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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
  [[Category:Articles by Slavoj Žižek]] [[Category:Slavoj Žižek]]
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• Welcome to the Desert of the Real-3
  [[Category:Articles by Slavoj Žižek]] [[Category:Slavoj Žižek]]
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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
  [[Category:Articles by Slavoj Žižek]] [[Category:Slavoj Žižek]]
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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
  [[Category:Articles by Slavoj Žižek]] [[Category:Slavoj Žižek]]
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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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