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• Hooray for Bush!
  ...everyone and the winner takes all, even if his majority is merely a couple of hundred votes among millions. ...]] to live up to its [[notion]] bears [[witness]] to the inherent weakness of the notion. Why should the same not hold for democracy? Isn't it all too si
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• Between Two Deaths
  ...ng - they don't even control themselves!' I was reminded of that when news of the weird goings-on in the [[Abu Ghraib]] prison broke a few weeks ago. * [[Between Two Deaths]]. ''[[London]] Review of Books'. Volume 26. [[Number]] 1.. June 3, 2004. <http://www.lrb.co.uk/v26/n
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• Henning Mankell, the Artist of the Parallax View
  ...o, is the exemplary [[case]] of the fate of the detective novel in our era of [[global]] [[capitalism]].<br> ...tings clearly had the status of eccentric exceptions, this status was part of their appeal which relied on the distance towards the paradigmatic location
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• Over the Rainbow
  ...need]] for [[individual]] [[morality]] that makes each of us the architect of our own salvation. [[Category:Articles by Slavoj Žižek]]
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• Not a Desire to Have Him, But to Be Like Him
  ''Beautiful Shadow: A [[Life]] of [[Patricia Highsmith]] by Andrew Wilson · Bloomsbury, 534 pp, £25.00'' ...er home in 'old [[Europe]]'. As Frank Rich put it, she 'made a life's work of her ostracisation from the American mainstream and her own subsequent [[sel
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• Passion in the Era of Decaffeinated Belief
  ...it clear that we are not covert racists attacking only the fundamentalism of other (Muslim) cultures? ...Jews are collectively not to be blamed for the Crucifixion... The problem of such a stance is that, in this way, the aggressive religious passion is mer
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• Are We Allowed To Enjoy Daphnée du Maurier?
  overheard a young man asking one of the staff: 'I just finished <i>Mrs de Winter</i>. Is it [[true]] illiteracy of the younger generation-how can anyone not [[know]] [[about]] <i>Rebecca</i>
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• Paranoid Reflections
  ...g the [[fear]] of impending catastrophe, in [[order]] to reap the benefits of the [[universal]] relief when it fails to be realised. * [[Paranoid Reflections]]. ''[[London]] Review of Books''. VOlume 25. [[Number]] 7. April 3, 2003. <http://www.lrb.co.uk/v25/
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• Liberation Hurts
  [[University]] of Illinois at Chicago, September 29, 2003<br> An Interview with Slavoj [[Zizek]]<br>
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• The State of Emergency Called Love
  ...of the world, carefully weighing all the gods of inevitable recurrence and of unalterable [[power]]. They will not find [[another]] god who has himself b ...not only through agony, but through [[doubt]]."4 In the standard [[form]] of [[atheism]], God dies for men who stop believing in Him; in Christianity, G
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• Hitchcock's Organs Without Bodies
  ...e radio which announces that Elster was arrested abroad for the [[murder]] of his wife? ...catches what [[Lacan]] called [[gaze]] as [[objet]] [[petit a]], the part of our image which eludes the mirror-like symmetrical [[relationship]]. When w
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• The Iraqui MacGuffin
  ...ngerous... Now that none were found, we reached the last line of the story of MacGuffin: "'Well,' said President [[Bush]] in September 2003, 'then that's ...e BBC website in September 2003: "We know he had weapons, we sold him some of them." This is the direction a serious investigation should have taken...
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• Homo Sacer as the Object of the University Discourse
  ..., but, rather, the new masters who are no longer ready to assume the title of the Master - "slave" is Nietzsche's term for a fake master. — How, then, ...pparatuses to ideological beliefs) which sustain the "neutral" functioning of the market [[mechanism]].<br><br>
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• The Desert and the Real
  ...s, in its very hyper-[[reality]], in a way IRREAL, substanceless, deprived of the [[material]] inertia. ...aseptic life in a secluded area longs for the experience of the real world of material decay.
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• The Only Good Neighbour is a Dead Neighbour!
  ...erhaps, the [[time]] has come to cast a reflexive glance on the main types of the Stalingrad narratives. [[Category:Articles by Slavoj Žižek]]
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• The One Measure of True Love is "You Can Insult the Other"
  ...le, a majority. In this [[sense]], we do not have an actual [[experience]] of freedom today. Our freedoms are increasingly reduced to the freedom to choo Question: Has 11 September thrown new light on your diagnosis of what is happening to the [[world]]?
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• Can Lenin Tell Us about Freedom Today
  ...en on Wall Street. What these both Marxes have in common is the [[denial]] of politics proper; the reference to Lenin enables us to avoid these two pitfa ...tage]] [[Saussure]]), Lenin violently displaces Marx, tears his theory out of its original context, planting it in [[another]] historical [[moment]], and
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• Why We All Love to Hate Heider
  ...ed this demonstrative reaction as evidence that the anti-fascist consensus of post-war European democracy holds firm. But are things really so unequivoca ...ed of its minimal subversive sting, extinguishing even the faintest memory of anti-capitalism and class struggle.<br><br>
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• Desert of the Real
  ...free trade." Wherefore this pact between Fulani, the far-[[left]] espouser of [[Marxist]]-Leninist politics, and Buchanan, a Reaganite cold warrior and t ...[[working class]]." But what is crucial in this tradition is the equation of labor with crime, the [[idea]] that labor, hard work, is originally an inde
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• Femininity Between Goodness And Act
  ...ilm]] which enables us to avoid the fatal misreading of Lacan's [[notion]] of feminine <i>[[jouissance]]</i>.</tt></font><p> ...saying that in [[exchange]] for his return she would put up with any trial of her [[faith]]. Soon afterwards, as if in answer to her prayers, Jan effect
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