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• Slavoj Žižek
  [[Image:Zizek_Large.jpg|300px|frame|right|Slavoj Žižek]] '''[[Slavoj Žižek]]''' (pronounced: slaˈvɔj ʒiˈʒɛk) ([[born]] 21 March 1949) is
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• Alain Badiou
  ...dy group organized by [[Louis Althusser]] and grew increasingly influenced by [[Jacques Lacan]]. ...of more main-line [[Marxism]]. In 1988 he published what is now considered by many to be his major [[statement]], ''L'être et l'événement''. He took u
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• Sigmund Freud
  ...56. His father [[Jacob]] was 41, a wool merchant, and had two [[children]] by a previous marriage. His [[mother]] Amalia was 21. Owing to his intellect, ...upposed that all [[living]] organisms are [[energy]]-systems also governed by this [[principle]]. During this year, at the [[University of Vienna]], Bru
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• Jacques-Alain Miller
  ...s dissolution of the École Française de Psychanalyse in 1980 is followed by the creation of La [[cause freudienne]]. Soon he dies leaving Miller as the ...f [[Terrorism]]" where he asserted that "an [[analyst]] is only authorized by her/himself (Lacan's dictum: l'[[analyste]] ne s'autorise que de lui-même)
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• Racism
  ...ity we cna be proud of and be happy within, but this [[goal]] is denied us by lazy scrounging foreginers. We can therefor not enjoy our community becaus ...ocess is taking plce whereby the dehumanizing of the o ther is accompanied by an inflation of the other's power and strenght.
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• The One Measure of True Love Is: You Can Insult the Other
  Slavoj Zizek, Interviewed by Sabine Reul and Thomas Deichmann. ...:script="urn:my-script-blocks"></br><b xmlns:script="urn:my-script-blocks">Slavoj Žižek:</b> Of course, I am not against the new. I am, indeed, almost temp
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• Blaise Pascal
  ...[[philosophers]], who simply accepted modernity.<ref>{{Z}} "[[Articles by Slavoj Žižek|The One Measure of True Love Is: You Can Insult the Other]]."</ref> [[Category:Slavoj Žižek|Pascal, Blaise]]
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• Welcome to the Desert of the Real (Essay)
  ...rification is so destructive resides in the very fact that it is sustained by the [[belief]] that, after the destructive work of purification will be acc ...of the famous [[scene]] from [[Hitchcock]]'s Birds, superbly [[analyzed]] by [[Raymond Bellour]], in which Melanie approaches the Bodega Bay pier after
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• Welcome to the Desert of the Real-2
  Welcome to the Desert of the [[Real]] [2] Slavoj [[Zizek]]. Re:constructions, 09/15/2001. WELCOME TO THE DESERT OF THE REAL! [[Slavoj Zizek]]
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• Self-Deceptions
  When you are bombarded by claims that in our post-[[ideological]] cynical era nobody believes any mor ...tary imbalance in the [[relationship]] between the Ego and [[jouissance]], by the tension between [[pleasure]] and the foreign [[body]] of jouissance in
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• Can Lenin Tell Us About Freedom Today
  ...in]] of doxa, of pragmatic considerations and compromises which always and by definition fall short of the unconditional [[ethical]] [[demand]]. The [[no ...the results of my personality, not as the result of me being thrown around by the [[market]] forces.
