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• The Act
  An "[[act]]" is not mere "[[act|behavior]]" -- such as that of all '''[[nature|animals]]''' -- but a uniquely [[act|''human'' act]], "sinc ==Ethics of Psychoanalysis==
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• Jouissance
  ...ing an almost intolerable level of [[excitation]]. Due to the specificity of the French term, it is usually [[left]] untranslated. ...', of ''property'', etc., but it [[lacks]] the ''[[sexual]] connotations'' of the [[French]] word. (''Jouir'' is slang for "to come".) -->
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• Fetish/Fetishistic disavowal
  ...[[religion|primitive religions]]", in which it denoted an inanimate object of worship. ...italist]] societies, [[social]] relations assume the [[illusory]] [[form]] of relations between things ("[[commodity fetishism]]").
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• Fantasy
  ...an unproblematic given in which there is a single objectively correct way of perceiving, but as something which is itself discursively constructed. ...y discursive and imaginative [[nature]] of [[memory]]; [[memory|memories]] of [[past]] events are continually [[being]] reshaped in accordance with [[unc
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• The Indivisible Remainder: An Essay on Schelling and Related Matters
  ...of the passage from the pre-symbolic pulsation of the Real to the universe of logos. ...blind compulsion to repeat which can never be sublated in the ideal medium of language.
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• The Spectre is Still Roaming Around
  Written as the introduction to a 150th commemorative edition of rately. Much of the [[material]] here is a recapitulation of the [[ideas]] in the
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• The Abyss of Freedom
  Žižek, S. and von [[Schelling]], F.W.J. (1975) The Abyss of [[Freedom]] - Ages of the [[World]], Michigan: [[University]] of Michigan Press.
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• Cogito and the Unconscious
  [[Category:Works]] [[Category:Slavoj Žižek]]
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• Revolution at the Gates
  Žižek, S. (ed.) (2002) Revolution at the Gates: Selected Writings of Lenin Continuing with his project to disinter nuggets of political wisdom
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• Gaze and Voice as Love Objects
  This fascinating collection of essays (mainly written by Žižek's co-conspirators in the Slovenian [[school]] of [[Lacan]]) contains two contri-
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• Slavoj Zizek Bibliography
  | Žižek, Slavoj (2006). The Parallax View, Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. || [[image:ParallaxVie | Žižek, Slavoj (1989). The Sublime Object of Ideology, London: Verso. || [[image:SublimeObject.jpg|right|thumb]]
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• Sigmund Freud
  ...eutic [[relationship]] and the presumed [[value]] of [[dream]]s as sources of insight into unconscious desires. He is commonly referred to as "the [[father]] of psychoanalysis" and his [[work]] has been highly influential — popularizi
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• Capitalism
  ...a system of power relations, is described as a society in which every kind of transactional relation is fundamentally exploitative. (Tong, Rosemarie. [ ...as a secondary labor force is an essential and fundamental characteristic of capitalism." (Tong, Rosemarie. Feminist Thought: A More Comprehensive In
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• Cognitivism/Neuroscience
  ...proach to [[mental]] activity that has materialized in the [[development]] of the cognitive [[sciences]]. ...ld of cognitive [[science]] ([[social]] psychology or the [[neurobiology]] of development, for example).
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• Gilles Deleuze
  ...euze''' ((January 18, 1925 - November 4, 1995), [[French]] [[philosopher]] of the late 20th century. From the early 1960s until his [[death]], Deleuze wrote many influential works on [[philosophy]], [[literature]], [[film]], and fine art.
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• Alfred Hitchcock
  ...s of all [[time]], famous for his expert and largely unrivaled [[control]] of pace and suspense throughout his movies. ...tibility of men and [[women]]; Hitchcock's films often take a cynical view of traditional romance.
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• Georg Lukács
  ...[novel]] as a [[literary genre]]. He served briefly as Hungary's Minister of [[Culture]] following the [[1956 Hungarian Revolution]]. ...Budapest]]) ([[1860]]–[[1917]]). Lukács studied at the universities of Budapest and Berlin, receiving his Ph.D. in 1906.
