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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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• Seize the Day: Lenin's Legacy
  ...[[birth]] to [[Leninism]]. Consider [[Lenin]]'s shock when, in the autumn of 1914, every European [[social]] democratic party except the Serbs' followed ...inism (1996), "the [[vocabulary]] and grammar of the Western [[tradition]] of [[politics]] was abruptly dispensed with."
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• Homo Sacer in Afghanistan
  ...th [[concrete]] sensible features which make it into an appropriate target of [[hatred]] and struggle. [[Category:Articles by Slavoj Žižek]]
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• Gerhard Schroeder's Minority Report and Its Consequences
  ...ommunists, [[lacks]] even the elementary [[sense]] of survival and respect of his own [[people]], America has the [[right]] to preemptive strikes, i.e., ...u are free to agree with, but not free to disagree — the old [[paradox]] of the [[forced]] [[choice]] is reproduced here, the [[freedom]] to make a cho
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• The Iraq War: Where is The True Danger
  ...even if successful, the attack on Iraq will give a big boost to a new wave of the anti-American [[terrorism]]; (4) Saddam is a murderer and torturer, his ...here of "bringing [[Western democracy]] to Iraq," but just of getting rid of the [[nightmare]] called Saddam. To this majority, the caution expressed by
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• From 'Passionate Attachments' to Dis-Identification
  ...r (Stanford: Stanford UP, 1997). Numbers in parentheses refer to the pages of this book.</ref> ...ply and directly [[identified]] as the [[unconscious]]; the existing order of Power is also supported by unconscious "passionate attachments," attachment
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• You May
  ...tation to ethnic belonging, are more and more often experienced as matters of [[choice]]. Things which once seemed [[self]]-evident - how to feed and edu ...to be cracked is of course much the same as believing in the [[existence]] of some Big Other: in every [[case]] what is wanted is an [[agent]] who will g
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• The Stellar Parallax: The Traps of Ontological Difference
  ...ox is thus that the roles are reversed (with regard to the standard notion of the active subject working on the passive object): the subject is defined b ...m means that the reality I see is never "whole" - not because a large part of it eludes me, but because it contains a stain, a blind spot, which signals
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• Hegel - Chesterton: German Idealism and Christianity
  by [[Slavoj Žižek]] ...world, the religion of sublimity."<ref>[[G.W.F. Hegel]], <i>[[Philosophy]] of [[Mind]]</i>, Oxford: Clarendon Press 1971, p. 44.</ref>
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• A Glance into the Archives of Islam
  <b>The Antinomies of Tolerant [[Reason]]</b><BR> ...ent, the location of Islam makes it a fatal obstacle to the [[true]] union of the East and the West – the point made exemplarily by Claude Levi-[[Strau
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• The Obscenity of Human Rights: Violence as Symptom
  ...ral obligation]], into something we ought to do while we fight the inertia of the [[capitalist]] [[present]]. ...dangers, and there is no ultimate [[teleology|teleological]] [[guarantee]] of the outcome, the battle is open, undecided.
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