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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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• When Straight Means Weird and Psychosis is Normal
  ...perverted sex and [[violence]] that lurks beneath the respectable surface of our lives. ...rder to reproduce itself. Perhaps, this is one of the possible definitions of postmodern art as opposed to modernist art: in [[postmodernism]], the [[tra
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• Iraq's False Promises
  ...s can explain why the United States thinks that the [[aggressive]] pursuit of contradictory goals-promoting [[democracy]], affirming U.S. [[hegemony]], a ...roken when you borrowed it. Such an enumeration of inconsistent arguments, of course, confirms precisely what it endeavors to deny: that you, in fact, di
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• The Iraqi Borrowed Kettle
  ...I returned you a broken kettle... Now, in June 2003, when, after hundreds of investigators were [[looking]] after the WMD, none were found, the answer t ...the last term in each of the two series [[being]] the same - oil (in each of the two series, this term is given a different ideologico-[[political]] twi
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• What Rumsfeld Doesn't Know That He Knows About Abu Ghraib
  by [[Slavoj Žižek]] ...dad’s [[Abu Ghraib]] prison, we got a glimpse of this very [[dimension]] of themselves that Americans do not control.
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• Some Politically Incorrect Reflections on Violence in France
  ...re not from rich neighborhoods, but were part of the hard-won acquisitions of the very strata from which protesters originate. ...nger of these outbursts residing in the easily predictable racist REACTION of the French populist crowd to them.
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• The Antinomies of Tolerant Reason: A Blood-Dimmed Tide is Loosed
  ...s on the wane. The time has come to look back (as well as into the future, of course) and draw a balance. ...close, this can also give rise to aggressive reaction aimed at getting rid of this disturbing intruder – or, as Peter Sloterdijk put it: “More commun
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• Nobody Has to Be Vile
  ...t]] [[them]] over the [[past]] couple of years. Where did the bright stars of Porto Alegre go? ...e (thrive as entrepreneurs) and eat it (endorse the anti-capitalist causes of [[social]] [[responsibility]], ecological concern etc). There is no [[need]
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• The Two Totalitarianisms
  ...tika]] and other [[Nazi]] [[symbol]]s, a group of [[conservative]] members of the [[Europe]]an Parliament, mostly from ex-[[Communist]] countries, demand ...o need to prove they were [[guilty]], since they were [[guilty]] by virtue of being [[Jews]].
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