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• Psychoanalysis in Post-Marxism: The Case of Alain Badiou
  ...etal situation): this element is presented, but not re-presented. On the [[other]] hand, there is an excess of re-presentation over presentation: the [[agen ...s defining a specific [[community]] at the expense of excluding members of other communities), while divine grace is truly universal (i.e., nonexclusionary)
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• The Spectre Is Still Roaming Around!
  ...ur reality — on condition that we do not forget to [[supplement]] this [[image]] from the manifesto with its inherent [[dialectical]] opposite, the "spiri
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• When the Party Commits Suicide
  ...top of the "[[irrational]]" terror — is much more [[complex]] than the [[image]] of [[Stalin]] ruthlessly realizing his demoniac [[project]] of [[total]] ...xplicitly designated as a mere ritual. No wonder that, when Bukharin and [[other]] accused insisted on their innocence, the Central Committee perceived this
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• The Leninist Freedom
  ...up that they have the free choice to say no, and says [[nothing]] to the [[other]] group, in BOTH groups, the SAME (very high) percentage will agree to cont ...over-[[identification]] with the core of the [[official]] ideology: the [[image]] of man that we get in Eisenstein, Meyerhold, constructivist paintings, et
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• Il n'y a pas de rapport religieux
  ...[[number]] changes into a tedious [[spectacle]]?<ref>Deleuze, Gilles, L'[[image]]-mouvement, [[Paris]]: Éditions de Minuit, 1983, p. 234-236.</ref>
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• Seize the Day: Lenin's Legacy
  ...nary [[agent]] requires the permission of some [[representative]] of the [[Other]] before he risks seizing state power. For Lenin, as for [[Lacan]], the rev ..., after overthrowing Milosevic, could become a thriving [[democracy]]; the other ex-Yugoslav nations were too provincial to do so. This brings to mind Engel
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• A Plea for Leninist Intolerance
  ...the root of postcolonial exploitation is our [[intolerance]] toward the [[Other]] and, furthermore, that this intolerance itself is rooted in our intoleran ...nt from [[racism]]; our [[perception]] of a difference between humans and (other) animals is no less illogical and unethical than our one-time perception of
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• Homo Sacer in Afghanistan
  ...he enemy par excellence: it is not only that they conceal their [[true]] [[image]] or contours — it is that there is ultimately [[Nothing|NOTHING]] beneat
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• From 'Passionate Attachments' to Dis-Identification
  ...nstrates that the Foucauldian "[[body]]" as the site of resistance is none other than the [[Freudian]] "psyche." Paradoxically, "body" is [[Foucault]]'s [[n If the unconscious escapes from a given normative [[injunction]], to what other injunction does it [[form]] an attachment? What makes us [[think]] that the
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• You May
  ...[order]] or [[code]] of accepted fictions (what [[Lacan]] calls the 'Big [[Other]]') to [[guide]] us in our [[social]] behaviour. All our impulses, from [[s ...d 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 give [[structure
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• The Stellar Parallax: The Traps of Ontological Difference
  ...t provides a materialist supplement, reinscribing the subject into its own image in the guise of a stain (the objectivized splinter in its eye). Materialism ...myth of "primordial accumulation." <a name="4"></a><a href="#4x">4</a> In other words, there is no direct immanent line of development from the prehistory
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• A Glance into the Archives of Islam
  ...substantive; in one of his commandments, God prohibits Jews to celebrate [[other]] gods “in front of me,” not when [[outside]] of his [[gaze]]; etc.), w ...], what Hegel would have called its "ethical substance") and its obscene [[Other, the]] unacknowledgeable "[[spectral]]," [[fantasmatic]] secret history tha
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• Christians, Jews and Other Criminals: A Critique of Jean-Claude Milner
  ...from its enemies. <i>Grosso modo</i>, the predominance of the one or the [[other]] aspect defines the opposition between American and European democracy: "I ..., to turn Clausewitz around, the continuation of the war against Jews with other (political) means? Is this not the "[[stain]] of injustice" that pertains
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• Opera
  ...] Hagen's terrifying <i>Maennerruf</i>) - a worthy [[supplement]] to his [[other]] great intuition, that of a [[hysterical]] woman (Kundry) well before this ...n (copulation by the Jewess Kundry). There are two complications to this [[image]]: first, Klingsor, the evil magician and Kundry's Master, is himself an ex
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• Smashing the Neighbor's Face
  ...by means of which the Same as the hostage take the place of (replaces) the Other... Is, however, this gesture of "reconciliatory sacrifice" not [[Christ]]'s ...n asymmetric relationship in which I am always-already responsible for the Other, while politics is the [[domain]] of symmetrical equality and distributive
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• Reloaded Revolutions
  ...the constitutive alienation of the subject in the symbolic order: the big other pulls the strings, the subject doesn't speak, he "is spoken" by the symboli ...igital universe of the Matrix itself. when Morpheus confronts Neo with the image of the ruins of Chicago, he simply says "This is the real world!", i.e., wh
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• The Matrix: The Truth of the Exaggerations
  ..."Matrix," the mega-computer directly attached to all our minds), but the [[image]] of the millions of [[human]] beings leading a claustrophobic life in wate ...ersonal experience can be stolen, manipulated, regulated by the machinical Other. One can see how the prospect of radical virtualization bestows on the comp
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• Is There a Proper Way to Remake a Hitchcock Film?
  ...la [[lettre]]: in Hitchcock's films, we also find the same [[visual]] or [[other]] motif that insists, imposing itself through an [[uncanny]] [[compulsion]] ..., since there is no [[sexual relationship]], it can only be staged for the Other's gaze? <br>
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• The Act and Its Vicissitudes
  ...I chose," yet it did not really seem possible to do the opposite. On the [[other]] hand, I was aware of no motives. You could argue that I was not a free [[ ...]," [[aggressivity]] is here clearly aimed at oneself, at one's own mirror-image. This suicidal dimension reemerges at the end of the slaughter scene when T
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• The Iraqi MacGuffin
  ...s companion, 'What is in that unusual package you are carrying there?' The other man replies, 'That is a MacGuffin.' 'What is a MacGuffin?' asks the first. ...nded in a benevolent paternalism which takes into account the interests of other nations and their people, it reserves for itself the ultimate right to DEFI
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