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• Jacques-Alain Miller
  '''Jacques-[[Alain]] Miller''' - the son-in-law of [[France|French]] [[psychoanalysis|psychoanalyst]] [[Jacques Lacan]] (in 19 ...issolution]] of L'Ecole Française de [[Psychanalyse]], and the foundation of L'École de la [[Cause]] Freudienne.
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• Racism
  The [[unconscious]], psychic, aspects of these [[processes]] are exemplary of superegoic structures. ...learly a [[contradiction]] here - if immigrants are [[living]] a [[life]] of luxury on state benefits then they are not [[working]]; if on the [[other]]
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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 Slavoj Zizek, Interviewed by Sabine Reul and Thomas Deichmann.
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• Repeating Lenin (Essay)
  ...therein resides the lesson painfully learned through the [[experience]] of the XXth century totalitarianisms. ...oint on which one cannot and should not concede: today, the actual freedom of [[thought]] means the freedom to question the predominant liberal-democrati
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• Welcome to the Desert of the Real (Essay)
  ...ian]] Real — the Thing [[Antigone]] confronts when he violates the order of the City — to the Bataillean [[excess]]. ...ally on intellectuals: their "[[irrational]]" [[cruelty]] served as a kind of [[ontological]] proof, bearing [[witness]] to the fact that we are dealing
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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. ...peasant barely survive on barren hills, will this not be the ultimate case of the impotent acting out?
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• Self-Deceptions
  ...proclaimed ideals, when you [[encounter]] a person who claims he is cured of any beliefs, accepting [[social]] [[reality]] the way it really is, you sho ...fer to the inherited ethnic belonging, i.e. there was always in it an echo of "Which side did you choose?" (say, the movie director Emir Kusturica, comin
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• Can Lenin Tell Us About Freedom Today
  ...en on Wall Street. What these both Marxes have in common is the [[denial]] of politics proper; the reference to Lenin enables us to avoid these two pitfa ...tage]] [[Saussure]]), Lenin violently displaces Marx, tears his theory out of its original context, planting it in [[another]] historical [[moment]], and
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• Human Rights and Its Discontents
  Slavoj [[Zizek]]: ...ion]] is, I [[claim]], an appropriate [[metaphor]] [for] the participation of individuals in our post-modern [[political]] process. We are all the time a
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• Cynicism as a Form of Ideology
  ...ical mystification]]. The mask is not simply hiding the [[real]] [[state]] of things; the ideological [[distortion]] is written into its very [[essence]] ...ror is naked only beneath his clothes, so if there is an unmasking gesture of psychoanalysis, it is closer to Alphonse Allais's well-known [[joke]], quot
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• The Interpassive Subject
  ...imilar) a king, but because he occupies the place of a king within the set of socio-[[symbolic]] relations; etc.etc. ...decentered other to whom he imputes this belief. All [[concrete]] versions of this "subject supposed to believe" (from small [[children]] for whose sake
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• Reflections of Media and Politic and Cinema
  Reflections of Media and Politic and Cinema Slavoj Zizek, Interviewed by Geert Lovink.