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• Human Rights and Its Discontents
  Slavoj [[Zizek]]: ...iduals in our post-modern [[political]] process. We are all the time asked by politicians to press such buttons. But some things are excluded. What is ex
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• Cynicism as a Form of Ideology
  ...the more sophisticated versions of the critics of ideology -that developed by the Frankfurt [[School]], for example — it is not just a question of [[se ...choanalysis, it is closer to Alphonse Allais's well-known [[joke]], quoted by Lacan: somebody points at a [[woman]] and utters a horrified cry, "Look at
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• The Interpassive Subject
  ...short-circuit between the [[formal]]/differential [[structure]] (which is by definition "[[absent]]," i.e. it is never given "as such" in our experienti ...rmost "relations between people" can be [[displaced]] onto (or substituted by) "relations between things"? That is to say, is it not a basic feature of t
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• Woman is One of the Names-of-the-Father
  ...lso a capricious [[Master]] who wants it all, i.e., who, herself not bound by any Law, charges her knight-servant with [[arbitrary]] and outrageous ordea ...r, we are dealing with an agency of power which is pre-symbolic, unbridled by the Law of castration; in both cases, the role of this fantasmatic agency i
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• It Doesn't Have to be a Jew
  Slavoj [[Zizek]], Interviewed by Josefina Ayerza. JOSEFINA AYERZA: The contemporary [[political]] [[discourse]], changed by events such as the altering of [[communist]] regular patterns, should be gi
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• Femininity between Goodness and Act
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• Die doppelte Erpressung
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• In His Bold Gaze My Ruin is Writ Large
  ...g Man is Hitchcock at its purest. His special attachment to it is attested by the exceptional [[character]] of his cameo-[[appearance]] in the prologue; ...to take into account the strict [[concept]] of "[[sadism]]" as elaborated by [[Lacan]]. In "[[Kant]] with [[Sade]]," Lacan proposed two schemes which tr
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• Hidden Prohibitions and the Pleasure Principle
  ...ment from [[human]] [[desire]]. Kant's [[practical]] [[reason]], sustained by [[moral]] law, brings out desire at its utmost: we [[know]] nevertheless ho ...] fantasy, you get it, but without claws, without teeth, it is all cut off by a veterinarian. For me this is the ultimate of this same [[logic]]. [[Nothi
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• Ethnic Dance Macabre
  THE [[world]] today is more and more marked by the frontier separating its insiders from its outsiders, between the "devel ...in the bloody disintegration tries to legitimise their place "[[inside]]" by presenting themselves as the last bastion of European civilisation (the cur
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• The Cyberspace Real
  ...universe]] of [[hallucinations]], unconstrained by any [[symbolic]] Law or by any [[impossibility]] of some [[Real]]? If not, how are we to detect in cyb ...the interactive immersive [[environment]] in which we actively participate by [[role]]-playing) no longer writes detailed story-line, s/he merely provide
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• Multiculturalism, or, the Cultural Logic of Multinational Capitalism
  ...ness resides in the regulation of its jouissance, i.e. the "real Other" is by definition "patriarchal", "violent", never the Other of ethereal wisdom and [[Category:Articles by Slavoj Žižek]]
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• From Joyce-the-Symptom to the Symptom of Power
  ...the [[social]] influence of her parents…"). Its crucial feature is that, by providing this answer, the [[subject]] pretends to assume the standpoint of ...held accountable for racist outbursts is an [[illusion]] already denounced by [[Nietzsche]] who proved that the deed or rather the doing is original, and
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• Desire:Drive = Truth:Knowledge
  ...] explanatory presupposition, like the second [[stage]] (I am being beaten by my [[father]]) of the [[child]]'s fantasy "A child is being beaten" which, ...ible]] for the malfunction. While this is true, this "truth" is propagated by me to conceal the fact that the accident realized my desire. On the contrar
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• Psychoanalysis in Post-Marxism: The Case of Alain Badiou
  ...in the 1930s? Why did they let themselves be lured into dull satisfaction by the Sirens of the late-[[capitalist]] "[[society]] of consumption" in the 1 ...element which, though clearly belonging to the situation, is not "counted" by it, properly included in it (e.g., the "nonintegrated" rabble in a societal
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• The Lesbian Session
  ...ne of over-conformist authors who undermine the ruling ideological edifice by their very excessive [[identification]] with it. ...mself, his [[self]]-confidence and assurance depend on how he is perceived by [[others]], while the prime mover is fully reconciled with himself, relying
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• The Spectre Is Still Roaming Around!
