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• Kid A In Alphabet Land - About
  '''Holy Merdre! It's... ...A In Alphabet Land'' is intended to bring the set to a wider audience than it otherwise might reach. I've considered linking the in-line graphics to larg
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• Gaze
  <blockquote>My fundamental connection with the Other-as-subject must be able to be referred back to my permanent possibility of ''[ ...nce of two ocular globes in my direction. But the look will be given just as well on occasion when there is a rustling of branches, or the sound of a fo
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• Voice
  ...the [[body]]. This is just [[another]] example of how a [[conservative]], as if he were afraid of the new medium, has a much better grasp of its [[uncan ...el' or 'Kartoffelstrudel'. And this was an ingenious insight; how voice is like a kind of a spectral ghost. All this became [[apparent]] to those conservat
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• Lenin (revolutionary)
  ...in theorist of what has come to be called [[Leninism]], which is described as an [[adaptation]] of [[Marxism]] to "the age of [[imperialism]]." ...his radicalized Lenin. His official Soviet biographies have this [[event]] as central to his revolutionary exploits. A famous painting by Belousov, [http
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• Louis Althusser
  ...] in the European [[Communist]] Parties. Althusser is commonly referred to as a [[Structural Marxism|Structural Marxist]], although his [[relationship]] ...s. This is most [[apparent]] in Žižek’s conception of [[ideology]], as it is at least partially against the backdrop of Althusser’s own conception
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• Fetish/Fetishistic disavowal
  ...n the context of the study of "[[religion|primitive religions]]", in which it denoted an inanimate object of worship. It was Krafft-Ebing who, in the last decade of the nineteenth century, first a
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• Id
  ...wed the term ''[[das Es]]'' (which the ''[[Standard Edition]]'' translates as "[[the Id]]") from Georg Groddeck, one of the first [[German]] [[psychiatry ...rehended signifier. It is already there, but it is made of the signifier, it is not some kind of primitive and confused property relevant to some kind o
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• Ethics
  ...asserts that [[ethics|ethical thought]] "is at the centre of our [[work]] as [[analysts]],"<ref>{{S7}} p. 38</ref> and a [[whole]] year of his [[seminar Simplifying matters somewhat, it could be said that [[ethics|ethical problems]] converge in [[psychoanalytic
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• Return to Freud
  ...]] in our [[mental]] lives, psychoanalysis had made itself respectable but it had lost its radical edge. In the early 1950s, therefore, Lacan famously de ...]] ([[IPA]]), the organization founded by [[Freud]] which presented itself as the sole legitimate heir to the ''[[Freudian]] legacy''.
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• End of analysis
  <blockquote>"Is there such a [[thing]] as a [[natural]] end to an analysis?"<ref>{{F}} ''[[Sigmund Freud:Bibliography ...[[progress|logical process]] with a beginning and an end-point, designated as the "[[end of analysis]]".
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• Art
  [[Freud]] valued [[art]] as one of [[human]]ity's great [[culture|cultural]] [[civilization|institution Like [[Freud]], [[Lacan]] devotes most of his attention to [[art|works of litera
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• Absence
  ...pt upon an assumed foundation of absence. Nothing exists except insofar as it does not [[exist]]."<ref>{{Ec}} p.392</ref></blockquote> ...e>"There is no absence in [[The Real|the real]]. There is only absence if you [[suggest]] that there may be a presence there where there isn't one."<ref>
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• Desire of the analyst
  ...a "'''[[subject supposed to know|subject supposed to desire]]'''" (as well as a "[[subject supposed to know]]"). The task of the [[analyst]] throughout the [[treatment]] is to make it [[impossible]] for the [[analysand]] to be sure that he [[knows]] what the
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• Fragmented body
  ...ts own [[body]] (which [[lack]]s [[motor coordination]] at this [[stage]]) as [[division|divided]] and [[fragmentation|fragmented]]. ...[the [[subject]]] is originally an inchoate collection of desires - there you have the [[true]] sense of the expression fragmented body."<ref>{{S3}} p.39
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• Truth
  ...losophy]], that [[truth]] is not beautiful<ref>{{S7}} p.217</ref> and that it is not necessarily beneficial to learn the [[truth]].<ref>{{S17}} p.122</re ...truth]]" in the [[singular]], not as a single [[universal]] [[truth]], but as [[particular]] [[truth]], unique to each [[subject]].<ref>{{S7}} p.24</ref>
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• Punctuation
  ...]. Before [[punctuation]], there is simply a [[chain]] of [[discourse]]. It is the [[punctuation|listener]]/[[punctuation|receiver]] who [[punctuates]] ...ion]], where "the sender receives his own [[message]] from the receiver." It is illustrated in the "[[graph of desire|elementary cell]]" of the [[graph
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• Resistance
  ...began to play an increasingly important part in [[psychoanalytic theory]] as a result of the decreasing efficacy of [[analytic treatment]] in the decade As a consequence of this, [[ego-psychology]] placed increasing importance on o
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• Shifter
  For example the pronouns "I" and "you", as well as [[words]] like "here" and "now", and the tenses, can only be [[understood]] by reference t ...fines the [[shifter]] as an [[index]]ical [[symbol]], [[Lacan]] defines it as an [[index]]ical [[signifier]].