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• Woman is One of the Names-of-the-Father
  ...the figure of the Lady in courtly love not fully fit these determinations of the primordial father? Is she not also a capricious [[Master]] who wants it ...oman (or of the primordial father) provides is the mythical starting point of unbridled fullness whose "primordial repression" constitutes the symbolic o
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• It Doesn't Have to be a Jew
  Slavoj [[Zizek]], Interviewed by Josefina Ayerza. ...porary [[political]] [[discourse]], changed by events such as the altering of [[communist]] regular patterns, should be giving new [[meaning]] to the act
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• Femininity between Goodness and Act
  ...ilm]] which enables us to avoid the fatal misreading of Lacan's [[notion]] of feminine [[jouissance]]. ...saying that in [[exchange]] for his return she would put up with any trial of her [[faith]]. Soon afterwards, as if in answer to her prayers, Jan effecti
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• In His Bold Gaze My Ruin is Writ Large
  ...cks out from the [[totality]] of [[Hitchcock]]'s oeuvre:<ref>Further proof of Hitchcock's personal commitment: he renounced his director's fee for The Wr ...His special attachment to it is attested by the exceptional [[character]] of his cameo-[[appearance]] in the prologue; Hitchcock addresses the viewers d
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• Hidden Prohibitions and the Pleasure Principle
  ...nevertheless how pure desire culminates in the sacrifice of the [[object]] of [[love]]. ...that is not obliged to have recourse to a [[Master signifier]], to a point of order, which is performative.1
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• Ethnic Dance Macabre
  ...ints of capitalism. What is effectively at stake in the [[present]] crisis of post-socialist states is the [[struggle]] for one's [[place]]: who will be ...rrent [[ideological]] designation for the capitalist "inside") in the face of oriental barbarism.
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• The Cyberspace Real
  ...re we to detect in cyberspace the contours of the [[other]] two dimensions of the [[Lacanian]] [[triad]] ISR, [[the Symbolic]] and [[the Real]]? ...les" precisely the effort to establish clearly the contours of a new space of symbolic fictions in which we fully participate in the mode [[disavowal]],
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• Multiculturalism, or, the Cultural Logic of Multinational Capitalism
  ...in its aseptized, benign form, which forecloses the dimension of the Real of the Other's jouissance. [[Category:Articles by Slavoj Žižek]]
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• From Joyce-the-Symptom to the Symptom of Power
  ...ts our reading with a [[surplus]]-enjoyment which is one of the trademarks of [[true]] modernism. ...[[notion]] of marriage does not involve precisely the "pathological" fact of liking a [[particular]] person for no particular [[rational]] [[reason]].
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• Desire:Drive = Truth:Knowledge
  ...upposition, like the second [[stage]] (I am being beaten by my [[father]]) of the [[child]]'s fantasy "A child is being beaten" which, as [[Freud]] empha ...ed, it has never succeeded in becoming [[conscious]]. It is a construction of analysis, but it is no less a [[necessity]] on that account.<ref> [[Sigmund
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• Psychoanalysis in Post-Marxism: The Case of Alain Badiou
  ...harmakon invoked in [[order]] to [[supplement]] the inherent insufficiency of the [[Marxist]] theoretic edifice. ...lysis has always wound up in a justification of failure, in an explanation of why things had to go wrong.
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• The Lesbian Session
  ...eological]] procedure is not to be underestimated: Rand fits into the line of over-conformist authors who undermine the ruling ideological edifice by the ...ringing which enabled her to formulate directly the [[fantasmatic]] kernel of American [[capitalist]] [[ideology]].
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• The Spectre Is Still Roaming Around!
  ...? Isn't [[The Communist Manifesto]], at best, an exaggerated extrapolation of certain tendencies discernible in the 19th century? ...is situation, is not the description in The Manifesto of the social impact of the [[bourgeoisie]] more actual than ever? -
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• When the Party Commits Suicide
  ...re the impact of The Road to Terror, one should start with the [[paradox]] of the revolutionary sacrifice.</p> ...se." In the same way, while most of the political regimes have a dark side of obscene secret [[rituals]] and apparatuses, the Khmer Rouge regime had noth
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• Surplus-Enjoyment Between the Sublime and the Trash
  ...he mysterious and elusive X we are all after in our compulsive consumption of merchandise. ...VER effectively IT, precisely insofar as every satisfaction opens up a gap of "I [[want]] MORE!"
