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• Are We in a War
  ...life by stern [[discipline]] and [[punishment]]. What if the [[true]] aim of the [[present]] Israeli intrusion into Palestinian territory is not to prev ...ns, Afghans), as well as to the Sans Papiers in France and the inhabitants of the favelas in [[Brazil]] or the African American ghettoes in the US.
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• Give Iranian Nukes a Chance
  ==''In a Mad World, the Logic of MAD Still Works''== But are nuclear arms in the hands of Iran's rulers really a threat to international peace and security? To answ
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• Thanks, But We'll Do It Ourselves
  ...y will [[return]] to the seclusion of their community. Indeed, 90 percent of the children do exactly that. ...them to have a truly free choice, they would have to be properly informed of and educated about all their options. However, the only way to do this wou
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• Learning To Love Leni Riefenstahl
  ...arted shooting documentaries [[about]] the strange life in the dark depths of the sea.<br><br> ...oes this not apply also to her [[personality]]? It seems that the [[fear]] of those who are fascinated by Leni is no longer “When will she die?” but
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• The Not-So-Quiet American
  ...inging [[West]]ern [[democracy]] to [[Iraq]],” but of simply getting rid of the [[nightmare]] called Saddam. To this majority, the caution expressed b ...erica then responds like a sullen [[child]] in reaction to the ingratitude of those it selflessly helped.
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• Somewhere Over the Rainbow
  ...]], the same [[thing]] is going on today in Kansas - and this is the topic of Thomas Frank's new outstanding book. ...]], it is ''What's the Matter with Kansas? How Conservatives Won the Heart of America'' by Thomas Frank.
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• On Divine Self-Limitation and Revolutionary Love
  ...Žižek: 'On Divine Self-Limitation and Revolutionary Love]]". ''Journal of Philosophy and Scripture''. Volume 1, Issue 2. Spring 2004. Joshua Delpec ...;&nbsp; Or are the particularities of Christianity somehow, of the essence of this gesture?<br><br>
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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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• 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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• Psychoanalysis and Post-Marxism
  The [[Case]] of [[Alain]] [[Badiou]] ...harmakon invoked in [[order]] to [[supplement]] the inherent insufficiency of the [[Marxist]] theoretic edifice.
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• It Doesn't Have to Be a Jew
  ...porary [[political]] [[discourse]], changed by events such as the altering of [[communist]] regular patterns, should be giving new [[meaning]] to the ac ...hat this is an [[illusion]], only a few of us might get rich; the majority of us won't get rich. But they missed the point, because the [[identification]
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• The Spectre Is Still Roaming Around
  ...? Isn't [[The Communist Manifesto]], at best, an exaggerated extrapolation of certain tendencies discernible in the 19th century? ...is situation, is not the description in The Manifesto of the social impact of the [[bourgeoisie]] more actual than ever? -
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• Hidden Prohibitions And The Pleasure Principle
  ...nevertheless how pure desire culminates in the sacrifice of the [[object]] of [[love]]. ...that is not obliged to have recourse to a [[Master signifier]], to a point of order, which is performative.1
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• Are We in a War? Do We Have an Enemy?
  ...ns, Afghans), as well as to the Sans Papiers in France and the inhabitants of the favelas in [[Brazil]] or the African American ghettoes in the US. ...ose in the [[know]] was blind fate to them. Those who did have a [[sense]] of the risks, the top managers, also had a [[chance]] to intervene in the [[si
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• Hysteria and Cyberspace
  ...exoticising readings of the net - the predominant [[psychic]] [[economy]] of electronic networks is a [[hysterical]] one. ...o correspond with the general trend towards a more or less predominant use of [[conspiracy theories]] to [[interpret]] the modern [[world]]...
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• Democracy
  ...ch [[guarantee]] that [[antagonisms]] are fully absorbed into the “rules of the [[game]].”’’’ ...not, in some circumstances, put in question the legitimacy of the outcome of a formal democratic procedure?’’’<ref>[[How Much Democracy Is Too Muc
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• Anarchy
  ...that seeks to avoid the [[discourse]] of the Master through an [[ethics]] of [[contingency]], and discusses the contemporary anti-[[globalization]] move ...the pitfalls of utopian [[fantasy]]; and the contingency and indeterminacy of the political field.
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• Illusion
  ...lludere) by the [[nature]] of evidence or the [[seductive]] [[appearance]] of something that deceives. ...e senses), or even an [[ontological]] [[structure]] (the Platonic [[myth]] of the cave).
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• Enjoy your Zizek
  An excitable Slovenian [[philosopher]] examines the [[obscene]] practices of everyday [[life]]<br> ...Slovenian philosopher [[Slavoj Zizek]], who is in town to deliver a series of lectures at the British [[Film]] Institute.<br>
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• Psychoanalysis and the Post-Political
  of obscurantism, and may not even have believed very much of what he As if to condense the aura of contrariness and enigma he cultivated in
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