  ...? Was there ever a [[political]] manifesto that was more clearly falsified by subsequent historical [[reality]]? Isn't [[The Communist Manifesto]], at be ...n every quarter of the globe. In [[place]] of the old wants, [[satisfied]] by the productions of the country, we find new wants, requiring for their [[sa
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• When the Party Commits Suicide
  ...he Bolshevik rule was unstable, out of [[control]], permanently threatened by the centrifugal forces — far more than the gratuitous [[sadistic]] displa ...ap: instead of the usual public-[[symbolic]] [[power structure]] sustained by the obscene invisible network of apparatuses, we have the public power stru
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• Surplus-Enjoyment Between the Sublime and the Trash
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• Welcome to the Desert of the Real-3
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• Run, Isolde, Run
  ...lative" to the [[life]]-[[experience]] the old forms endeavoured to render by means of their "excessive" experimentations. A [[whole]] series of [[narrat ...es of multiple parallel destinies that interact and are crucially affected by meaningless [[contingent]] encounters, the points at which one series inter
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• Matinee Idols: Joan Bennett
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• Have Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri Rewritten the Communist Manifesto For the Twenty-First Century
  ...of [[money]] begetting more money, of a [[system]] which can survive only by constantly revolutionizing its own [[conditions]]-that is to say, in which ...we are dealing with a nothing which acquires some deceptive substance only by magically spinning itself into an excess of itself. Does today's virtual ca
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• The Leninist Freedom
  ...the results of my personality, not as the result of me being thrown around by [[market]] forces. ...] freedom to choose. In most cases, he will do it, and then rationalize it by way of saying to himself something like: “What I am asked to do IS disgus
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• Il n'y a pas de rapport religieux
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• Seize the Day: Lenin's Legacy
  ...nto an advantage: "What if the [[complete]] hopelessness of the situation, by stimulating the efforts of the [[workers]] and peasants tenfold, offered us ...the same as today's illusion that the ecological [[threat]] can be avoided by applying [[market]] [[logic]] (making polluters pay for the damage they [[c
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• Homo Sacer in Afghanistan
  ...never just the verification of a factual [[difference]]: the [[enemy]] is by definition always — up to a point, at least — invisible, it looks like [[Category:Articles by Slavoj Žižek]]
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• Gerhard Schroeder's Minority Report and Its Consequences
  ...] (in the 31 pages paper entitled "The National Security Strategy," issued by the White House on September 20 2002)? Its main points are: the American mi ...reby [[stating]] an opinion shared not only by many other states, but also by a considerable percentage of American people and congressmen. Schroeder was
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• The Iraq War: Where is The True Danger
  ...f the [[nightmare]] called Saddam. To this majority, the caution expressed by Western [[liberals]] cannot but appear deeply hypocritical — do they real ...or even Luxembourg. The [[refusal]] of "Americanization" in France, shared by many Leftists and Rightist nationalists, is thus ultimately the refusal to
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• From 'Passionate Attachments' to Dis-Identification
  I [[want]] to address the problem of [[identification]] by confronting the predominant deconstructionist doxa according to which the m ...nconscious "passionate attachments," attachments publicly non-acknowledged by the subject:
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• You May
  ...nd what to eat, how to relax and amuse oneself - have now been "colonised" by reflexivity, and are experienced as something to be learned and decided on. ...[[future]] of humanity offer one example of this. [[Another]] is provided by the [[scene]] in [[cyberspace]] movies in which the hero (or often the hero
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• The Stellar Parallax: The Traps of Ontological Difference
  ...the active subject working on the passive object): the subject is defined by a fundamental passivity, and it is the object from which movement comes, i. ...twist by means of which I myself am included into the picture constituted by me - it is this reflexive short-circuit, this necessary REDOUBLING of mysel
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• Hegel - Chesterton: German Idealism and Christianity
  by [[Slavoj Žižek]] ...ch is an "abstract [[negation]]" of polytheism and, as such, still haunted by it (Jehovah - plural; do not celebrate [[other]] gods IN FRONT OF ME; etc.)