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• Community Portal2
  ...bout|No Subject]] [[right]] now. If you haven't done so already, [[You May|you may]] [[want]] to [[Special:Userlogin|create an account]], which provides a ...t, please see our [[Help:Contents|help pages]] which will explain anything you [[need]] to [[know]].''' For discussions of current operations, policies, t
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• Community Portal3
  ...we can build a [[library]] of No [[Subject]] - free and open textbooks. You can help [[No Subject]] by [[Help:Editing|editing]], [[Help:Starting a new ...[w:en:Wiki|wiki]] works. If you [[Special:Userlogin|create an account]], you can track your changes [[Wikipedia:Why create an account?|and more]]. To a
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• Jacques Lacan:Chronology
  ...engthy committee investigation, the [[SFP]] is granted [[IPA]] affiliation as a member [[society]] on condition that [[Lacan]] be removed from the [[list ...lved and the '''[[École de la Cause freudienne]]''' is created to replace it.
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• Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Lacan (But Were Afraid to Ask Hitchcock)
  [[Image:Everything.You.Always.Wanted.To.Know.About.Lacan.jpg|300px|right]] ...most banal [[content]], it is Alfred [[Hitchcock]] (and - useless to deny it - this book partakes unrestrainedly in this [[madness]]).'
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• Quick index
  The '''Quick [[index]]''' allows you to look up a topic or article by its first two letters. For topics or artic |[http://www.ganfyd.org/index.php?title=Special:Allpages&from=As As]
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• The Subject
  What is the [[subject]] and why is it so important? ...substantial, [[transparent]] and fully [[self]]-[[conscious]] ‘i’, but as an empty [[space]], what is [[left]] when the rest of the [[world]] is expe
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• Freud's papers on technique
  .....if the [[subject]] commits himself to searching after [[truth]] as such, it is because he places himself in the [[dimension]] of [[ignorance]], what [[ ...se the subject refuses to recognize it as his, refuses to recognize him in it. Dénégation includes an assertion whose status is difficult to define. Th
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• Seminar V
  ...message]]." In this [[lack]] [[substitute]] [[word]]s appear and function like "the [[metonymic]] ruins of the [[object]]." ...The [[subject]] never is, it will have been - either it is not yet here or it is no longer here, since there is only a trace of its [[absence]]."
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• Seminar IX
  ...i>[[Le transfert]]</i> [[Lacan]] describes [[symbolic]] [[identification]] as [[identification]] with the [[signifier]]. Here, he examines the rapport o # A [[primitive]] [[identification]] with the [[father]] as such based on a single feature: the [[matrix]] of the [[Ideal]]-of-the-Ego,
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• The four fundamental concepts of psychoanalysis
  ...e of the unconscious" or a "conjectural science of the subject" - what can it teach us about science? ...‘’Les fondements de la psychanalyse’’, which implies neither that it is a matter of concepts, nor that there are only four of [[them]].
