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...dy and [[discussion]], and is, by its very [[nature]], difficult to define without depending on "un-deconstructed" [[concepts]]. ...call it, a "textual [[event]]" (a characterization implied by the Derrida quote just given) — and determining what [[authority]] to accord to a [[particu

...nderpinning. In plain [[words]], to believe or have faith that God exists, without ever having doubted God's [[existence]] or goodness, would not be a faith w ...'', and preferred a philosophy that was fragmented and made deep insights, without committing to an encompassing all-explaining [[system]].

...e process it reflects — only a consciousness observing the universe from without would see the [[whole]] of reality "the way it really is."9 ...ciousness is something introduced into the proletarian class struggle from without and not something that arose within it spontaneously."10

...inner life itself, using us as the source of energy; New Agers see in the source of speculations on how our world is just a mirage generated by a global Min ...tself within its scope into the work of art. In short, there is no Duchamp without Malevitch: only after the art practice isolates the frame/place as such, em

...closes in exactly the same [[time]] as when we just press the floor button without speeding up the [[process]] by pressing also the close-the-door button. Thi ...asserts as the highest act precisely what the pagan wisdom condemns as the source of evil: the gesture of [[separation]], of drawing the line, of clinging to

...an [[active]] [[agent]] within the Greek polis: of a group which, although without any fixed place in the [[social edifice]] (or, at best, occupying a subordi ...by different [[subjects]]. In other words, it now becomes visible that (to quote Marx) people do not treat somebody as a King because he is in himself a Kin

...day is, again, to [[repeat]] Marx's critique of [[political]] [[economy]], without succeeding on to the temptation of the [[ideologies]] of "postindustrial" s ...ic objectivity for outdated ideological positions. As for us here, it goes without saying, none of us is involved in any unconstitutional activities. You prob

...e were to do it, his transcendental edifice would have collapsed. However, WITHOUT this implicit "knowledge," there would also have been no transcendental dim ...n, and globalized, free-market modernity - from the detestable older kind, without getting themselves involved in asking the kinds of serious political and ec

...pplement]], enabled the Jews to persist and survive for thousands of years without land and common institutional tradition: they refused to give up their [[gh ...well known, that, since it was exposed to Western modernization abruptly, without a proper time to “work through” the [[trauma]] of its impact, to [[cons

...the other should display the same responsibility for me. Levinas likes to quote Dostoyevsky here: "We are all responsible for everything and [[guilty]] in ...[Christianity]] - Judaism's fundamental ethical task is that of how "to be without being a murderer":

...eadington Hill on the top of a bus. Without [[words]] and (I think) almost without [[images]], a fact [[about]] myself was somehow presented to me. I became a ...here: the decision is purely [[formal]], ultimately a decision to decide, without a clear [[awareness]] of <tt><b>WHAT</b></tt> the [[subject]] decides about

...here would be that an anonymous [[state]] institution would do this for us without our knowledge. Again the question surfaces, however, of whether or not we k ...the 'levels of various chemicals in our brains'. We are not being told, to quote Tom Wolfe, 'Sorry, but Your Soul Just Died': we are in effect being told th

...-liberal argument that 'more bombs and killing never bring peace' (it goes without saying that this is wrong). It is not even enough to point out, as a Marxis ==Source==

...rom our innermost background, later rejoined by the visual [[object]], the source of this sound - a gigantic space ship, a kind of space version of Titanic - ...]]: to show that [[love]] of the other is indispensable to all life. A man without love is no longer a man. . . . "<font color="#cc0000">(6)</font> In clear

...inner life itself, using us as the source of energy; New Agers see in the source of speculations on how our world is just a mirage generated by a global Min ...tself within its scope into the work of art. In short, there is no Duchamp without Malevitch: only after the art practice isolates the frame/place as such, em

...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

caught in a repetitious deadlock, without any prospect for the [[resolution]] of this tension. '[[repressed]]', kept out of the light of day-or, to quote from the admirable last pages of the

...rica. I never taught at any university in Slovenia, I am absolutely alone, without any research assistant. They just give me enough money in order to survive. ...a half-nationalist traitor etc.? Up to which extend can you make a career without making political compromises? I don't have any fundamental hopes in a socia

I am absolutely alone, without any research assistant. They just give me enough you make a career without making political compromises? I don't have any

...also works faster than [[speech]] so that his sentences overlap each other without any aural grammar, except in the [[form]] of reflex disclaimers like "I tal ...ntific]] about it" he says, darting between patches of shadow and arriving without being caught by a single beam. On the way we [[pass]] <i>Mladina</i> and Zi

...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

...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

...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."

...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

...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

...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

...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

...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

...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

...issolution, as the balkanizing gaze of the West would have it. Instead, to quote Žižek:<blockquote>Threatened by Serbian [[nationalism]], even Slovenian a

...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

...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

...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.

...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:

# 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

...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.

...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