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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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• Some Politically Incorrect Reflections on Violence in France
  ...[[freedom]] of [[choice]], when the only choice is the one between playing by the rules and ([[self]]-)destructive violence, a violence which is almost e ...action is worse: they are BOTH worse, inclusive of the warning, formulated by both sides, about the real danger of these outbursts residing in the easily
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• The Antinomies of Tolerant Reason: A Blood-Dimmed Tide is Loosed
  The excitation and the sense of urgency caused by the daily reports on violent demonstrations against the perpetrators of Muh ...hat distance is included into the very social texture: even if I live side by side with others, the normal state is to ignore them. I am allowed not to g
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• Nobody Has to Be Vile
  ...t, moved to Davos. The tone of the Davos meetings is now predominantly set by the group of entrepreneurs who ironically refer to themselves as ‘[[liber ...s – teaches us that private enterprise is by far the most effective way. By regulating their business, taxing them excessively, the state is underminin
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• The Two Totalitarianisms
  ...here was no need to prove they were [[guilty]], since they were [[guilty]] by virtue of being [[Jews]]. ...s <em>To Be or Not to Be</em>, [[Hitler]] responds to the [[Nazi]] salute by raising his hand and saying: ‘Heil myself!’ This is pure [[humour]] be
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• Bring Me My Philips Mental Jacket
  ...Heidegger perceived as the '[[danger]]' inherent in modern [[technology]]. By reducing a human being to a natural object whose properties can be altered, The prospect of biogenetic [[intervention]] opened up by increasing access to the human genome effectively emancipates humankind fro
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• Knee-Deep
  ...d]]: Why a Crisis of the West Reveals the Opportunity of Our [[Time]]</i> by [[Timothy Garton Ash]] ...) read like a [[list]] of desiderata: the developed countries should abide by the rules of fair competition they want to impose on the underdeveloped one
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• Attempts to Escape the Logic of Capitalism
  <i>Vaclav [[Havel]]: A [[Political]] [[Tragedy]] in Six [[Acts]]</i> by John Keane · Bloomsbury, 532 pp, £25.00 ...hentic ethical stance has become a moralising idiom cynically appropriated by the knaves of capitalism. His heroic insistence on doing the impossible (op
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• Are We in a War
  ...ly, as [[evil]] [[children]] who have to be brought back to an honest life by stern [[discipline]] and [[punishment]]. What if the [[true]] aim of the [[ ...apiers'. Perhaps the [[category]] of [[homo sacer]], brought back into use by Giorgio [[Agamben]] in Homo Sacer: Sovereign [[Power]] and [[Bare life|Bare
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• Parallax View
  ...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. ...the focus of my [[libido|libidinal investment]], and this shift is caused by some unfathomable x, a ''je ne sais quoi'' in the object which cannot ever
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• Slavoj Zizek - Articles
  #redirect [[Articles by Slavoj Žižek]]
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