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• Welcome to the Desert of the Real-3
  ...free trade." Wherefore this pact between Fulani, the far-[[left]] espouser of [[Marxist]]-Leninist politics, and Buchanan, a Reaganite cold warrior and t ...[[working class]]." But what is crucial in this tradition is the equation of labor with crime, the [[idea]] that labor, hard work, is originally an inde
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• Run, Isolde, Run
  ...t we can really grasp the narrative [[logic]] of Dickens's great novels or of Madame Bovary. ...ropriate objective correlative, so that, again, it is only with the advent of cyberspace hypertext that we can effectively grasp what Altman and Kieslows
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• Matinee Idols: Joan Bennett
  ...involved with the wretched [[James]] Mason), confirmed not only the allure of her mature beauty but also the unique way her appeal remains the same wheth ...plus she was very short-sighted, unable to discern more than the contours of the [[people]] around her without glasses or lenses, so maybe even an ugly
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• Have Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri Rewritten the Communist Manifesto For the Twenty-First Century
  ...onkey-that is, in [[order]] to deploy the inherent, notional [[structure]] of a social [[formation]], one must start with its most developed form. ...ecological catastrophes, poverty, [[Third]] [[World]] diseases in collapse of social life, mad cow disease.
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• The Leninist Freedom
  ...a polemic against the Menshevik and Socialist-Revolutionaries’ critique of Bolshevik [[power]] in 1922: ..., is in itself a proof of Socialism’s utter failure, i.e. of the failure of the attempt to legitimize Socialist regimes — the term “Really Existing
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• Il n'y a pas de rapport religieux
  ...] of Christ, let us start with Gilles [[Deleuze]]'s exemplary [[analysis]] of Chaplin's late [[films]]: ...g]]," that [[sign]] of age, that small difference of triteness, on account of which the funny clown's [[number]] changes into a tedious [[spectacle]]?<re
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• Seize the Day: Lenin's Legacy
  ...[[birth]] to [[Leninism]]. Consider [[Lenin]]'s shock when, in the autumn of 1914, every European [[social]] democratic party except the Serbs' followed ...inism (1996), "the [[vocabulary]] and grammar of the Western [[tradition]] of [[politics]] was abruptly dispensed with."
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• Homo Sacer in Afghanistan
  ...th [[concrete]] sensible features which make it into an appropriate target of [[hatred]] and struggle. [[Category:Articles by Slavoj Žižek]]
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• Gerhard Schroeder's Minority Report and Its Consequences
  ...ommunists, [[lacks]] even the elementary [[sense]] of survival and respect of his own [[people]], America has the [[right]] to preemptive strikes, i.e., ...u are free to agree with, but not free to disagree — the old [[paradox]] of the [[forced]] [[choice]] is reproduced here, the [[freedom]] to make a cho
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• The Iraq War: Where is The True Danger
  ...even if successful, the attack on Iraq will give a big boost to a new wave of the anti-American [[terrorism]]; (4) Saddam is a murderer and torturer, his ...here of "bringing [[Western democracy]] to Iraq," but just of getting rid of the [[nightmare]] called Saddam. To this majority, the caution expressed by
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• From 'Passionate Attachments' to Dis-Identification
  ...r (Stanford: Stanford UP, 1997). Numbers in parentheses refer to the pages of this book.</ref> ...ply and directly [[identified]] as the [[unconscious]]; the existing order of Power is also supported by unconscious "passionate attachments," attachment
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• You May
  ...tation to ethnic belonging, are more and more often experienced as matters of [[choice]]. Things which once seemed [[self]]-evident - how to feed and edu ...to be cracked 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 g
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• The Stellar Parallax: The Traps of Ontological Difference
  ...ox is thus that the roles are reversed (with regard to the standard notion of the active subject working on the passive object): the subject is defined b ...m means that the reality I see is never "whole" - not because a large part of it eludes me, but because it contains a stain, a blind spot, which signals
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• Hegel - Chesterton: German Idealism and Christianity
  by [[Slavoj Žižek]] ...world, the religion of sublimity."<ref>[[G.W.F. Hegel]], <i>[[Philosophy]] of [[Mind]]</i>, Oxford: Clarendon Press 1971, p. 44.</ref>
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• A Glance into the Archives of Islam
  <b>The Antinomies of Tolerant [[Reason]]</b><BR> ...ent, the location of Islam makes it a fatal obstacle to the [[true]] union of the East and the West – the point made exemplarily by Claude Levi-[[Strau
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• The Obscenity of Human Rights: Violence as Symptom
  ...ral obligation]], into something we ought to do while we fight the inertia of the [[capitalist]] [[present]]. ...dangers, and there is no ultimate [[teleology|teleological]] [[guarantee]] of the outcome, the battle is open, undecided.
