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• You May
  "Rule Girls" are heterosexual [[women]] who follow precise rules as to how they let themselves be seduced (accept a dat ...ence]] of some Big Other: in every [[case]] what is wanted is an [[agent]] who will give [[structure]] to our chaotic social lives.
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• The Stellar Parallax: The Traps of Ontological Difference
  ...the obvious yet pertinent question about the title of my longest book: "so who or what is tickling the ticklish subject?" The answer, of course, is: the o ...resupposes that my position of enunciation is that of an external observer who can grasp the whole of reality); it rather resides in the reflexive twist b
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• Too Much Democracy?
  ...nglessness of the fact that a couple hundred of Florida voices will decide who will be the president, the Democratic candidate accepted his defeat. In the ...n, they take recourse to the commonplace wisdom that "a true leader leads, he does not follow" - and this from leaders otherwise obsessed with opinion po
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• Smashing the Neighbor's Face
  ...sacrifice" not [[Christ]]'s gesture par excellence? Was He not the hostage who took the place of all of us and as such exemplarily [[human]] ("ecce homo") ...one who is not afraid to profit from his ethical choices, i.e., as the one who is able to break the [[vicious cycle]] of ethics and sacrifice.<br><br>
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• The Matrix: The Truth of the Exaggerations
  ...em]]) tries to explain to the still perplexed Neo what the Matrix is, he - he [[links]] it to a failure in the [[structure]] of the [[universe]]: ...e VR controlled by the Matrix (in the same way he is able to stop bullets, he should also have been able to derealize blows that wound his body).
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• Is There a Proper Way to Remake a Hitchcock Film?
  ...s a rule, Durband tries to formulate directly, in everyday locution, (what he considers to be) the [[thought]] expressed in Shakespeare's [[metaphoric]] ...] from such a decadent town can be an easy pick?) Although Joseph Stefano, who wrote the scenario, claims<a href="#footnote"><font color="#39bda5" size="-
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• The Act and Its Vicissitudes
  ...this ecstasy. Lewis thus refers to the experience as the "odd [[thing]];" he mentions its common location—"I was going up Headington Hill on the top o ...edom]], and perhaps a man is most free when, instead of producing motives, he could only say, 'I am what I do.' Then came the repercussion on the imagina
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• The Iraqi MacGuffin
  ...t man says, 'But there are no leopards in the Scottish highlands.' 'Well,' says the second, 'then that's not a MacGuffin, is it?'"<br><br> ...by "Rachel from Scotlandí on the BBC website in September 2003: "We know he had weapons, we sold him some of them." This is the direction a serious inv
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• Death's Merciless Love
  ...rrative (the son revenges his father against the father's [[evil]] brother who murdered him and took over his throne; the son survives the illegitimate ru ...after her death, he will acknowledge this to himself; at that [[moment]], he will feel [[guilty]] for his [[past]] hatred of her mother, so she is now l
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• Some Politically Incorrect Reflections on Violence in France
  ...[[solidarity]] are no less wrong than the US free-[[market]] [[liberals]] who now gleefully returned the blow and pointed out how the very rigidity of st ...doctor who, because of the financial difficulties of the hospital in which he works, was lured into swallowing the bait of the pharmaceutical company.
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• Bring Me My Philips Mental Jacket
  Do we today have an available bioethics? Yes, we do, a bad one: what the Germans call <i>Bindestrich-Ethik</i>, or 'hyph ...gency]]. No wonder the majority of [[people]] (including the [[scientist]] who [[identified]] the gene) choose not to [[know]], an [[ignorance]] that is n
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• Attempts to Escape the Logic of Capitalism
  ...sing the seemingly invincible Communist regime) has ended up serving those who 'realistically' argue that any real change in today's world is impossible.
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• Parallax View
  ...>res cogitans</i>. Here, however, one should be more precise than Karatani who directly identifies the transcendental subject with transcendental illusion Yes, an ego is just an illusion, but functioning there is the transcendental ap
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• Give Iranian Nukes a Chance
  ...at differs with earlier timetables cited by Bush administration officials, who estimated that Iran was only five years away from such a weapon. Responding ...morality|moralistic]] [[hypocrisy]]. And indeed, it was Nietzsche himself who, more than a century ago, in <i>Daybreak,</i> provided the best [[analysis]
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• Thanks, But We'll Do It Ourselves
  ...German]] <i>herumspringen</i>, to jump around). At 17, their [[children]] (who until then have been subjected to strict [[family]] [[discipline]]) are set ...roblems with the standard [[liberal]] attitude toward [[Muslim]] [[women]] who wear veils: They can do it if it is their free choice and not an option imp
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• How Much Democracy Is Too Much?
  ...cy,” i.e., in the rise of “illiberal democracy at home and abroad.” He draws the lesson that democracy can only “catch on” in economically dev ...es and its “willing partners” impose themselves as the ultimate judges who decide if and when a country is ripe for democracy.
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• Today, Iraq. Tomorrow ... Democracy?
  ...e [[Saddam]]’s victims, and they would be really glad to be rid of him. He is such a catastrophe for his country that an American occupation in <i>wha ...“understanding”) an [[Eastern Europe]]an from an ex-communist country who longs for [[West]]ern [[liberal democracy]] and some consumer goods.<br><br
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• The Not-So-Quiet American
  ...[[Saddam]]’s victims, and they would be really glad to get rid of him. He was such a catastrophe for his country that an American occupation in whate ...e put it: “I never knew a man who had better motives for all the trouble he caused.”
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• What Is To Be Done (With Lenin)?
  ...reedoms is effectively foreign to our [[liberal]]-tolerant sensibility – who, today, would not [[experience]] a shudder apropos his dismissive remarks a ...]] of freedom. Lenin is best remembered for his famous retort “Freedom - yes, but for <em>whom</em>? To do <em>what</em>?” For him, in the above-quote
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• Revenge of Global Finance
  ...s. He can’t let go of his mother; he can’t let go of his girlfriend. He can’t let go of things. It makes you greedy. And when you’re greedy, ...d [[children]], his brothers and sisters — yes even his own [[life]] — he cannot be my disciple." In order for there to be a properly [[unified]] "[
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