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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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• Bring Me My Philips Mental Jacket
  ...ed 'human nature', that we are [[born]] with an unfathomable [[dimension]] of ourselves.* ...lessness of a [[life]]-determining [[contingency]]. No wonder the majority of [[people]] (including the [[scientist]] who [[identified]] the gene) choose
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• Knee-Deep
  <i>Free [[World]]: Why a Crisis of the West Reveals the Opportunity of Our [[Time]]</i> by [[Timothy Garton Ash]] ...anything, this is it. The fate of this revolutionary was surely the fate of the [[people]] as a [[whole]] under [[Stalinist]] [[dictatorship]]: the mil
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• Attempts to Escape the Logic of Capitalism
  ...tragedy is thus a cruel, but inexorable one: the direct ethical foundation of politics sooner or later turns into its own comic caricature, adopting the * [[Attempts to Escape the Logic of Capitalism]]. ''[[London]] Review of Books''. Volume 21. [[Number]] 21. October 28, 1999. <http://www.lrb.co.uk/
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• Are We in a War
  ...life by stern [[discipline]] and [[punishment]]. What if the [[true]] aim of the [[present]] Israeli intrusion into Palestinian territory is not to prev ...ns, Afghans), as well as to the Sans Papiers in France and the inhabitants of the favelas in [[Brazil]] or the African American ghettoes in the US.
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• Biography of Slavoj Zizek
  [[Slavoj Žižek:Biography#1910|1901]] · [[Slavoj Žižek:Biography#1910|1901]] ·
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• No Subject - Articles
  :[[Death Drive]] -- [[Desire]] -- [[Jouissance]] -- [[Name of the Father]] -- [[Objet petit a]] -- [[Oedipus Complex]] -- [[Pleasure Prin ...[[Jacques Lacan]] -- [[Jacques-Alain Miller]] -- [[Marquis de Sade]] -- [[Slavoj Žižek]]
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• Thanks, But We’ll Do It Ourselves
  By Slavoj [[Zizek]] ...ey will [[return]] to the seclusion of their community. Indeed, 90 percent of the children do exactly that.
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• Ludwig Wittgenstein
  ...d]]. He is widely regarded as one of the most influential [[philosophers]] of the 20th century. [[Category:Slavoj Žižek|Wittgenstein, Ludwig]]
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• Blade Runner
  ...her and David Peoples, is loosely based on the novel Do Androids [[Dream]] of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick. The film features Harrison Ford, Rutger ...rth. The film primarily focuses on a particularly brutal and cunning group of replicants hiding in Los Angeles and a semi-retired blade runner, named Ric
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• Richard Wagner
  == In the work of Slavoj Žižek == ...storical context. Rather, it comes from the conviction that Wagner’s own works undermine his [[explicit]] [[ideological]] [[project]].
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• Parallax View
  ...f, the highest act of [[freedom]] is the display of ''amor fati'', the act of freely assuming what is otherwise necessary. ...at its most radical that which objects, that which disturbs the smooth run of things.
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• The Liberal Communists of Porto Davos
  ...legre reunions seem to have lost their impetus. Where did the bright stars of Porto Alegre go? ...ofitable entrepreneurs) and eat it too (endorse the anti-capitalist causes of social [[responsibility]], ecological concerns, etc.). No [[need]] for Port
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