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• From 'Passionate Attachments' to Dis-Identification
  I [[want]] to address the problem of [[identification]] by confronting the predominant deconstructionist doxa according to which the m ...nconscious "passionate attachments," attachments publicly non-acknowledged by the subject:
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• You May
  ...nd what to eat, how to relax and amuse oneself - have now been "colonised" by reflexivity, and are experienced as something to be learned and decided on. ...[[future]] of humanity offer one example of this. [[Another]] is provided by the [[scene]] in [[cyberspace]] movies in which the hero (or often the hero
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• The Stellar Parallax: The Traps of Ontological Difference
  ...the active subject working on the passive object): the subject is defined by a fundamental passivity, and it is the object from which movement comes, i. ...twist by means of which I myself am included into the picture constituted by me - it is this reflexive short-circuit, this necessary REDOUBLING of mysel
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• Hegel - Chesterton: German Idealism and Christianity
  by [[Slavoj Žižek]] ...ch is an "abstract [[negation]]" of polytheism and, as such, still haunted by it (Jehovah - plural; do not celebrate [[other]] gods IN FRONT OF ME; etc.)
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• A Glance into the Archives of Islam
  ...the [[true]] union of the East and the West – the point made exemplarily by Claude Levi-[[Strauss]]: ..../<BR><BR>The West should [[return]] to the sources of its torn condition: by way of interposing itself between [[Buddhism]] and Christianity, Islam isla
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• The Obscenity of Human Rights: Violence as Symptom
  ...]'s [[distinction]] between Ought and Must, an authentic [[revolution]] is by definition performed as a Must - it is not something we "ought to do" as an ...e]] main versions of theorizing these catastrophes: (1) the one epitomized by the name of [[Habermas]]: [[Enlightenment]] is in itself a positive emancip
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• With or Without Passion
  ...elief in the ultimate goodness of man in spite of the horrors accomplished by men against [[Jews]] in [[World]] War II: what renders such an assertion of ...which the [[ideological]] belief is transposed onto the Other is disturbed by the violent return of the immediate belief - they "really believe it." The
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• Move the Underground!
  ...how one should read the famous "inner voice <i>linnere Stimmel</i>" added by Schumann (in the written score) as a [[third]] line between the two piano l ...up every night, etc.; however, this explicit [[homophobia]] is accompanied by an excessive set of implicit web of [[homosexual]] innuendos, inner [[jokes
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• Over the Rainbow Coalition!
  ...cable: are they not fully justified in their worry that the [[film]], made by a fanatic [[Catholic]] traditionalist with occasional anti-Semitic outburst .... A glimpse into the Pope's spontaneous reaction was thus quickly replaced by the "official" neutral stance, corrected in [[order]] not to hurt anyone. T
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• Homo Sacer as the Object of the Discourse of the University
  ...g premise is sceptic-[[conservative]] - Lacan's diagnosis is best captured by his famous retort to the student revolutionaries: "As [[hysterics]], you [[ ...y measures (cutting [[welfare]] expenses, etc.) as a [[necessity]] imposed by his neutral expertise devoid of any [[ideological]] biases: what he conceal
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• Too Much Democracy?
  "Democracy" is not merely the "power of, by, and for the people," it is not enough just to claim that, in democracy, th ...e the suspension of democracy: what if the formally free elections are won by an anti-democratic party whose platform promises the abolition of formal de
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• Smashing the Neighbor's Face
  ...rs." This is how Levinas defines the "reconciliatory sacrifice": a gesture by means of which the Same as the hostage take the place of (replaces) the Oth ...being and its immanent powers: do I have (the right) to be? Is it not that by insisting in being, I deprive others of their place, I ultimately kill them
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• Reloaded Revolutions
  ...the big other pulls the strings, the subject doesn't speak, he "is spoken" by the symbolic structure. The paradox, the "infinite judgment" of <i>The Matr ...not only of their true situation, but also of the threat posed in reality by the evil agent who intends to kill them shortly. It is as if the subjects o
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• Biopolitics: Between Terri Schiavo and Guantanamo
  ...ad, those who are in a way already dead (their [[right]] to live forfeited by being legitimate targets of murderous bombings), so that they are now cases ...as a legal [[power]], their [[acts]] are no longer covered and constrained by the law - they operate in an empty space that is still within the [[domain]
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• Passion In The Era of Decaffeinated Belief
  ...mpeccable: are they not fully justified in their worry that the film, made by a fanatic Catholic traditionalist with occasional anti-Semitic outbursts, m .... A glimpse into the Pope's spontaneous reaction was thus quickly replaced by the "official" neutral stance, corrected in order not to hurt anyone. This
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• The Matrix: The Truth of the Exaggerations
  ...the source of speculations on how our [[world]] is just a mirage generated by a [[global]] [[Mind]] embodied in the World Wide Web... ...at we [[experience]] as reality is an artificial virtual reality generated by the "Matrix," the mega-computer directly attached to all our minds), but th
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• When Straight Means Weird and Psychosis is Normal
  ...f gigantic cranes was staged as an art performance - doubtlessly perceived by a lot of uninformed bypassers as part of an intense construction [[activity ...]], Tom gets more and more fascinated not only by Dickie himself, but also by the polished, easy-going, socially acceptable upper-[[class]] [[life]] that
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• Iraq's False Promises
  ...est strivings only he expresses. The catch is, those who oppose the leader by definition not only oppose him, but they also oppose the deepest and nobles ..., for example, at the U.S. decision to impose steel tariffs, ruled illegal by the World Trade Organization and certainly in violation of its own sacrosan
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• The Iraqi Borrowed Kettle
  ...ons inspectors were asking for - more time - and were scathingly dismissed by the US.<br><br> ...he thirty-one page paper entitled "The National Security Strategy," issued by the White House on September 20, 2002)? Its main points are: American milit
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• What Rumsfeld Doesn't Know That He Knows About Abu Ghraib
  by [[Slavoj Žižek]] In his reaction to the photos showing Iraqi prisoners tortured and humiliated by U.S. soldiers, President George W. [[Bush]], as expected, emphasized how th
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