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• Articles/Alain Badiou/Descartes Lacan
  Yes or no – is the empty set the proper name of being as such? Or must we believe that this term more ap ...ween a structural recurrence, which thinks the subject-effect as the empty set, so exposed in he uniform network of experience, and a hypothesis of the ra
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• Articles/Alain Badiou/Fifteen Theses On Contemporary Art
  ...xuality. It is the production of an infinite subjective series through the finite means of a material subtraction. 6. The subject of an artistic truth is the set of the works which compose it.
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• Articles/Slavoj Zizek/antinomies-of-pure-sexuation.html
  ...is the deadlock of Reason: when it tries to overstep the boundaries of our finite experience, reason (logos, symbolic order) gets necessarily entangled in an ...ey are numbers that can't be described by algebraic operations: there's no finite sequence of multiplications, divisions, additions, subtractions, exponents,
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• Articles/Slavoj Zizek/cogito-in-the-history-of-madness.html
  ...and Symbolic). Both extremes are illusionary: pure excess as well as pure finite order would disintegrate, cancel themselves out. Such an approach misses th ...ne and Punish'', on the formation of the free individual through a complex set of disciplinary micro-practices―and, as Pippin does not hesitate to point
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• Articles/Slavoj Zizek/in-defense-of-hegels-madness.html
  ...orders of the signifier and the signified: since the signifying network is finite, it cannot adequately cover the endless field of the signified in its entir ...re or less than that ''floating signifier'' which is the disability of all finite thought". (Lévi-Strauss 1987: 63)
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• Articles/Slavoj Zizek/lacan-as-a-reader-of-hegel.html
  ...bring together Heidegger (who defines "care" as the fundamental feature of finite ''Dasein'') and Hegel (the philosopher of infinite Absolute Knowledge in wh ...of their own intelligibility, which is the true "infinite" immanent to the finite itself. The contrast with Heidegger's own full assertion of finitude could
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• Articles/Slavoj Zizek/marx-as-a-reader-of-hegel-hegel-as-a-reader-of-marx.html
  ...ed for any commodity we may need. Then, once the circulation of capital is set in motion, the relationship is inverted, the means turns into an end-in-its ...y represent, or in the form of a Divinity too sublime to be grasped by our finite mind. In other words, the point of Pippin's rehabilitation of art is not th
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• Articles/Slavoj Zizek/plato-descartes-hegel-three-philosophers-of-event.html
  ...'not ''being secured by the transcendent, ''by ''being wholly temporal and finite, always and everywhere in suspense, and yet nonetheless capable of some ill ...in history seems to have happened to them. … The wisest men in the world set out to be natural; and the most unnatural thing in the world was the very f
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• Articles/Slavoj Zizek/why-lacan-is-not-lacanian.html
  ...grasp and forever remains the opaque horizon into which we are "thrown" as finite beings. And it is customary to interpret the opposition between consciousne ...ences prove that there must be some X which is "expressed" in the cultural set of values, attitudes, rituals… which materialize our way of life. What is
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