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• Seminar XVI
  ...the <i>[[trait]] unitaire</i> of <i>L'[[identification]]</i> and <i>a</i> as follows:<br> ...hat <i>jouissance</i> is real but cannot be [[symbolized]], on the Phallus as a [[symbol]] that is [[lacking]] or [[outside]] [[system]], and the [[repet
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• The reverse of psychoanalysis
  ...d the [[Name]]-of-the-Father which "is positioned where knowledge [[acts]] as truth. [[Psychoanalysis]] consolidates the law." ...penly into play. [[Castration]] is "the [[deprivation]] of woman," insofar as "she would fulfill herself in the smallest [[signifier]]." Woman is [[absen
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• Seminar I
  ...ubject|the subject]] commits himself to searching after [[truth]] as such, it is because he places himself in the [[dimension]] of [[ignorance]], what [[ ...[subject]] refuses to recognize it as his, refuses to recognize himself in it. ''Dénégation'' includes an assertion whose status is difficult to defin
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• Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality
  ...as the driving force of both neuroses (through repression) and perversion. It also included the concepts of [[penis envy]], [[castration anxiety]], and t ...cussed sexuality in infancy and childhood. From a present-day perspective, it is difficult to imagine the vehement reactions provoked by suggesting the e
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• Future of an Illusion
  ==Religion as an illusion== ...[[impossible]]. The fact that it is grounded in her wishes is what makes it an illusion.
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• Civilization and Its Discontents
  ...s most important and most-read works, though today it is usually read more as a "[[cultural artifact]]" than for its theories. ...]'s quest for [[freedom]] and [[society]]'s [[demand]] for [[conformity]]. As a result, civilization, or its culture, inhibits man's [[instinctual]] [[dr
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• Seminar XI
  ...[[unconscious]]" or a "conjectural science of the [[subject]]" - what can it teach us about science? ...l study of Freud's [[dream]] about the dead son screaming "[[Father, can't you see I'm burning?]]" The main problem remains that of transference: the [[Na
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• Sigmund Freud
  ...the therapeutic [[relationship]] and the presumed [[value]] of [[dream]]s as sources of insight into unconscious desires. ...mbolism]] — while also making a long-lasting impact on fields as diverse as [[literature]] ([[Kafka]]), [[film]], [[Marxism|Marxist]] and [[feminist]]
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• Mathematics
  ...[[linguistics]], using a [[Saussure]]an-inspired [[model]] of [[language]] as a [[system]] of [[signifiers]]. # The second approach is to describe it in terms borrowed from [[mathematics]].
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• Deconstruction
  ...], and frameworks that [[form]] the basis for [[thought]] and [[belief]]. It has various shades of meaning in different areas of study and [[discussion] ...n'' to [[Jacques Derrida|Jacques Derrida's]] ''dé[[construction]]''), and it has been explored by [[others]], including [[Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak]],
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• Alfred Hitchcock
  ...and François Truffaut, were among the first to see and promote his films as artistic masterworks. Hitchcock was one of the first directors to whom they ...ich had previously been eclipsed by that of the producer. He is seen today as a director who managed to combine art and entertainment in a way very few h
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• Søren Kierkegaard
  ...between what Kierkegaard truly believed and what he was merely arguing for as part of a pseudo-[[author]]'s [[position]]. [[Ludwig Wittgenstein]] remark ...ch wished that he might live a few years longer, and I look upon his death as the last sacrifice which he made to his [[love]] for me; ... he died for me
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• Multiculturalism
  Isn't it symptomatic that multiculturalism exploded at the very historic [[moment]] ...tation are converted into problems of [[cultural]] [[tolerance]]. And then you have only to make one step further, that of [[Julia Kristeva]] in her essay
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• Tolerance
  Isn't it symptomatic that [[multiculturalism]] exploded at the very historic [[momen ...ploitation are converted into problems of [[cultural]] tolerance. And then you have only to make one step further, that of [[Julia Kristeva]] in her essay
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• Jacques Lacan:Sexual Difference
  In this late phase Lacan continutes to develop masculinity and femininity as structures that are available to both men and women and not related to one' .... In this late phase Lacan continues to develop masculinity and femininity as structures that are available to both men and women and not related to one'
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• Femininity
  ...a]]. Fink also remains unclear why this Other jouissance should be defined as feminine (2002:40). ...ystics consists in saying that they experience it, but [[know]] nothing of it.<ref>1998 [1975]: 76</ref></blockquote>
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• Lacanian Psychoanalysis
  ...rxism]] without any reference to Hegel’s absolute subject, he sees Lacan as trying to [[think]] psychoanalysis without any reference to a [[unified]] c A few years later, during the May ‚68 uprising, it was felt by many
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• Jacques Lacan:Oedipus
  ...of this [[complex]] in his Introductory Lectures (Twenty-First Lecture): "You all [[know]] the Greek legend of King [[Oedipus]], who was destined by fate ...r the [[death]] of the [[rivalry|rival]], the parent of the same sex, and, as the [[sexual]] [[desire]] for the parent of the opposite sex.