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• A Glance into the Archives of Islam
  ...the [[true]] union of the East and the West – the point made exemplarily by Claude Levi-[[Strauss]]: ..../<BR><BR>The West should [[return]] to the sources of its torn condition: by way of interposing itself between [[Buddhism]] and Christianity, Islam isla
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• The Obscenity of Human Rights: Violence as Symptom
  ...]'s [[distinction]] between Ought and Must, an authentic [[revolution]] is by definition performed as a Must - it is not something we "ought to do" as an ...e]] main versions of theorizing these catastrophes: (1) the one epitomized by the name of [[Habermas]]: [[Enlightenment]] is in itself a positive emancip
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• With or Without Passion
  ...elief in the ultimate goodness of man in spite of the horrors accomplished by men against [[Jews]] in [[World]] War II: what renders such an assertion of ...which the [[ideological]] belief is transposed onto the Other is disturbed by the violent return of the immediate belief - they "really believe it." The
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• Move the Underground!
  ...how one should read the famous "inner voice <i>linnere Stimmel</i>" added by Schumann (in the written score) as a [[third]] line between the two piano l ...up every night, etc.; however, this explicit [[homophobia]] is accompanied by an excessive set of implicit web of [[homosexual]] innuendos, inner [[jokes
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• Over the Rainbow Coalition!
  ...cable: are they not fully justified in their worry that the [[film]], made by a fanatic [[Catholic]] traditionalist with occasional anti-Semitic outburst .... A glimpse into the Pope's spontaneous reaction was thus quickly replaced by the "official" neutral stance, corrected in [[order]] not to hurt anyone. T
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• Homo Sacer as the Object of the Discourse of the University
  ...g premise is sceptic-[[conservative]] - Lacan's diagnosis is best captured by his famous retort to the student revolutionaries: "As [[hysterics]], you [[ ...y measures (cutting [[welfare]] expenses, etc.) as a [[necessity]] imposed by his neutral expertise devoid of any [[ideological]] biases: what he conceal
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• Too Much Democracy?
  "Democracy" is not merely the "power of, by, and for the people," it is not enough just to claim that, in democracy, th ...e the suspension of democracy: what if the formally free elections are won by an anti-democratic party whose platform promises the abolition of formal de
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• Smashing the Neighbor's Face
  ...rs." This is how Levinas defines the "reconciliatory sacrifice": a gesture by means of which the Same as the hostage take the place of (replaces) the Oth ...being and its immanent powers: do I have (the right) to be? Is it not that by insisting in being, I deprive others of their place, I ultimately kill them
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• Reloaded Revolutions
  ...the big other pulls the strings, the subject doesn't speak, he "is spoken" by the symbolic structure. The paradox, the "infinite judgment" of <i>The Matr ...not only of their true situation, but also of the threat posed in reality by the evil agent who intends to kill them shortly. It is as if the subjects o
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• Biopolitics: Between Terri Schiavo and Guantanamo
  ...ad, those who are in a way already dead (their [[right]] to live forfeited by being legitimate targets of murderous bombings), so that they are now cases ...as a legal [[power]], their [[acts]] are no longer covered and constrained by the law - they operate in an empty space that is still within the [[domain]
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• Passion In The Era of Decaffeinated Belief
  ...mpeccable: are they not fully justified in their worry that the film, made by a fanatic Catholic traditionalist with occasional anti-Semitic outbursts, m .... A glimpse into the Pope's spontaneous reaction was thus quickly replaced by the "official" neutral stance, corrected in order not to hurt anyone. This
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• The Matrix: The Truth of the Exaggerations
  ...the source of speculations on how our [[world]] is just a mirage generated by a [[global]] [[Mind]] embodied in the World Wide Web... ...at we [[experience]] as reality is an artificial virtual reality generated by the "Matrix," the mega-computer directly attached to all our minds), but th
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• When Straight Means Weird and Psychosis is Normal
