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• From 'Passionate Attachments' to Dis-Identification
  ...elled into the [[void]] of [[psychosis]]. Since the main proponent of this criticism is [[Judith]] [[Butler]], let me focus on her latest book, The [[Psychic]] ...conscious is any less [[structured]] by the power relations that pervade [[cultural]] [[signifiers]] than is the [[language]] of the subject? If we find an att
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• The Stellar Parallax: The Traps of Ontological Difference
  ...Strauss wants to make is that this example should in no way entice us into cultural relativism, according to which the perception of social space depends on th ...subaltern position it leaves you in, can be effaced by the reassuring and 'cultural' notion that you can fashion your own modernity differently, so that there
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• Christians, Jews and Other Criminals: A Critique of Jean-Claude Milner
  ...ean Union]] is getting more and more anti-Semitic, in its blatantly biased criticism of Israel: the very [[concept]] of Europe is tainted with anti-Semitism, wh ...identity at the level of Milner's Four-Fold, i.e., through its founding [[cultural]] [[myths]] and [[rituals]] which are transferred from generation to genera
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• Is There a Proper Way to Remake a Hitchcock Film?
  ...adlock of contemporary subjectivity than a dozen of essays in [[cultural]] criticism. That is to say, it may appear that we are dealing with the well-known spli
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• Some Politically Incorrect Reflections on Violence in France
  ...nly makes them more furious and feeds their resentment. The problem is not cultural [[difference]] (their effort to preserve their identity), but the opposite ...is the obverse of the decadent excessive sensuality - therein resides his criticism of Wagner's <i>Parsifal</i>, and, more generally, of the late Romantic deca
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• The Antinomies of Tolerant Reason: A Blood-Dimmed Tide is Loosed
  Was, however, that what triggered such violent reactions really the cultural gap between the secular West and the Muslim countries, i.e., the fact that ...nly makes them more furious and feeds their resentment. The problem is not cultural difference (their effort to preserve their identity), but the opposite fact
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• Oedipus complex
  ...ted that the Oedipus complex was a universal, trans-historical and trans-[[cultural]] phenomenon: <blockquote>[T]he Oedipus complex is the nuclear complex of [ ...[Freud]]'s, his only originality [[being]] to emphasize its historical and cultural relativity, taking his cue from the anthropological studies by Malinowski a
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• Roger Caillois
  ...[[intellectual]] whose idiosyncratic [[work]] brought together [[literary criticism]], [[sociology]], and [[philosophy]] by focusing on [[subjects]] as diverse ...isciplinary journal funded by [[United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization|UNESCO]], and ''Southern Cross'', a [[translation]] of contemp
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• International Psycho-Analytical Association
  ...ool]] in 1964. From this point on, [[Lacan]] became much more vocal in his criticism of the [[International Psycho-Analytical Association|IPA]], accusing it of ===Lacan's Criticism===
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• Biography of Slavoj Zizek
  [[Slavoj Žižek]] is a Slovenian [[sociologist]], [[philosopher]] and [[cultural]] critic. He grew up in the comparative cultural [[freedom]] of the former Yugoslavia’s [[self]] managing [[socialism]].
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• Frankfurt School
  ...ment to the end of the tradition of the individual subject as the locus of criticism. Without a revolutionary working class, the Frankfurt School had no one to ...scendental theory of emancipatory knowledge that is the self-reflection of cultural evolution. The simultaneously empirical and transcendental nature of emanc
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• Will You Laugh for Me, Please?
  ...erefore turn around one of the commonplaces of [[conservative]] [[cultural criticism]]: In contrast to the notion that new [[media]] turn us into [[passive]] [[
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• Will You Laugh for Me, Please
  ...e turn around one of the commonplaces of the [[conservative]] [[cultural]] criticism: in contrast to the [[notion]] that the new media turn us into passive cons
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• Reflections of Media, Politics and Cinema
  ...[[witness]] role. The Post-Yugoslav war is strictly the result of European cultural dynamics. We don't need this simplistic liberal deploring of 'why don't peo ...erning theory, there are a lot of others, the whole [[domain]] of cultural criticism in America is basically cinema theory. I was always amazed by the extend to
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• Civil Society, Fanaticism, and Digital Reality
  multi-[[cultural]], neutral, liberal attitude, which only sees nationalistic madness strictly the result of European cultural dynamics. We don't [[need]] this simplistic
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• From "Passionate Attachments" to Dis-identification
  ...elled into the [[void]] of [[psychosis]]. Since the main proponent of this criticism is [[Judith]] [[Butler]], let me focus on her latest book, <i>The [[Psychic ...conscious is any less [[structured]] by the power relations that pervade [[cultural]] [[signifiers]] than is the [[language]] of the subject? If we find an att
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• Democracy
  ...cs]]”, aiming to reinstate by authoritarian means a sense of symbolic, [[cultural]] boundaries. ...]. (“[[Democracy is the Enemy]]”)</blockquote>Yet, he complains, [[the cultural turn]] in much Western “[[postmodern]]” [[theory]] has insulated [[econ
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• Anarchy
  ...in a contingent way during the struggle itself. Having moved beyond the [[cultural]] and [[sexual]] identity wars of the 1980s and 1990s - the PC litany of vi ...e way in which logos have become the universal [[signifiers]] of corporate cultural domination: "Logos, by the force of ubiquity, have become the closest [[thi
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• I am a fighting atheist
  ...s to combine unrestrained global capitalism with a more [[conservative]] [[cultural]] politics.</p> ...the facts. I disagree with this. And the second point is that with all his criticism of the U.S., Chomsky retains a certain commitment to what is the most eleme
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• Psychoanalysis and the Post-Political
  [[psychoanalytic]] [[defense]] of the [[Enlightenment]] draws criticism from ambiguous political profile--<i>marxisant</i> cultural critic on
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