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• Jacques Lacan:Real
  ...hough he also carried over the preceding definitions and functions. Hence, like many of Lacan's concepts, a consideration of the real forces us to reapprai ...conceptualized in opposition to [[the imaginary]] of the [[mirror]] phase. As 'being-in-itself', the real was beyond the realm of [[appearance]] and [[im
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• Book of Job
  ...be punishing you (even if you are unaware of your sin), God may be testing you and so on. ...sn’t have a deeper meaning, it means we can [[change]] it; fight against it.
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• Ethics and Politics
  ...itional injunction and the always [[contingent]] failed interventions that you make. ...alted just as the messianic [[utopian]] dimension inherent to [[language]] as such and so on.
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• Liberalism
  ...freedoms are increasingly reduced to the freedom to choose your lifestyle. You can even choose your ethnic [[identity]] up to a point. ...comes the [[postmodern]] ideologist: 'Oh, but this is just a new freedom, you can reinvent yourself every two years!'
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• The One Measure of True Love Is: You Can Insult the Other
  The One Measure of True Love is: You Can Insult the Other ...cyberspace. What we are witnessing today is a radical redefinition of what it means to be a human being.<br class="NetscapeDummy"/><br class="NetscapeDum
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• The passion of the real
  ...s by Ernst Jnger, in which he praises this eye-to-eye combat experience as the authentic one. ...ea]] is: it's only through this [[pain]] and when you feel warm blood that you feel reconnected again. So I think that this tension is the background agai
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• Cyberspace
  ...cyberspace. What we are witnessing today is a radical redefinition of what it means to be a human [[being]]. ...ally new constellation. It is not private, but also it is also not public. It is not the old exhibitionist gesture.
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• Cutter
  ...ea]] is: it's only through this [[pain]] and when you feel warm blood that you feel reconnected again. So I [[think]] that this tension is the background
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• Postmodernity
  ...e seem to live more and more with the [[thing]] deprived of its substance. You get beer without alcohol, meat without fat, coffee without caffeine…and e Virtual [[reality]] to me is the climax of this [[process]]: you now get reality without reality…or a totally regulated reality. But there
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• Postmodern Racism
  ...hat every culture is artificially constructed. In [[France]], for example, you have a neo-fascist right that refers to the deconstructionists, saying: 'Ye ...f the mainstream, not an eccentric freak. Now, their reaction was the same as the Arabs', though he did retract a couple of days later. Falwell said the
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• Clash of Civilizations
  ...hat every culture is artificially constructed. In [[France]], for example, you have a neo-fascist right that refers to the deconstructionists, saying: 'Ye ...f the mainstream, not an eccentric freak. Now, their reaction was the same as the Arabs', though he did retract a couple of days later. Falwell said the
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• Victimization
  ...of [[violence]], when you say: 'I love you, I [[want]] you.' In no way can you bypass this violent aspect. So I even [[think]] that the [[fear]] of sexual ...ou, how interesting your customs are' — this is inverted [[racism]], and it is disgusting.
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• Freedom
  ...freedoms are increasingly reduced to the freedom to choose your lifestyle. You can even choose your ethnic [[identity]] up to a point. ...comes the [[postmodern]] ideologist: 'Oh, but this is just a new freedom, you can reinvent yourself every two years!'