  ...f gigantic cranes was staged as an art performance - doubtlessly perceived by a lot of uninformed bypassers as part of an intense construction [[activity ...]], Tom gets more and more fascinated not only by Dickie himself, but also by the polished, easy-going, socially acceptable upper-[[class]] [[life]] that
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• Iraq's False Promises
  ...est strivings only he expresses. The catch is, those who oppose the leader by definition not only oppose him, but they also oppose the deepest and nobles ..., for example, at the U.S. decision to impose steel tariffs, ruled illegal by the World Trade Organization and certainly in violation of its own sacrosan
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• The Iraqi Borrowed Kettle
  ...ons inspectors were asking for - more time - and were scathingly dismissed by the US.<br><br> ...he thirty-one page paper entitled "The National Security Strategy," issued by the White House on September 20, 2002)? Its main points are: American milit
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• What Rumsfeld Doesn't Know That He Knows About Abu Ghraib
  by [[Slavoj Žižek]] In his reaction to the photos showing Iraqi prisoners tortured and humiliated by U.S. soldiers, President George W. [[Bush]], as expected, emphasized how th
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• Some Politically Incorrect Reflections on Violence in France
  ...[[freedom]] of [[choice]], when the only choice is the one between playing by the rules and ([[self]]-)destructive violence, a violence which is almost e ...action is worse: they are BOTH worse, inclusive of the warning, formulated by both sides, about the real danger of these outbursts residing in the easily
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• The Antinomies of Tolerant Reason: A Blood-Dimmed Tide is Loosed
  The excitation and the sense of urgency caused by the daily reports on violent demonstrations against the perpetrators of Muh ...hat distance is included into the very social texture: even if I live side by side with others, the normal state is to ignore them. I am allowed not to g
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• Nobody Has to Be Vile
  ...t, moved to Davos. The tone of the Davos meetings is now predominantly set by the group of entrepreneurs who ironically refer to themselves as ‘[[liber ...s – teaches us that private enterprise is by far the most effective way. By regulating their business, taxing them excessively, the state is underminin
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• The Two Totalitarianisms
  ...here was no need to prove they were [[guilty]], since they were [[guilty]] by virtue of being [[Jews]]. ...s <em>To Be or Not to Be</em>, [[Hitler]] responds to the [[Nazi]] salute by raising his hand and saying: ‘Heil myself!’ This is pure [[humour]] be
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• Bring Me My Philips Mental Jacket
  ...Heidegger perceived as the '[[danger]]' inherent in modern [[technology]]. By reducing a human being to a natural object whose properties can be altered, The prospect of biogenetic [[intervention]] opened up by increasing access to the human genome effectively emancipates humankind fro
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• Knee-Deep
  ...d]]: Why a Crisis of the West Reveals the Opportunity of Our [[Time]]</i> by [[Timothy Garton Ash]] ...) read like a [[list]] of desiderata: the developed countries should abide by the rules of fair competition they want to impose on the underdeveloped one
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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 ...hentic ethical stance has become a moralising idiom cynically appropriated by the knaves of capitalism. His heroic insistence on doing the impossible (op
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• Are We in a War
  ...ly, as [[evil]] [[children]] who have to be brought back to an honest life by stern [[discipline]] and [[punishment]]. What if the [[true]] aim of the [[ ...apiers'. Perhaps the [[category]] of [[homo sacer]], brought back into use by Giorgio [[Agamben]] in Homo Sacer: Sovereign [[Power]] and [[Bare life|Bare
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• Parallax View
  ...the active subject working on the passive object): the subject is defined by a fundamental passivity, and it is the object from which movement comes, i. ...the focus of my [[libido|libidinal investment]], and this shift is caused by some unfathomable x, a ''je ne sais quoi'' in the object which cannot ever
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• Slavoj Zizek - Articles
  #redirect [[Articles by Slavoj Žižek]]
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• The Liberal Communists of Porto Davos
  ...cording to Negri, is becoming almost indistinguishable from [[communism]]. By Negri’s reckoning, both the old Right—with its ridiculous [[belief]] in ...is not to earn [[money]], but to change the world (and, in this way, as a by-product, make even more money).