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• With or Without Passion
  ...t politely ignored it and staged the [[belief]] in his fidelity... In one of the [[Marx]] brothers' [[films]], [[Groucho Marx]], when caught in a lie, a ...words of the Institution of law) than in the direct reality of the person of judge - if one limits oneself to what one sees, one simply misses the point
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• Move the Underground!
  ..., positive, notes in such a way that one would be able to discern the echo of the accompanying non-played "silent" virtual notes or their absence. ...phobia should therefore not focus primarily on the explicit [[repression]] of homosexuality; it should rather "move the underground," disturb the implici
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• Over the Rainbow Coalition!
  ...clear that we are not covert racists attacking only the [[fundamentalism]] of [[other]] (Muslim) cultures? ...prophet, nonetheless thinks that Jews have a divine [[right]] to the land of [[Israel]]?)
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• Homo Sacer as the Object of the Discourse of the University
  ..., but, rather, the new masters who are no longer ready to assume the title of the Master - "slave" is Nietzsche's term for a fake master. — How, then, ...pparatuses to ideological beliefs) which sustain the "neutral" functioning of the market [[mechanism]].
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• Too Much Democracy?
  ...ome circumstances, at least, put in question the legitimacy of the outcome of a formal democratic procedure? ...le was not yet "mature" enough to be allowed democracy, and that some kind of enlightened despotism whose aim will be to educate the majority into proper
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• Smashing the Neighbor's Face
  ...or. /.../ deceit and veracity already presuppose the absolute authenticity of the face."<ref>[[Levinas]], Emmanuel, ''[[Totality]] and Infinity'', The [[ ...s gesture 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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• Reloaded Revolutions
  ...e ballet-like quality of fights with slow motions and defiance of the laws of ordinary physical reality.<br><br> ...y formal digital universe which generates the false "wealth of experience" of humans caught in the Matrix.)<br><br>
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• Biopolitics: Between Terri Schiavo and Guantanamo
  ...her]] Asian countries. The CIA has not even acknowledged the [[existence]] of these "black sites" with "[[ghost]] prisoners": to do so could open the U.S ...mo sacer]]</i>, the one who can be killed with impunity since, in the eyes of the law, his [[life]] no longer counts.
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• Passion In The Era of Decaffeinated Belief
  ...it clear that we are not covert racists attacking only the fundamentalism of <i>other</i> (Muslim) cultures? ...Jews are collectively not to be blamed for the Crucifixion... The problem of such a stance is that, in this way, the aggressive religious passion is mer
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• The Matrix: The Truth of the Exaggerations
  ...itself, using us as the source of [[energy]]; New Agers see in the source of speculations on how our [[world]] is just a mirage generated by a [[global] ...reality, but first the horrible realization of this enclosure, where each of us is effectively just a foetus-like organism, immersed in the pre-natal fl
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• When Straight Means Weird and Psychosis is Normal
  ...perverted sex and [[violence]] that lurks beneath the respectable surface of our lives. ...rder to reproduce itself. Perhaps, this is one of the possible definitions of postmodern art as opposed to modernist art: in [[postmodernism]], the [[tra
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• Iraq's False Promises
  ...s can explain why the United States thinks that the [[aggressive]] pursuit of contradictory goals-promoting [[democracy]], affirming U.S. [[hegemony]], a ...roken when you borrowed it. Such an enumeration of inconsistent arguments, of course, confirms precisely what it endeavors to deny: that you, in fact, di
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• The Iraqi Borrowed Kettle
  ...I returned you a broken kettle... Now, in June 2003, when, after hundreds of investigators were [[looking]] after the WMD, none were found, the answer t ...the last term in each of the two series [[being]] the same - oil (in each of the two series, this term is given a different ideologico-[[political]] twi
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• What Rumsfeld Doesn't Know That He Knows About Abu Ghraib
  by [[Slavoj Žižek]] ...dad’s [[Abu Ghraib]] prison, we got a glimpse of this very [[dimension]] of themselves that Americans do not control.