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• Violence
  ...hy, he says: 'I [[know]] I lost it over there, but it's easier to look for it here.' ...ce never helps?' It is simply a fact that at some point you have to fight. You have to [[return]] violence with violence. The problem is not that for me,
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• Repeating Lenin (Essay)
  ...he [[alienation]] and [[reification]] of our daily lives -, but Lenin, no, you can't be serious! The [[working]] [[class]] movement, revolutionary Party, ...ion the predominant liberal-democratic "post-ideological" consensus — or it means nothing.
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• Welcome to the Desert of the Real (Essay)
  ...[[World]] War I, Carl [[Schmitt]] was celebrating the face to face combat as the authentic [[intersubjective]] [[encounter]]: authenticity resides in th ...the Real, not just with empty plans — the Party is ruthlessly brutal, so it means business…
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• Self-Deceptions
  ...red of any beliefs, accepting [[social]] [[reality]] the way it really is, you should always counter such claims with a simple, yet intricate question: Wh ...d ethnic belonging, i.e. there was always in it an echo of "Which side did you choose?" (say, the movie director Emir Kusturica, coming from an ethnically
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• Can Lenin Tell Us About Freedom Today
  ...the Marx who foretold the [[dynamic]] of today's [[globalization]] and is as such evoked even on Wall Street. What these both Marxes have in common is t ...t in [[another]] historical [[moment]], and thus effectively universalizes it.
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• The Matrix, or, Two Sides of Perversion
  ...he all the [[time]] disturbed [[other]] spectators with loud exclamations, like "My God, wow, so there is no [[reality]]!"… I definitely prefer such naiv ...alternative is false? What if the virtual character of the symbolic order "as such" is the very condition of historicity?
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• Human Rights and Its Discontents
  Thank you for the kind invitation. ...ney. When we push this button the door closes in exactly the same [[time]] as when we just press the floor button without speeding up the [[process]] by
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• Kant and Sade: The Ideal Couple
  ...g, as is implied by Pasolini's [[film]] version of Saló, which transposes it into the dark days of Mussolini's Salo republic? Lacan developed this link ...[[subject]]'s deadlock, his inability to meet its inexorable [[demands]], like the proverbial teacher who tortures pupils with [[impossible]] tasks and se
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• The Interpassive Subject
  ...ture of socio-[[economic]] relations; we do not relate to a certain person as to a "king" because this person is "in himself" (on account of his charisma ...der]] of pure [[semblance]], so that the subject never "really believed in it"; from the very beginning, the subject refers to some decentered other to w
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• Reflections of Media and Politic and Cinema
  GL: You have been to Japan. What's your opinion on the technological culture in thi ...: the semiotic Japan. The empty signs, no Western metaphysics of presence. It's a no less phantasmic Japan then the first one. We know that Eisenschtein
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• It Doesn't Have to be a Jew
  It Doesn't Have to be a Jew ...ERZA: The contemporary [[political]] [[discourse]], changed by events such as the altering of [[communist]] regular patterns, should be giving new [[mean
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• In His Bold Gaze My Ruin is Writ Large
  ...real]] [[life]]. This prologue sounds like an implicit apology-"sorry, but you will not get the usual comic-thriller stuff here, things are for real, I sh ...est]], one has to take into account the strict [[concept]] of "[[sadism]]" as elaborated by [[Lacan]]. In "[[Kant]] with [[Sade]]," Lacan proposed two sc
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• Hidden Prohibitions and the Pleasure Principle
  ...going to arrive in Western [[Europe]] and the USA in no [[time]]. What do you [[think]] may happen to local regional cultures? ...ut the [[Master]] signifier — in [[speech]]-act [[theory]] we would call it the "[[order]] of the [[performative]]." I think this was the ultimate Spin
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• Ethnic Dance Macabre
  ...developed" — those to whom [[human]] rights, [[social]] security and the like apply — and the [[others]], the excluded. ...the "developed" is to contain the explosive potential of the rest, even if it means the neglect of elementary democratic principles. This opposition, not
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• For a Leftist Appropriation of the European Legacy