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• Jack Bauer and the Ethics of Urgency
  ...[[nature]] of the series confers a strong [[sense]] of urgency, emphasized by the ticking of a digital clock and accentuated with hand-held camera shots ...all, they are dealing with the “[[ticking bomb]]” [[situation]] evoked by [[Alan Dershowitz]] to justify torture in his book, <i>Why [[Terrorism]] Wo
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• Give Iranian Nukes a Chance
  ...uclear weapon]] - an assessment that differs with earlier timetables cited by Bush administration officials, who estimated that Iran was only five years ...ism]] - all the way up to today’s "[[war on terror]]." The threats posed by such an invisible enemy legitimizes the [[logic]] of the [[preemptive strik
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• Thanks, But We'll Do It Ourselves
  ...hey can do it if it is their free choice and not an option imposed on them by their husbands or family. However, the [[moment]] women wear a [[veil]] as ...s a "[[meta-choice]]," a choice that simultaneously defines and is defined by the [[conditions]] of the choice itself. It is only the [[woman]] who does
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• The Pope's Failures
  ...cials. A glimpse into the Pope’s spontaneous reaction was thus replaced by the “[[official]],” neutral stance, corrected so as not to hurt anyone. Today, in our era of over-sensitivity regarding “[[harassment]]” by the [[Other]], it’s increasingly common to hear complaints [[about]] “[
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• How Much Democracy Is Too Much?
  [[Democracy]] is not merely the “[[power]] of, by, and for the [[people]].” It is not enough just to [[claim]] that, in de ...erate the suspension of democracy: What if formally free elections are won by an anti-[[Democratic Party|democratic party]] whose platform promises the a
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• The Desert of the Real
  and see around us is a [[virtual]] one, generated and coordinated by hero, played by Keanu Reeves, awakens into the “[[real]] reality,” he
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• Today, Iraq. Tomorrow ... Democracy?
  ...the nightmare called [[Saddam]]. To this majority, the caution expressed by [[West]]ern [[liberal]]s cannot but appear deeply hypocritical. Do they re ...emocratically elected leader, for maintaining an anti-war stance supported by the large majority of Germans. In [[Turkey]], according to opinion polls,
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• Ideology Reloaded
  ...of [[energy]]. New Agers see how our [[world]] is just a mirage generated by a [[global]] [[Mind]] embodied in the World Wide Web. Or the series is a ba ...strings; the [[subject]] doesn’t [[speak]], the subject “is spoken” by [[the symbolic]] [[structure]]. This big Other is the [[name]] for the soci
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• Learning To Love Leni Riefenstahl
  ...er [[personality]]? It seems that the [[fear]] of those who are fascinated by Leni is no longer “When will she die?” but “Will she <i>ever</i> die? ...omes the [[victim]] of a pogrom—there is no [[other]] appropriate word—by the villagers? (Perhaps it is not an accident that Béla Balázs, Leni’s
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• Passion: Regular or Decaf?
  ...seem unassailable: Are they not justified to worry that the [[film]], made by a fanatic [[Catholic]] known for occasional [[anti-Semitic]] outbursts, may ...[[Vatican]] speakers. The Pope’s spontaneous reaction was thus replaced by an “[[official]]” [[neutrality]], corrected so as not to hurt anyone.
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• What Does Europe Want? (article)
  ...r granted; we still [[know]] what [[true]] culture is, not being corrupted by the cheap Americanized mass culture. ...either by isolating themselves from the cultural mainstream in Slovenia or by simply leaving the country for some [[time]], [[living]] in [[Vienna]] or [
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• The Free World ... of Slums
  ...d more like a [[list]] of desiderata (the developed countries should abide by the rules of fair [[market]] competition they impose on the underdeveloped ...nt [[them]]. My own [[perception]] of these problems is hopelessly tinted by “outmoded” [[Marxism]]: The four trouble spots [[Ash]] identifies are c
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• The Not-So-Quiet American
  ...the [[nightmare]] called Saddam. To this majority, the caution expressed by [[West]]ern [[liberals]] can only appear deeply hypocritical — do they re ...umanity]]. No wonder many authentic [[theology|theologians]] are appalled by these kinds of statements from [[Bush]], detecting in them a terrifying sac
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• What Is To Be Done (With Lenin)?
  ...the results of their personality, not as the result of being thrown around by [[market]] forces.<br><br> ...rhaps, one should take the risk of abandoning it to the enemy. Where, how, by whom are the key decisions concerning [[global]] social issues made? Are th
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• Will You Laugh for Me, Please?
