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• The Empty Wheelbarrow
  ...im their innocence, to have any time [[left]] to [[defend]] the [[guilty]] who proclaim their [[guilt]]." But [[hysterical]] over-reaction against"free-fl ...also unknown unknowns. There are things we don't know we don't know." What he forgot to add was the crucial fourth term: the "unknown knowns", things we
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• A Cup of Decaf Reality
  ...interactive game is "just a game," he can "show his true self," do things he would never have done in real life interactions - in the guise of a [[ficti ...]] to make the narrative ridiculous a kind of negative gesture of respect: yes, we do show everything, but precisely for that [[reason]] we [[want]] to ma
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• On Divine Self-Limitation and Revolutionary Love
  ...y is that the supreme example of the seminal structure of truth event that he tries to articulate, and it doesn't count as a truth-event.<br> ...know the early Heidegger started with the same reference, St. Paul.&nbsp; He (Heidegger) I think used the term <i>formales anzeigen,</i>, formal indicat
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• Liberation Hurts
  ...hat we need to [[defend]] [[plurality]] and different lifestyles, but look who is taking! Your policies undermined the family, and you don't have any [[ri ...ie <i>Leap of Faith?</i> It's naïve, and I don't like Steve Martin in it, he's playing a stupid [[role]] politically, but it's a nice movie about a fake
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• The Iraqui MacGuffin
  ...t man says, 'But there are no leopards in the Scottish highlands.' 'Well,' says the second, 'then that's not a MacGuffin, is it?'" ...by "Rachel from Scotlandí on the BBC website in September 2003: "We know he had weapons, we sold him some of them." This is the direction a serious inv
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• The One Measure of True Love is "You Can Insult the Other"
  ...t World War. We all [[remember]] the war reports by Ernst J?nger, in which he praises this eye-to-eye combat experience as the authentic one. Or at the l ...he USA. There are two million of [[them]], mostly [[women]], but also men, who cut themselves with razors. Why? It has nothing to do with [[masochism]] or
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• Can Lenin Tell Us about Freedom Today
  ...dern]] sophists, of the Messianic promise; on the [[other]] hand, the Marx who foretold the [[dynamic]] of today's [[globalization]] and is as such evoked ...ause Jungian theory functioned in itself as initiatic Wisdom; it was Lacan who succeeded where Jung failed.) So, in the same way [[St Paul]] and Lacan rei
  28 KB (4,521 words) - 19:45, 27 May 2019
• You May!
  "Rule Girls" are heterosexual [[women]] who follow precise rules as to how they let themselves be seduced (accept a dat ...ence]] of some Big Other: in every [[case]] what is wanted is an [[agent]] who will give [[structure]] to our chaotic social lives.<br>
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• The Matrix, or, the Two Sides of Perversion
  ...diot. 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 exclamations, like "My Go ...Carrey playing the small town clerk who gradually discovers the truth that he is the hero of a 24-hours permanent TV show: his hometown is constructed on
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• From Proto-Reality to the Act
  choice, he will never make a beginning at all. <a name="3"></a><a href="#3x">3</a> </f ...ng mediator' is provided by the [[Hegelian]] notion of the historical hero who resolves the deadlock of the passage from
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• Psychoanalysis and Post-Marxism
  ...nist dismissal of the alleged Marxist "[[essentialism]]"; on the contrary, he is unique in radically rejecting the deconstructionist doxa as a new [[form ...tuation is the [[Church]]; and its "subject" is the [[corps]] of believers who intervene in their situation on behalf of the Truth-Event, searching for th
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• The Big Other Doesn't Exist
  ...e]] which stands for the primordial jouisseur: we cannot [[enjoy]] because HE amasses all [[enjoyment]]... ...the leader in the immediacy of his [[personality]] and the symbolic place he occupies, a gap on account of which the father qua effective person is utte
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• It Doesn't Have to Be a Jew
  ...the discourse gave you the opportunity to [[identify]] yourself as the one who might get rich next. Wealth was [[right]] around the corner...maybe. <br><b SZ: Yes, that was enough; it was even proven by [[sociology]] polls. [[People]] act
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• Hidden Prohibitions And The Pleasure Principle
  ...[[performative]]." I think this was the ultimate Spinozist [[dream]], what he called "love of God'' or "perfect [[rational]] knowledge," which is a kind ...It is like with tobacco, the Spinozist doesn't say, "Don't smoke," he/she says "Smoke, but... ." You have this warning, "Nicotine can be dangerous to your
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• Can Lenin Tell Us about Freedom Today?
  ...dern]] sophists, of the Messianic promise; on the [[other]] hand, the Marx who foretold the [[dynamic]] of today's [[globalization]] and is as such evoked ...ause Jungian theory functioned in itself as initiatic Wisdom; it was Lacan who succeeded where Jung failed.) So, in the same way [[St Paul]] and Lacan rei
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• Have Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri Rewritten the Communist Manifesto for the XXI Century?
  ...self as serving real needs of real people? The originality of Marx is that he played on both cards simultaneously: the origin of capitalist crises is the ...tual capitalist not function in a homologous way: his "net value" at zero, he directly operates just with the surplus borrowing from the [[future]].
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• Hysteria and Cyberspace
  ...ficiency of the phantasmatic in the new [[media]] was published, currently he is [[writing]] a [[text]] dealing with [[cyberspace]]. After checking the a ...ed]] by North Koreans in the Korean War and brainwashed to become a killer who kills on [[order]], without being aware of it.
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• Correspondence with Jacques Lacan (1963 - 1969)
  ...tters begins at a crucial [[moment]] in the [[life]] of [[Jacques Lacan]]: he had just been stricken from the [[list]] of [[training]] [[analysts]] of th ...963]) an article,'' "[[Philosophie]] et [[sciences]] humaines,"'' in which he praised Lacan. The two men had not yet met—and that would not occur, in f
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• Never Mind the Bollocks
  ...ny utilitarian definition of what is [[good]] for you. Having described it he draws a mesmerising whirlwind of [[thought]] to its conclusion saying "we [ ...he's an "old Stalinist", which draws gleeful [[laughter]] from an audience who are mostly in their twenties.
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• I am a fighting atheist
  ...ould produce such a supple thinker read him now for the simple reason that he is Zizek.</div> ...superstar in the [[world]] of scholarly publishing. Most of the [[people]] who read its products can also write [[them]]. To stand out in a crowd this sma
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