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• Move the Underground!
  ...hould thus have the [[savoir]]-faire to play the existing, positive, notes in such a way that one would be able to discern the echo of the accompanying n ...nner [[jokes]], obscene practices, etc. The truly radical [[intervention]] in to military homophobia should therefore not focus primarily on the explicit
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• Over the Rainbow Coalition!
  ...Gibson's <i>[[Passion]]</i> seem impeccable: are they not fully justified in their worry that the [[film]], made by a fanatic [[Catholic]] traditionalis ...[[Jesus]]? Or as the typical secular Jew who, although he does not believe in Jehova and [[Moses]] as his prophet, nonetheless thinks that Jews have a di
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• Too Much Democracy?
  ...ules of the game"? Why should it not, in some circumstances, at least, put in question the legitimacy of the outcome of a formal democratic procedure? ...a couple of years ago, and the situation is similar in today's Pakistan.) In such a case, many a democrat would concede that the people was not yet "mat
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• Reloaded Revolutions
  ...(the constructed nature) of reality, and the triumphant return of the body in the sense of the ballet-like quality of fights with slow motions and defian ...universe which generates the false "wealth of experience" of humans caught in the Matrix.)<br><br>
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• The Matrix: The Truth of the Exaggerations
  ...our [[world]] is just a mirage generated by a [[global]] [[Mind]] embodied in the World Wide Web... ...ure, where each of us is effectively just a foetus-like organism, immersed in the pre-natal fluid...
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• When Straight Means Weird and Psychosis is Normal
  ...of the possible definitions of postmodern art as opposed to modernist art: in [[postmodernism]], the [[transgressive]] [[excess]] loses its shocking [[va ...he burglars and footpads are merely placid old cosmic conservatives, happy in the immemorial respectability of apes and wolves. /The police romance/ is b
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• Is There a Proper Way to Remake a Hitchcock Film?
  ...in everyday locution, (what he considers to be) the [[thought]] expressed in Shakespeare's [[metaphoric]] idiom - say, "To be or not to be, that is the ...esitations cannot be purely contingent… This is called [[true]] [[love]] in [[theory]]. So, out of this true love, I [[claim]] that there IS a unique H
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• Heiner Mueller Out of Joint
  ...ITICAL [[position]], not just as a pseudo-radical chic allowed and excused in advance to the eccentric [[artist]], and to see if it can be justified on T ...which were going on also in the previous epochs. Recall [[feminism]]: only in the last 200 years was the situation of [[women]] progressively perceived a
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• Some Politically Incorrect Reflections on Violence in France
  ...is sad fact that the opposition to the [[system]] cannot articulate itself in the guise of a realistic alternative, or at least a meaningful utopian [[pr ...ormulated by both sides, about the real danger of these outbursts residing in the easily predictable racist REACTION of the French populist crowd to them
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• Nobody Has to Be Vile
  ...t routine; [[culture]] and [[knowledge]] as against industrial production; in spontaneous interaction and [[autopoiesis]] as against fixed hierarchy. ...ckers dominate the [[scene]], [[working]] long hours, enjoying free drinks in green surroundings. The underlying [[notion]] here is that Gates is a subve
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• Bring Me My Philips Mental Jacket
  ...manity but nature itself. In this sense, Francis [[Fukuyama]] is [[right]] in <i>Our Posthuman [[Future]]</i>: the [[notion]] of humanity relies on the [ ...tion mistake: the stuttering [[repetition]] of the nucleotide sequence CAG in the middle of a particular gene. The age at which the disease will appear d
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• Attempts to Escape the Logic of Capitalism
  <i>Vaclav [[Havel]]: A [[Political]] [[Tragedy]] in Six [[Acts]]</i> by John Keane · Bloomsbury, 532 pp, £25.00 ...versal]] is not a betrayal of his original ethical stance, but is inherent in it. The ultimate lesson of Havel's tragedy is thus a cruel, but inexorable
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• Seminar VII
  ...all. Both have rejected the [[right]] to live in [[order]] to enter the "in-between-two-deaths," - ''entre-deux-morts'' - that is immortality. ...hing]]. As for disbelief, by rejecting the [[Thing]] it makes it reappear in the [[Real]], which is the [[Lacan]]ian definition of [[psychosis]].
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• Surrealism
  ...te to psychoanalysis and the crucial link to his [[clinical]] [[practice]] in [[psychiatry]]. ...iterary]] and artistic movement that emerged after the First [[World]] War in [[Paris]], its founding [[figure]] the writer and poet [[André Breton]] (1
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• Categorical Imperative
  ...hysic of Morals]]''. It is outlined here according to the arguments found in this [[work]]. ..., and is both required and justified as an end in itself. It is best known in its first formulation:
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• Antigone (Lacan)
  ...on the [[logic]] of the [[individual]] [[situation]], Kant merely succeeds in separating pleasurability from the [[notion]] of [[good]]. ...e above [[seminar]] [[Lacan]] comments on the [[tragedy]] of [[Antigone]], in a play which clearly expresses [[human]] [[being]]'s relation and debt to t
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• Parallax View
  ...therefore minimal difference, a "pure" difference which cannot be grounded in positive substantial properties.<ref><u>[[The Parallax View]].</ref></block ..., and neither is the "truthful" one - the truth resides in their very gap, in the shift of perspective. See René Girard, Job: The Victim and His People,
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• The Liberal Communists of Porto Davos
  ...to convince us (and themselves) that globalization is its own best remedy. In the sub-tropical, Brazilian city of Porto Alegre, the counter-elite of the ...ronically refers to as “[[liberal]] communists” (that is “liberal” in the pro-[[market]], European [[sense]]) who no longer accept the opposition
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• Jack Bauer and the Ethics of Urgency
  ...U) as it desperately attempts to thwart a catastrophic terrorist attack. (In season four, they stopped a stolen [[nuclear weapon]] from exploding above ...spectators’, real [[time]] is exactly equivalent to the [[temporal]] gap in the on-screen [[narrative]], as if the events nonetheless <i>go on</i> as w
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• How Much Democracy Is Too Much?
  ...ajority determine [[state]] decisions. Democracy—in the way the term is used today—concerns, above all, ‘’’[[formal]] legalism’’’. Its mi ...mal “rules of the game”? Why should it not, in some circumstances, put in question the legitimacy of the outcome of a formal democratic procedure?’
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