  ...evision]]. This idea was realized in the guise of a keyboard [[machine]]; by pressing on different keys, it was possible to produce different kinds of l ...This [[role]] can be played not only by [[another]] [[human being]], but by a machine, as in the [[case]] of [[Tibet]]an [[prayer wheel]]s: I put a wri
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• Catastrophes Real and Imagined
  ...National Security Strategy of the [[United States]] of America,” issued by the White House on September 20, the doctrine’s main points are: 1) Ameri ...ared not only by majorities in [[Germany]] and many other states, but also by a considerable percentage of the American people and Congress. Schröder’
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• The Subject Supposed to Loot and Rape
  ...t]] to disappoint them, they pretend to believe so as not to disappoint us by puncturing our belief in their naivety (and to get the presents, of course) ...e <i>did not occur</i>: Non-verified rumors were simply reported as facts by the [[media]]. For example, on September 3, the Superintendent of the New
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• The Liberal Waterloo
  ...e majority, the delegates unanimously approved the [[resolution]] proposed by the Central Committee.” If the vote was unanimous, where then did the mi “[[Democracy]]” is not merely the “power of, by and for the people.” It is not enough to [[claim]] that in a democracy t
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• Revenge of Global Finance
  ...dually sliding into [[Evil]] by giving way to the temptation of [[Power]], by falling under the spell of the evil Emperor. In [[other]] [[words]], Lucas ...sents itself as the remedy against the stress of capitalism's dynamics — by allowing us to uncouple and retain some inner peace — it actually functio
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• Somewhere Over the Rainbow
  ...hat's the Matter with Kansas? How Conservatives Won the Heart of America'' by Thomas Frank. ...nces]], a fight whose outcome is thoroughly [[contingent]], not guaranteed by any [[external]] reference like "objective socio-economic position."
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• The De-Sublimated Object of Post-Ideology
  [[Category:Articles by Slavoj Žižek]]
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• Anxiety: Kierkegaard with Lacan
  ...Law itself is not "[[natural]]," spontaneous, but always-already mediated by the ([[repression]] of the) desire to [[transgress]] it. When we obey the L [[Category:Articles by Slavoj Žižek]]
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• The Constitution is Dead - Long Live Proper Politics
  ...in all this, the very fact that the no in both countries was not sustained by a coherent alternative political vision is the strongest possible condemnat ...elite. It was the fear that people would no longer be so easily convinced by their "post-political" vision.
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• Odradek as a Political Category
  ...s. [[Others]] again believe it to be of [[German]] origin, only influenced by Slavonic. The uncertainty of both [[interpretations]] allows one to assume [[Category:Articles by Slavoj Žižek]]
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• The Politics of Jouissance
  ...an obscure Unnameable. Even [[Nazi]] [[anti-Semitism]] opened up a world: by way of describing the [[present]] critical [[situation]], naming the [[enem ...achieved, unlimited jouissance whose existence is necessarily presupposed by the [[subject]] who imputes it to [[another]] subject, his/her "subject sup
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• The Empty Wheelbarrow
  ...[[workers]], peasants and honest intellectuals" - as if intellectuals are, by their very [[nature]], suspicious, all too free-[[floating]], [[lacking]] a ...ychologists, trying to cope with the [[real]]-[[life]] problems engendered by our "risk [[society]]", aware that old ideological solutions are useless. B
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• A Cup of Decaf Reality
  ...on reality TV is thus the ironic version of this disclaimer recently used by a Slovene [[author]]: "All characters in the following narrative are fictio [[Category:Articles by Slavoj Žižek]]
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• Jews, Christians and other Monsters
  ...self]]-love, a trace of [[natural]] egocentrism from which we must be torn by the religious [[life]]. As long as you [[think]] only salvation, you turn y [[Category:Articles by Slavoj Žižek]]
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• Will You Laugh for Me, Please
  ...role]] can be played not only by [[another]] [[human]] [[being]], but even by a machine, as in the [[case]] of the famous Tibetan "prayer wheels": I put [[Category:Articles by Slavoj Žižek]]
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