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• It Doesn't Have to be a Jew
  Slavoj [[Zizek]], Interviewed by Josefina Ayerza. ...porary [[political]] [[discourse]], changed by events such as the altering of [[communist]] regular patterns, should be giving new [[meaning]] to the act
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• Femininity between Goodness and Act
  ...ilm]] which enables us to avoid the fatal misreading of Lacan's [[notion]] of feminine [[jouissance]]. ...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 effecti
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• In His Bold Gaze My Ruin is Writ Large
  ...cks out from the [[totality]] of [[Hitchcock]]'s oeuvre:<ref>Further proof of Hitchcock's personal commitment: he renounced his director's fee for The Wr ...His special attachment to it is attested by the exceptional [[character]] of his cameo-[[appearance]] in the prologue; Hitchcock addresses the viewers d
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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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• Ethnic Dance Macabre
  ...ints of capitalism. What is effectively at stake in the [[present]] crisis of post-socialist states is the [[struggle]] for one's [[place]]: who will be ...rrent [[ideological]] designation for the capitalist "inside") in the face of oriental barbarism.
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• The Cyberspace Real
  ...re we to detect in cyberspace the contours of the [[other]] two dimensions of the [[Lacanian]] [[triad]] ISR, [[the Symbolic]] and [[the Real]]? ...les" precisely the effort to establish clearly the contours of a new space of symbolic fictions in which we fully participate in the mode [[disavowal]],
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• Multiculturalism, or, the Cultural Logic of Multinational Capitalism
  ...in its aseptized, benign form, which forecloses the dimension of the Real of the Other's jouissance. [[Category:Articles by Slavoj Žižek]]
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• From Joyce-the-Symptom to the Symptom of Power
  ...ts our reading with a [[surplus]]-enjoyment which is one of the trademarks of [[true]] modernism. ...[[notion]] of marriage does not involve precisely the "pathological" fact of liking a [[particular]] person for no particular [[rational]] [[reason]].
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• Desire:Drive = Truth:Knowledge
  ...upposition, like the second [[stage]] (I am being beaten by my [[father]]) of the [[child]]'s fantasy "A child is being beaten" which, as [[Freud]] empha ...ed, it has never succeeded in becoming [[conscious]]. It is a construction of analysis, but it is no less a [[necessity]] on that account.<ref> [[Sigmund
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• Psychoanalysis in Post-Marxism: The Case of Alain Badiou
  ...harmakon invoked in [[order]] to [[supplement]] the inherent insufficiency of the [[Marxist]] theoretic edifice. ...lysis has always wound up in a justification of failure, in an explanation of why things had to go wrong.
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• The Lesbian Session
  ...eological]] procedure is not to be underestimated: Rand fits into the line of over-conformist authors who undermine the ruling ideological edifice by the ...ringing which enabled her to formulate directly the [[fantasmatic]] kernel of American [[capitalist]] [[ideology]].
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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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• When the Party Commits Suicide
  ...re the impact of The Road to Terror, one should start with the [[paradox]] of the revolutionary sacrifice.</p> ...se." In the same way, while most of the political regimes have a dark side of obscene secret [[rituals]] and apparatuses, the Khmer Rouge regime had noth
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• Surplus-Enjoyment Between the Sublime and the Trash
  ...he mysterious and elusive X we are all after in our compulsive consumption of merchandise. ...VER effectively IT, precisely insofar as every satisfaction opens up a gap of "I [[want]] MORE!"
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• Welcome to the Desert of the Real-3
  ...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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• Run, Isolde, Run
  ...t we can really grasp the narrative [[logic]] of Dickens's great novels or of Madame Bovary. ...ropriate objective correlative, so that, again, it is only with the advent of cyberspace hypertext that we can effectively grasp what Altman and Kieslows
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• Matinee Idols: Joan Bennett
  ...involved with the wretched [[James]] Mason), confirmed not only the allure of her mature beauty but also the unique way her appeal remains the same wheth ...plus she was very short-sighted, unable to discern more than the contours of the [[people]] around her without glasses or lenses, so maybe even an ugly
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• Have Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri Rewritten the Communist Manifesto For the Twenty-First Century
  ...onkey-that is, in [[order]] to deploy the inherent, notional [[structure]] of a social [[formation]], one must start with its most developed form. ...ecological catastrophes, poverty, [[Third]] [[World]] diseases in collapse of social life, mad cow disease.
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• The Leninist Freedom
  ...a polemic against the Menshevik and Socialist-Revolutionaries’ critique of Bolshevik [[power]] in 1922: ..., is in itself a proof of Socialism’s utter failure, i.e. of the failure of the attempt to legitimize Socialist regimes — the term “Really Existing
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• Il n'y a pas de rapport religieux
  ...] of Christ, let us start with Gilles [[Deleuze]]'s exemplary [[analysis]] of Chaplin's late [[films]]: ...g]]," that [[sign]] of age, that small difference of triteness, on account of which the funny clown's [[number]] changes into a tedious [[spectacle]]?<re
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