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• The Stellar Parallax: The Traps of Ontological Difference
  ...es, annoys, disturbs, traumatizes us (subjects): the object is at its most radical that which objects, that which disturbs the smooth run of things. <a name=" ...tive deadlock (how, in what order, to tell the story), thus signals a more radical deadlock that pertains to the social content itself. Fitzgerald's narrative
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• Hegel - Chesterton: German Idealism and Christianity
  And the same goes for [[ethics]]: radical act of [[Good]] HAS to appear first as "[[evil]]," as disturbing the substa ...caption'': he resolves the riddle by way of supplanting it by an even more radical riddle, by way of redoubling the riddle, by way of transposing the riddle f
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• The Obscenity of Human Rights: Violence as Symptom
  ...[[liberal]] stance is unable to trespass - [[witness]] the uneasiness of "radical" [[post-colonialism|post-colonialist]] Afro-American studies apropos of [[F ...ht]] to universality as such, the right of a political agent to assert its radical non-coincidence with itself (in its particular identity), i.e., to posit it
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• With or Without Passion
  ...h</i> is to be understood along the lines of the story of Job, as the most radical [[test]] of our [[faith]] in God - if we survive this ordeal, our character
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• Move the Underground!
  ...homosexual]] innuendos, inner [[jokes]], obscene practices, etc. The truly radical [[intervention]] in to military homophobia should therefore not focus prima
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• Over the Rainbow Coalition!
  ...unction to engage in more and more "daring" forms of sexuality... In some "radical" circles in the US, there came recently a proposal to "rethink" the rights ...g in the national parks, etc. It is the ultimate irony of [[history]] that radical individualism serves as the ideological justification of the unconstrained
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• Christians, Jews and Other Criminals: A Critique of Jean-Claude Milner
  ...le of the obstacle? What does the Jew stand for? Milner's answer is here radical: much more than the form of existence delimited by tradition, much more tha ...</a> Is this weird incident not the supreme case of how the Nazis and the radical Zionists did share a common interest - in both cases, the [[purpose]] was a
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• Opera
  ...like heroes... Then, in 1950, there occurred the New Bayreuth explosion of radical modernism: ascetic, pseudo Ancient Greek tunics, empty [[stages]] with stro ...f Wagner that we make it clear to ourselves where do we stand, in the most radical existential [[sense]], and the power of Wagner's opus is precisely that it
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• Smashing the Neighbor's Face
  ..., 1985.</ref> (Although Levinas dismisses [[Freud]] as irrelevant for his radical ethical problematic, was Freud also in his own way not aware of it? Is “[ ...ional [[achievement]] or in spiritual awakening, one should move to a more radical level: psychoanalysis is today the only [[discourse]] in which you are all
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• Passion In The Era of Decaffeinated Belief
  ...acceptance of the liberal-capitalist world order. It is here that a truly radical analysis should break with the standard liberal attitude: no, one should NO ...unction to engage in more and more "daring" forms of sexuality... In some "radical" circles in the US, there came recently a proposal to "rethink" the rights
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• The Matrix: The Truth of the Exaggerations
  ...ulated, regulated by the machinical Other. One can see how the prospect of radical virtualization bestows on the computer the position which is strictly homol
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• When Straight Means Weird and Psychosis is Normal
  ...le]] his previous films? What if, in our postmodern [[world]] in which the radical ethical commitment is perceived as ridiculously out of time, he is the true ...ve any kind of sex life." Insofar as such coldness characterizes a certain radical lesbian stance, one is tempted to claim that, rather than being a closet ga
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• The Act and Its Vicissitudes
  ...[[claim]] that Job must be somehow [[guilty]]: what is at stake at a more radical level is the [[meaning]](lessness) of Job's suffering. Like [[Oedipus at Co ...Routledge 2001.</ref> What this means is that one should risk a much more radical than usual [[reading]] of Christ's "Father, why did you forsake me?" than t
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• The Iraqi MacGuffin
  ...in Iraq, and that the attack on Iraq is probably conceived as a much more radical [[preemptive strike]] - not against Saddam, but against the main contender ...e. That, precisely, the Jews, the exemplary victims, are now considering a radical _ethnic cleansingí (the _transferí - a perfect Orwellian misnomer - of th
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• Heiner Mueller Out of Joint
  ...nce seriously as a THEORETICO-POLITICAL [[position]], not just as a pseudo-radical chic allowed and excused in advance to the eccentric [[artist]], and to see ...ritique. Openly acknowledging this solidarity would deprive them of their "radical" aura, changing them into [[another]] version of the Cold War anti-Communis
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• Death's Merciless Love
  ...what he is doing, and he nonetheless does it" can also stand for the most radical opposite of [[cynicism]], i.e. for the tragic [[awareness]] that, although Christ's sacrifice is thus in a radical sense MEANINGLESS: not an act of exchange, but a superfluous, excessive, un
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• Objet a as Inherent Limit to Capitalism
  ...subordinated to the [[logic]] of profit) still politics, or is it the most radical sort of depoliticization, the entry into "[[post-politics]]?" And, last bu ...nal forms of today's capitalism - decentralization of the decision-making, radical mobility and flexibility, interaction of multiple agents - are perceived as
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• Some Politically Incorrect Reflections on Violence in France
  ...order - not because these reports were "exaggerated," but for a much more radical [[reason]]. [[Jacques Lacan]] claimed that, even if the [[patient]]'s wife ...ogical [[balance]]. With regard to the <i>"C'est mon choix,"</i> the truly radical thing would have been to focus precisely on the "disturbing" choices: to in
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• The Antinomies of Tolerant Reason: A Blood-Dimmed Tide is Loosed
  ...ou a broken kettle… Does the same inconsistency not characterize the way radical Islamists respond to the holocaust? (1) Holocaust did not happen. (2) It di
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• Lenin Shot at Finland Station
  ...oncern how much better history would have been if some revolutionary or ‘radical’ [[event]] had been avoided (if Charles I had won the Civil War; if the [ ...ommitment to alternative histories in the radical [[Marxist]] view. For a radical Marxist, the actual [[history]] that we live is itself the realisation of a
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