  ...ial]] [[space]], so that their claims would have a legitimate [[place]] in it. Ranciere's last book, La mesentente,l provides a definite formulation of t ...injustice into the ultimate [[test]] of universality, and, simultaneously, as the operator which will bring about the establishment of a post-political r
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• The Cyberspace Real
  ...reason]] deprived of our [[freedom]], caught in a demoniac [[compulsion]]. It is thus crucial to establish the rules that engage us, that led us in our i ...l, constrained only by its [[self]]-imposed rules? In this comic universe, as in a perverse [[ritual]], same gestures and scenes are endlessly repeated,
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• From Joyce-the-Symptom to the Symptom of Power
  ...in no way diminishes our [[enjoyment]] in the work — quite the contrary, it supplements our reading with a [[surplus]]-enjoyment which is one of the tr ...minations and should as such be independent of personal idiosyncrasies — as if the very [[notion]] of marriage does not involve precisely the "patholog
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• Psychoanalysis in Post-Marxism: The Case of Alain Badiou
  ...ociety]] of consumption" in the 1960s? In short, psychoanalysis functioned as an ambiguous (necessary but dangerous) pharmakon invoked in [[order]] to [[ ...t provide access to the specific [[dimension]] of the political; useful as it is in clarifying the [[libidinal]] foundation of a [[multitude]] of "[[regr
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• The Lesbian Session
  ...ruling ideological edifice by their very excessive [[identification]] with it. ...ism, what [[Brecht]] was to [[Communism]], Rand is to American capitalism. It was perhaps her Russian origins and upbringing which enabled her to formula
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• When the Party Commits Suicide
  ...omination: the great purges are put in their context, rendered [[visible]] as the result of the way the top [[nomenklatura]] (mis)perceived their [[situa ...which directly treats ITSELF as an anonymous, [[secret]], hidden [[body]]. As such, the Khmer Rouge [[regime]] was a kind of [[political]] equivalent to
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• Surplus-Enjoyment Between the Sublime and the Trash
  ...t of [[satisfied]] calm), that Coke functions as the direct embodiment of "IT," of the pure [[surplus]] of [[enjoyment]] over standard satisfactions, of ...'s it" precisely insofar as that's NEVER effectively IT, precisely insofar as every satisfaction opens up a gap of "I [[want]] MORE!"
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• Have Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri Rewritten the Communist Manifesto For the Twenty-First Century
  ...bal capitalism in its "postindustrial", digitalized [[form]], that, to put it in [[Hegelian]] [[terms]], really existing capitalism is reaching the level ...ath, its own mad dance, irrespective of the [[real]] needs of real people. It may appear that this [[analysis]] is more than actual today when the tensio
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• The Leninist Freedom
  ...attacking us, then you will have only yourselves to blame if we treat you as the worst and most pernicious white guard elements."” ...] when the only legitimizing [[reason]] for Socialism was a mere fact that it [[exists]] . . . “
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• Seize the Day: Lenin's Legacy
  ...ratic party except the Serbs' followed the 'patriotic line'. How difficult it must have been, at a [[time]] when military [[conflict]] had cut the Europe ...tial of The State and [[Revolution]] can't be overestimated: in its pages, as Neil Harding wrote in Leninism (1996), "the [[vocabulary]] and grammar of t
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• A Plea for Leninist Intolerance
  ...at may disturb the [[public]] (say, a person whose choice is to be and act as a racist is a priori excluded). ...ice-whose [[difference]]-does make a difference. Phenomena like these make it all the more necessary today to reassert [[Lenin]]'s opposition of "[[forma
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• Gerhard Schroeder's Minority Report and Its Consequences
  ...ions for such attacks, it should reserve the right to act independently if it will not get sufficient international support. ...underlying [[message]] is always "we will do it with or without you," i.e. you are free to agree with, but not free to disagree — the old [[paradox]] of
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• The Iraq War: Where is The True Danger
  ...ld give inspectors more [[time]], since inspectors are more efficient; (2) it is all really about the control of oil and American hegemony — the [[true ...as a [[child]] with hurt [[feelings]] because of the ingratitude of those it selflessly helped.
