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• Democracy
  ...l”, “regular” reproduction, the [[moment]] of [[dissolution]] of the socio-symbolic bond, the moment of eruption of the [[Real, the (Lacan)|Real]]: elections.
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• Transgression
  ...chanisms of transgression. It is obvious that, given our [[need]] for an [[order]] in which [[ethics]] would have its proper [[place]], transgression should ...ve possibilities, even when these might [[affect]] an apparently immutable order, if necessary by organizing festivals at which [[people]] can shed their in
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• Slavoj Žižek's Third Way
  ...[symptom]], the [[place]] from where the hidden [[truth]] of the New World Order emerges". With regard to the terrorist attacks on the WTC, Zizek rejects th ...t with his analysis of how a [[subject]] is formed within the [[symbolic]] order by means of a certain "[[forced choice]]" as to whether to enter [[society]
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• Against the Populist Temptation
  ...ety of spectacle]]" is thus getting a new twist: [[image]]s are created in order to fill in the [[gap]] that separates the new artificial [[universe]] from ...the universality embodied in the element which sticks out of the existing Order, which, while [[internal]] to it, has no proper place within it (what [[Jac
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• Overview
  ...of surface appearances which are deceptive, is structured by the symbolic order. It also involves a linguistic dimension: whereas the signifier is the foun ...by means of repetition: "the death drive is only the mask of the symmbolic order." This register is determinant of subjectivity; for Lacan the symbolic is c
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• Guide to Slavoj Zizek
  ...ive [[harmony]] between the two, preserving the realm of the personal in [[order]] that we may exist at all and securing it upon the ground of the impersona ...efore we can construct a [[substitute]] for it in the form of the Symbolic Order. Žižek reads this vanishing mediator as a passage through madness and, by
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• Anti-Oedipus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia
  ...nd Guattari, was resonant in the context of a breakdown in the political [[order]] and the family. The disillusionments that followed are well known.
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• No Sex, Please, We're Post-Human!
  ...decides to replace itself with genetically modified asexual humanoids in [[order]] to avoid the deadlock of sexuality - these humanoids [[experience]] no pa ...clusion. Along the same lines, is it not that, once the socio-[[symbolic]] order is fully established, the very [[dimension]] which introduced the "transcen
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• Working
  ...]] to detach itself from the [[imaginary]] relation with the [[mother]] in order to enter the [[social world]]. ...], which is characterized by the [[absence]] of any pregiven [[natural]] [[order]].)
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• Badiou: Notes From an Ongoing Debate
  ...irruption functions as a break in time, as introducing a totally different order of [[temporality]] (the temporality of the “work of [[love]],” the fide ...nown that somebody (it is not yet known who this was) has defied Creon’s order and performed the funeral [[ritual]] on his [[body]]. It is THIS act which
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• Economics
  ...he “the ‘economy’ cannot be reduced to a sphere of the positive ‘[[order]] of being’, precisely insofar as it is always political, insofar as poli ...n fact, it is precisely the [[reification]] of the economy into a positive order of [[being]] (“a thing”) that redeems Žižek’s work from the simple
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• Introduction: Real
  ...reality'. The real is the unknown that [[exists]] at the [[limit]] of this socio-symbolic [[universe]] and is in constant tension with it. The real is also a very pa ...as focused on elaborating the role of the [[signifier]] and the [[symbolic order]]. In this period the real performed an important function within his [[sys
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• Robespierre or the "Divine Violence" of Terror
  ...s were quite right to point out that one can achieve the bourgeois law and order also without the terrorist excess, as was the case in Great Britain - altho ...sense of the agency of realistic compromises). Every legal order (or every order of explicit normativity) has to rely on a complex "reflexive" network of in
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• Mao Zedong: the Marxist Lord of Misrule
  ...e of Judas the traitor, replacing him!), Marx needed Lenin's "betrayal" in order to enact the first Marxist revolution: it is an inner necessity of the "ori ...77, p. 288.</ref> In contrast to the male ambition, a woman wants power in order to promote her own narrow family interests or, even worse, her personal cap
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• Censorship Today: Violence, or Ecology as a New Opium for the Masses
  ..., on account of its [[lacking]] a determinate [[place]] in the "private" [[order]] of social hierarchy, directly stands for [[universality]]: it is only the ...lways secondary, an attempt to negotiate a "habit" that would restore some order after catastrophic interruptions.
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• On Alain Badiou and Logiques des mondes
  ...ent - he merely adds a signifier which all of a sudden turns disorder into order, into "new harmony," as Rimbaud would have put it. Think about anti-Semitis ...d be asserted unconditionally, every Master-Signifier meant to impose some order on it should be "deconstructed," dispersed, "disseminated": "The modern apo
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• Leninism Today: Zionism and the Jewish Question
  ...ileged node: it grabbed all the links, i.e., we have to relate to him in [[order]] to [[communicate]] with other entities. The big structural question is, o
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• Cogito, Madness and Religion: Derrida, Foucault and then Lacan
  ...tined by their [[instincts]]. What this means is that, paradoxically, in [[order]] to be educated into freedom (qua moral [[autonomy]] and self-responsibili ..., Kant emphasized that the human animal [[needs]] disciplinary pressure in order to tame an [[uncanny]] "unruliness" which seems to be inherent to human nat
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• Radical Evil as a Freudian Category
  ...itiatic [[rituals]] of [[torture]] and humiliation one has to undergo in [[order]] to be accepted into a closed [[community]]. Do we not see similar photos ...are their last recourse, then somebody else has to inherit their rights in order to enact them in their place. This is what is called the "right to humanita
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• The Liberal Utopia I: Against the Politics of Jouissance
  ...its constitutive lack, while drive circulates around a hole, a gap in the order of being. In other words, the circular movement of drive obeys the weird lo
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