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• In Defense of Lost Causes
  ...]] [[knowledge]], while the bloody [[terror]] of the [[Nazis]] in point of fact had been kept a [[secret]] from the [[German]] [[people]]." Marcuse was ful
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• Lettuce
  ...is a [[secret]] [[symbol]] for the lettuce. Failure to [[understand]] this fact has led to frequent misunderstandings of this lucid, if somewhat simplistic
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• Robespierre or the "Divine Violence" of Terror
  ...cognizing this dependence as a fact (and nothing more than this - a stupid fact of being), one nonetheless insists on the truth of its negation, the truth ...n if I "did not do anything against the revolution," this fear itself, the fact that it emerged in me, demonstrates that my subjective position is external
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• 'The Pervert's Guide to Cinema' - Slavoj Zizek interview
  ...bal]] itinerary, this is a perhaps surprising revelation. But, despite the fact that he appears in almost every [[frame]], 'The Pervert's Guide…' held a
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• Mao Zedong: the Marxist Lord of Misrule
  ...bears witness to the radical self-contradiction of the regime, i.e. to the fact that, at the origins of the regime, there was an "authentic" revolutionary ...ural Revolution miserably failed. It is difficult to miss the irony of the fact that Badiou, who adamantly opposes the notion of act as negative, locates t
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• Tarrying with the Negative: Kant, Hegel and the Critique of Ideology
  ...versalism, religious and ethnic fundamentalism--this work testifies to the fact that, far more radically than the postmodern sophists, Kant and Hegel are o
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• ‘Jacques Lacan: la psychanalyse 1 & 2’ by Benoît Jacquot
  ...televisual [[experience]] practiced by Lacan. A fair amount is made of the fact that Lacan was renowned for his powers of [[seduction]] and what effect thi
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• Jacques Lacan - Télévision (Video) - Lacan on the unconscious
  ...dy by obsessive [[thoughts]], how to behave, what to say, testifies to the fact that the only relation thought has to the soul-body is one of a differentia ...hat the object of this responsiblity which passes for "[[reality]]" is, in fact, a [[fantasy]], a "grimace of the [[real]]", which simply serves an [[insti
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• Imaginary (Compendium)
  ...unitary image (Gestalt) is fundamentally different. This is linked to the fact that man comes into the [[world]] in a structurally premature [[state]], wh
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• Quotes
  * The narration, in fact, doubles the drama with a commentary without which no mise en [[scene]] wou
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• Censorship Today: Violence, or Ecology as a New Opium for the Masses
  ...ts first form of presentation which was centered on property and State. In fact, what is imposed on us as a task, even as a [[philosophical]] obligation, i ...great losses and catastrophes accompanying every limited success - is the fact that 90 percent of the human genome is 'junk DNA' with no clear function no
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• On Alain Badiou and Logiques des mondes
  ...become public knowledge, while the bloody terror of the Nazis in point of fact had been kept a secret from the German people." [[On Alain Badiou and Logiq ...tic tone; it is Marx's enthusiasm for the dissolving power of Capital. The fact that Capital revealed itself to be the material power capable of disencumbe
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• Gorgias, Not Plato Was the Archi-Stalinist
  ...fication that cut across and overlaps with other classifications, like the fact that there are man and [[women]] which also cuts across all ethnic, [[relig
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• Shostakovich in Casablanca
  ...victorious finales are meant to render the victories pyrrhic, "tell us, in fact, what the music itself fails to achieve." There is no greater monument to S ...on - you can indulge in it, because you are absolved from the guilt by the fact that, for the big Other, they definitely did NOT do it... And this double r
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• A Letter Which Did Not Reach its Destination (and thereby saved the world)
  ...r. One can also [[claim]] that what triggered the crisis was a symmetrical fact, a letter which also did not arrive at its addressee, but, this [[time]], b ...Stalin as the [[Father]] of his people...) which testify to the underlying fact that the logic of this [[leader]] is thoroughly anti-patriarchal, i.e., tha
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• Leninism Today: Zionism and the Jewish Question
  ...trast to the [[Nazis]], for whom the [[guilt]] of the [[Jews]] is a direct fact of their very [[biological]] [[constitution]]; one does not have to prove t ...less as this may sound, this last [[distinction]] bears [[witness]] to the fact that the opposition between Stalinism and Nazism was the opposition between
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• Cogito, Madness and Religion: Derrida, Foucault and then Lacan
  ...da’s refusal to exclude madness from philosophy bears [[witness]] to the fact that he remains a philosopher who is unable to think the Outside of philoso ...network of ideas from the network of bodily (real) [[causality]], for the fact that it is the big Other which accounts for the coordination of the two net
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• Radical Evil as a Freudian Category
  ...less as this may sound, this last [[distinction]] bears [[witness]] to the fact that the opposition between Stalinism and Nazism was the opposition between ...was right to emphasize, the unbearable horror of Auschwitz resides in the fact that its perpetrators were NOT Byronesque [[figures]] who asserted, like Mi
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• Only a Suffering God Can Save Us
  ...later faces the problem of how to reconcile the existence of God with the fact of <em>shoah</em> or similar excessive evil: how are we to reconcile the ex ...nters: what it signals is the failure of any <em>Aufhebung</em> of the raw fact of suffering. What echoes here is, more than the Jewish tradition, the basi
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• Madness and Habit in German Idealism
  ...literally into a mechanic display of the [[machine]]) is thus based in the fact that emotional displays, including the most "sincere" ones, are already in ...e crucial feature: possibility itself has to actualize itself, to become a fact, or, the form needs to become part of its own content (or, to add a further
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