, Fanaticism, and Digital Reality
  </p><p><i><b>Editors' Note: Slavoj</b> [[Zizek]], a leading [[intellectual]] in the new presidency of the republic of Slovenia, then part of [[Yugoslavia]], in 1990.</i>
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• From "Passionate Attachments" to Dis-identification
  ...Butler]], The Psychic Life of Power (Stanford: Stanford UP, 1997). Numbers in parentheses refer to the pages of this book.</ref> ...is not simply the [[biological]] body, but is that which is already caught in some kind of pre-[[subjective]] [[psychic apparatus]].</ref> Butler, of cou
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• Have Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri Rewritten the Communist Manifesto for the XXI Century?
  ...the anatomy of man provides the key for the anatomy of the monkey-that is, in [[order]] to deploy the inherent, notional [[structure]] of a social [[form ...he guise of ecological catastrophes, poverty, [[Third]] [[World]] diseases in collapse of social life, mad cow disease.
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• Hysteria and Cyberspace
  ...onnected to the '[[virtual]] worlds' Zizek comes to the conclusion, that - in contrast to the popular, exoticising readings of the net - the predominant ...f cyberspace that was popularized for example via the [[idea]] of The Borg in Star Trek. The Borg seems to be something like a cybernetic insect [[state]
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• Anarchy
  ...[[discourses]], in [[order]] to rethink the anti-authoritarian [[project]] in non-[[utopian]] and non-essentialist [[terms]]. It concludes by calling for ...r, it is to examine the implications and relevance of Lacanian [[ideas]] - in particular, his theory of the [[four discourses]] - to radical political th
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• Illusion
  It is this last formulation that is embodied in the [[Freudian]] approach to illusion, defined as a belief primarily motiva To that extent the illusion has much in common with [[dreams]] and dreaming, where the [[philosophers]] of antiquit
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• Historicism
  # that local [[conditions]] and peculiarities influence the results in a decisive way ...losopher]] in [[Nineteenth Century | 19th-century]] [[Europe]], as well as in those of a [[philosopher]] he is said to have influenced heavily, [[Karl Ma
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• Correspondence with Jacques Lacan (1963 - 1969)
  ''This [[exchange]] of letters begins at a crucial [[moment]] in the [[life]] of [[Jacques Lacan]]: he had just been stricken from the [[lis </ref> which plunged him into great turmoil, evidence of which can be seen in his first letters.
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