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• Some Politically Incorrect Reflections on Violence in France
  ...re not from rich neighborhoods, but were part of the hard-won acquisitions of the very strata from which protesters originate. ...nger of these outbursts residing in the easily predictable racist REACTION of the French populist crowd to them.
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• The Antinomies of Tolerant Reason: A Blood-Dimmed Tide is Loosed
  ...s on the wane. The time has come to look back (as well as into the future, of course) and draw a balance. ...close, this can also give rise to aggressive reaction aimed at getting rid of this disturbing intruder – or, as Peter Sloterdijk put it: “More commun
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• Nobody Has to Be Vile
  ...t]] [[them]] over the [[past]] couple of years. Where did the bright stars of Porto Alegre go? ...e (thrive as entrepreneurs) and eat it (endorse the anti-capitalist causes of [[social]] [[responsibility]], ecological concern etc). There is no [[need]
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• The Two Totalitarianisms
  ...tika]] and other [[Nazi]] [[symbol]]s, a group of [[conservative]] members of the [[Europe]]an Parliament, mostly from ex-[[Communist]] countries, demand ...o need to prove they were [[guilty]], since they were [[guilty]] by virtue of being [[Jews]].
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• Bring Me My Philips Mental Jacket
  ...ed 'human nature', that we are [[born]] with an unfathomable [[dimension]] of ourselves.* ...lessness of a [[life]]-determining [[contingency]]. No wonder the majority of [[people]] (including the [[scientist]] who [[identified]] the gene) choose
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• Knee-Deep
  <i>Free [[World]]: Why a Crisis of the West Reveals the Opportunity of Our [[Time]]</i> by [[Timothy Garton Ash]] ...anything, this is it. The fate of this revolutionary was surely the fate of the [[people]] as a [[whole]] under [[Stalinist]] [[dictatorship]]: the mil
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• Attempts to Escape the Logic of Capitalism
  ...tragedy is thus a cruel, but inexorable one: the direct ethical foundation of politics sooner or later turns into its own comic caricature, adopting the * [[Attempts to Escape the Logic of Capitalism]]. ''[[London]] Review of Books''. Volume 21. [[Number]] 21. October 28, 1999. <http://www.lrb.co.uk/
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• Are We in a War
  ...life by stern [[discipline]] and [[punishment]]. What if the [[true]] aim of the [[present]] Israeli intrusion into Palestinian territory is not to prev ...ns, Afghans), as well as to the Sans Papiers in France and the inhabitants of the favelas in [[Brazil]] or the African American ghettoes in the US.
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• Biography of Slavoj Zizek
  [[Slavoj Žižek:Biography#1910|1901]] · [[Slavoj Žižek:Biography#1910|1901]] ·
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• No Subject - Articles
  :[[Death Drive]] -- [[Desire]] -- [[Jouissance]] -- [[Name of the Father]] -- [[Objet petit a]] -- [[Oedipus Complex]] -- [[Pleasure Prin ...[[Jacques Lacan]] -- [[Jacques-Alain Miller]] -- [[Marquis de Sade]] -- [[Slavoj Žižek]]
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• Thanks, But We’ll Do It Ourselves
  By Slavoj [[Zizek]] ...ey will [[return]] to the seclusion of their community. Indeed, 90 percent of the children do exactly that.