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• From 'Passionate Attachments' to Dis-Identification
  ...raints of compulsory [[heterosexuality]] and reduces all [[resistance]] to it to [[imaginary]] [[misrecognition]]. And if one does effectively break up t ...t the site of this resistance cannot be simply and directly [[identified]] as the [[unconscious]]; the existing order of Power is also supported by uncon
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• You May
  ...se oneself - have now been "colonised" by reflexivity, and are experienced as something to be learned and decided on. ...racy]]. Believing there is a code to be cracked is of course much the same as believing in the [[existence]] of some Big Other: in every [[case]] what is
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• The Stellar Parallax: The Traps of Ontological Difference
  ...he passive object): the subject is defined by a fundamental passivity, and it is the object from which movement comes, i.e., which does the tickling. But ...t because it contains a stain, a blind spot, which signals my inclusion in it.<br><br>
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• Hegel - Chesterton: German Idealism and Christianity
  ..., contemplated as existent in immediately sensuous mode but is apprehended as the one infinite [[sublime]] [[Power]] beyond all the [[multiplicity]] of t ...tiation into the One - its lesson is that, in [[order]] to have truly One, you [[need]] THREE.
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• A Glance into the Archives of Islam
  ...ism]]: much more than belonging to the Orient, the location of Islam makes it a fatal obstacle to the [[true]] union of the East and the West – the poi ...more [[Christian]] insofar as we were to mount beyond Christianity itself. It is then that the West has lost its [[chance]] to remain [[woman]]. [[A Glan
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• The Obscenity of Human Rights: Violence as Symptom
  ...[global]] capitalism will just go on indefinitely, is [[false]] insofar as it turns revolution into a [[moral obligation]], into something we ought to do ...[Adorno]]'s and [[Horkheimer]]'s "[[dialectic of Enlightenment]]," as well as, today, with [[Agamben]]: the "[[totalitarianism|totalitarian]]" potentials
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• With or Without Passion
  ...films]], [[Groucho Marx]], when caught in a lie, answers angrily: "Whom do you believe, your eyes or my [[words]]?"<br><br> ...pectfully, since he wears the insignia of a judge, so that when he speaks, it is the Law itself which speaks through him". So, in a way, I effectively b
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• Move the Underground!
  ...[[fantasy]] [[scene]] was never [[conscious]] and has to be reconstructed as the [[missing]] link between the first and the last scene). Schumann brings ...efore not focus primarily on the explicit [[repression]] of homosexuality; it should rather "move the underground," disturb the implicit homosexual pract
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• Over the Rainbow Coalition!
  ...t? Is such an unambiguous attack not a sine qua non if we [[want]] to make it clear that we are not covert racists attacking only the [[fundamentalism]] ...ical secular Jew who, although he does not believe in Jehova and [[Moses]] as his prophet, nonetheless thinks that Jews have a divine [[right]] to the la
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• Opera
  ...emark that what is [[lacking]] in [[German]] [[history]] are more gestures like Siegmund's.<br><br> ...Alberich, the key person of Flimm's staging which presents the <i>Ring</i> as a drama of corrupted [[state]] [[power]] (Udo Bermbach was Flimm's [[offici
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• Homo Sacer as the Object of the Discourse of the University
  ...e scornfully dismisses "slave morality," he is not attacking lower classes as such, but, rather, the new masters who are no longer ready to assume the ti ...o advocates strong budgetary measures (cutting [[welfare]] expenses, etc.) as a [[necessity]] imposed by his neutral expertise devoid of any [[ideologica
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• Smashing the Neighbor's Face
  ..., whose epiphany itself is somehow a [[word]] of honor. Every [[language]] as an [[exchange]] of [[verbal]] [[signs]] refers already to this primordial w ...par excellence? Was He not the hostage who took the place of all of us and as such exemplarily [[human]] ("ecce homo")?
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• Biopolitics: Between Terri Schiavo and Guantanamo
  ...sible]] for the Sept. 11 attacks, or who posed an imminent [[threat]]; but as the CIA began apprehending more [[people]] whose intelligence [[value]] and ...an [[being]] [[dead]]... This reasoning tells more than it intends to say: it puts the prisoner almost literally into the [[position]] of [[living]] dead
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• Passion In The Era of Decaffeinated Belief
  ...Is such an unambiguous attack not a <i>sine qua non</i> if we want to make it clear that we are not covert racists attacking only the fundamentalism of < ...s that, in this way, the aggressive religious passion is merely repressed: it remains there, smoldering beneath the surface and, finding no release, gets
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