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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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• With or Without Passion
  ...t politely ignored it and staged the [[belief]] in his fidelity... In one of the [[Marx]] brothers' [[films]], [[Groucho Marx]], when caught in a lie, a ...words of the Institution of law) than in the direct reality of the person of judge - if one limits oneself to what one sees, one simply misses the point
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• Move the Underground!
  ..., positive, notes in such a way that one would be able to discern the echo of the accompanying non-played "silent" virtual notes or their absence. ...phobia should therefore not focus primarily on the explicit [[repression]] of homosexuality; it should rather "move the underground," disturb the implici
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• Over the Rainbow Coalition!
  ...clear that we are not covert racists attacking only the [[fundamentalism]] of [[other]] (Muslim) cultures? ...prophet, nonetheless thinks that Jews have a divine [[right]] to the land of [[Israel]]?)
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• Homo Sacer as the Object of the Discourse of the University
  ..., but, rather, the new masters who are no longer ready to assume the title of the Master - "slave" is Nietzsche's term for a fake master. — How, then, ...pparatuses to ideological beliefs) which sustain the "neutral" functioning of the market [[mechanism]].
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• Too Much Democracy?
  ...ome circumstances, at least, put in question the legitimacy of the outcome of a formal democratic procedure? ...le was not yet "mature" enough to be allowed democracy, and that some kind of enlightened despotism whose aim will be to educate the majority into proper
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• Smashing the Neighbor's Face
  ...or. /.../ deceit and veracity already presuppose the absolute authenticity of the face."<ref>[[Levinas]], Emmanuel, ''[[Totality]] and Infinity'', The [[ ...s gesture par excellence? Was He not the hostage who took the place of all of us and as such exemplarily [[human]] ("ecce homo")?
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• Reloaded Revolutions
  ...e ballet-like quality of fights with slow motions and defiance of the laws of ordinary physical reality.<br><br> ...y formal digital universe which generates the false "wealth of experience" of humans caught in the Matrix.)<br><br>
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• Biopolitics: Between Terri Schiavo and Guantanamo
  ...her]] Asian countries. The CIA has not even acknowledged the [[existence]] of these "black sites" with "[[ghost]] prisoners": to do so could open the U.S ...mo sacer]]</i>, the one who can be killed with impunity since, in the eyes of the law, his [[life]] no longer counts.
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• Passion In The Era of Decaffeinated Belief
  ...it clear that we are not covert racists attacking only the fundamentalism of <i>other</i> (Muslim) cultures? ...Jews are collectively not to be blamed for the Crucifixion... The problem of such a stance is that, in this way, the aggressive religious passion is mer
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• The Matrix: The Truth of the Exaggerations
  ...itself, using us as the source of [[energy]]; New Agers see in the source of speculations on how our [[world]] is just a mirage generated by a [[global] ...reality, but first the horrible realization of this enclosure, where each of us is effectively just a foetus-like organism, immersed in the pre-natal fl
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