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• Slavoj Zizek: An Introduction
  ...is will return to haunt Zizek when he turns to this absolute negativity as source and motor of revolutionary change. Absolute negativity does not always appe ...ge that he is opportunistically misreading a theory or cultural phenomenon without any consistent rationale for distorting it is the charge that he must reall
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• Love of One's Neighbor
  ...of time, it allows the transitory ve<a></a><a></a>rtigo that is the vital source of its [[meaning]] to evaporate.<br> ...to say calm impudence, which allows them to express so many heroic truths without wanting to pay the price. It is thanks to this that what is affirmed concer
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• Action
  ...ject": "The initial [[helplessness]] of [[human]] beings is the [[primal]] source of all [[moral]] motives." ...t part of [[Totem]] and [[Taboo]] (1912-13a), which he concludes with this quote from [[Goethe]]: "In the beginning was the deed."
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• Love of the Neighbor
  ...ain period of time, it allows the transitory [[vertigo]] that is the vital source of its [[meaning]] to evaporate.<br> ...to say calm impudence, which allows them to express so many heroic truths without wanting to pay the price. It is thanks to this that what is affirmed concer
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• Introducing Lacan
  ...s]]'', a [[text]] which would always remain dear to him and which he would quote at the start of his [[doctoral dissertation]] in [[medicine]]. ...uent arrest and confinement, she found the [[punishment]] which was a real source of the [[act]] itself. She [[understood]], at a certain level, that ''she
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• Censorship Today: Violence, or Ecology as a New Opium for the Masses
  ...which justifies the resuscitation of the notion of [[Communism]] - or, to quote [[Alain]] [[Badiou]]: ...l in the field of collective [[action]]. Without the horizon of communism, without this [[Idea]], there is [[nothing]] in the historical and political becomin
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• Madness and Habit in German Idealism
  ...it, it means that its vitality is lost, we just mechanically [[repeat]] it without being aware of it. Habit thus appears to be the very opposite of freedom: f ...body into mobile and fluid means, soul’s [[instrument]], which serves as without us having to focus consciously on it – in short, through habits, the subj
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• The Liberal Utopia II: The Market Mechanism for the Race of Devils
  ...imaginary impossibility (the utopia of a perfected harmonious social order without antagonisms, the consumerist utopia of today's capitalism), is not utopia i ...no less utopian to think that one can renounce/sacrifice <i>jouissance</i> without this renunciation generating its own surplus-<i>jouissance</i>. In this sen
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• Against The Double Blackmail (article)
  ...there were no casualties - the pilot was SAVED! (This [[concept]] of "war without casualties" was elaborated by General Collin Powell.) And was not the count How, then, are we to [[think]] these two stories together, without sacrificing the [[truth]] of each of them? What we have here is a political
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• Yugoslavia/Nationalism
  ...issolution, as the balkanizing gaze of the West would have it. Instead, to quote Žižek:<blockquote>Threatened by Serbian [[nationalism]], even Slovenian a
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• Articles/Slavoj Zizek/am-i-a-philosopher.html
  ...vol­ent mas­ters of the Third World, we can at least be the priv­ileged source of evil, pat­ron­iz­ingly depriving them of their respons­ib­il­ity f ...thout caf­feine, beer yes, but without alco­hol, may­on­naise yes, but without cho­les­terol, sex yes, but safe sex… We are here in the domain of what
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• Articles/Slavoj Zizek/cogito-in-the-history-of-madness.html
  ...s to identify the true difference between himself and Derrida. He attacks (without naming it) the practice of deconstruction and textual analysis, for which " ...tle without its shell." A naked man is the same nonsense as a shaved ape: without language (and tools and …), man is a crippled animal―it is this lack wh
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• Articles/Slavoj Zizek/marx-as-a-reader-of-hegel-hegel-as-a-reader-of-marx.html
  ...e have to give billions of dollars to the banks in 2008 and 2009? Because, without a functioning banking system, the entire (capitalist) economy collapses. Ba ...say, disguised mode. It is constantly changing from one form to the other without thereby becoming lost, and thus assumes an automatically active character.
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• Articles/Slavoj Zizek/pathological-narcissus.html
  ...he foundations for the New Left in the west and whose purest expression is without doubt Marcuse's Eros and Civilization. According to this view, revolution i ...tes everything to his public "appearance". This basic contradiction is the source of other PN features:
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• Articles/Slavoj Zizek/plato-descartes-hegel-three-philosophers-of-event.html
  # the ''Marxist ''anti-Platonism (for which Lenin is not without blame): the dismissal of Plato as the first idealist, opposed to pre-Socrat ...o'', about the reduction of a human point to the abyssal point of thinking without any external object, is that we are not dealing here with silly and extreme
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• Articles/Slavoj Zizek/the-superego-and-the-act.html
  ...nframed paintings — what we get now are expositions of frames themselves without paintings, expositions of dead cows and their excrement, videos of the insi ...e slogan is Du Darfst. If you obey me, Du Darfst, you can have your salami without fat.
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• Articles/Slavoj Zizek/ugly-creepy-disgusting-and-other-modes-of-abjection.html
  ...ng, inexpressible and abyssal. The monstrous does violence to subjectivity without submit­ting it to any legality.''' ...od or shit. "It's similar with the saliva: as we all know, although we can without problem swallow our own saliva, we find it extremely repulsive to swallow a
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