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• Ludwig Wittgenstein
  ...d]]. He is widely regarded as one of the most influential [[philosophers]] of the 20th century. [[Category:Slavoj Žižek|Wittgenstein, Ludwig]]
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• Blade Runner
  ...her and David Peoples, is loosely based on the novel Do Androids [[Dream]] of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick. The film features Harrison Ford, Rutger ...rth. The film primarily focuses on a particularly brutal and cunning group of replicants hiding in Los Angeles and a semi-retired blade runner, named Ric
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• Richard Wagner
  == In the work of Slavoj Žižek == ...storical context. Rather, it comes from the conviction that Wagner’s own works undermine his [[explicit]] [[ideological]] [[project]].
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• Parallax View
  ...f, the highest act of [[freedom]] is the display of ''amor fati'', the act of freely assuming what is otherwise necessary. ...at its most radical that which objects, that which disturbs the smooth run of things.
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• The Liberal Communists of Porto Davos
  ...legre reunions seem to have lost their impetus. Where did the bright stars of Porto Alegre go? ...ofitable entrepreneurs) and eat it too (endorse the anti-capitalist causes of social [[responsibility]], ecological concerns, etc.). No [[need]] for Port
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• Jack Bauer and the Ethics of Urgency
  ...and-held camera shots and [[split]]-screens showing the concurrent actions of various characters. ...m like the ongoing action is so pressing, spilling over into the real time of the [[spectator]], that even commercial breaks cannot interupt it.
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• Give Iranian Nukes a Chance
  ==''In a Mad World, the Logic of MAD Still Works''== But are nuclear arms in the hands of Iran's rulers really a threat to international peace and security? To answ
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• Thanks, But We'll Do It Ourselves
  ...y will [[return]] to the seclusion of their community. Indeed, 90 percent of the children do exactly that. ...them to have a truly free choice, they would have to be properly informed of and educated about all their options. However, the only way to do this wou
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• The Pope's Failures
  [[Pope]] [[John Paul II]]’s reaction to [[Mel Gibson]]’s <i>[[The Passion of the Christ]]</i> is well known. Immediately after [[seeing]] it, he murmur ...an “[[ethics]] without violence,” a sort of permanent (re)negotiation of ethical [[norms]]. It is here where the highest [[cultural critique]] unex
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• How Much Democracy Is Too Much?
  ...ch [[guarantee]] that [[antagonisms]] are fully absorbed into the “rules of the [[game]].”’’’ ...not, in some circumstances, put in question the legitimacy of the outcome of a formal democratic procedure?’’’
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• The Desert of the Real
  =Is this the end of fantasy?= expression to the unreality of American daily [[life]], exemplified in
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• Today, Iraq. Tomorrow ... Democracy?
  =Much more is at stake in this war than the future of Saddam Hussein= ...e of "bringing [[West]]ern [[democracy]] to Iraq," but of just getting rid of the nightmare called [[Saddam]]. To this majority, the caution expressed b
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• Ideology Reloaded
  ...universalized [[process]] of [[recognition]], like the proverbial painting of God that seems always to stare directly at you from wherever you look at it ...of (what they falsely consider to be) reality—in short, the [[position]] of the [[cinema]] spectators themselves.<br><br>
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• Learning To Love Leni Riefenstahl
  ...arted shooting documentaries [[about]] the strange life in the dark depths of the sea.<br><br> ...oes this not apply also to her [[personality]]? It seems that the [[fear]] of those who are fascinated by Leni is no longer “When will she die?” but
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• Passion: Regular or Decaf?
  ...r that we are not covert [[racist]]s attacking only the [[fundamentalism]] of other ([[Muslim]]) [[culture]]s? ...]] are collectively not to be blamed for the [[Crucifixion]]. The problem of such a stance is that it merely [[repress]]es [[aggressive]] [[religious]]
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