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• Slavoj Žižek
  [[Image:Zizek_Large.jpg|300px|frame|right|Slavoj Žižek]] '''[[Slavoj Žižek]]''' (pronounced: slaˈvɔj ʒiˈʒɛk) ([[born]] 21 March 1949) is
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• Alain Badiou
  ...dy group organized by [[Louis Althusser]] and grew increasingly influenced by [[Jacques Lacan]]. ...of more main-line [[Marxism]]. In 1988 he published what is now considered by many to be his major [[statement]], ''L'être et l'événement''. He took u
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• Sigmund Freud
  ...56. His father [[Jacob]] was 41, a wool merchant, and had two [[children]] by a previous marriage. His [[mother]] Amalia was 21. Owing to his intellect, ...upposed that all [[living]] organisms are [[energy]]-systems also governed by this [[principle]]. During this year, at the [[University of Vienna]], Bru
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• Jacques-Alain Miller
  ...s dissolution of the École Française de Psychanalyse in 1980 is followed by the creation of La [[cause freudienne]]. Soon he dies leaving Miller as the ...f [[Terrorism]]" where he asserted that "an [[analyst]] is only authorized by her/himself (Lacan's dictum: l'[[analyste]] ne s'autorise que de lui-même)
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• Racism
  ...ity we cna be proud of and be happy within, but this [[goal]] is denied us by lazy scrounging foreginers. We can therefor not enjoy our community becaus ...ocess is taking plce whereby the dehumanizing of the o ther is accompanied by an inflation of the other's power and strenght.
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• The One Measure of True Love Is: You Can Insult the Other
  Slavoj Zizek, Interviewed by Sabine Reul and Thomas Deichmann. ...:script="urn:my-script-blocks"></br><b xmlns:script="urn:my-script-blocks">Slavoj Žižek:</b> Of course, I am not against the new. I am, indeed, almost temp
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• Blaise Pascal
  ...[[philosophers]], who simply accepted modernity.<ref>{{Z}} "[[Articles by Slavoj Žižek|The One Measure of True Love Is: You Can Insult the Other]]."</ref> [[Category:Slavoj Žižek|Pascal, Blaise]]
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• Welcome to the Desert of the Real (Essay)
  ...rification is so destructive resides in the very fact that it is sustained by the [[belief]] that, after the destructive work of purification will be acc ...of the famous [[scene]] from [[Hitchcock]]'s Birds, superbly [[analyzed]] by [[Raymond Bellour]], in which Melanie approaches the Bodega Bay pier after
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• Welcome to the Desert of the Real-2
  Welcome to the Desert of the [[Real]] [2] Slavoj [[Zizek]]. Re:constructions, 09/15/2001. WELCOME TO THE DESERT OF THE REAL! [[Slavoj Zizek]]
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• Self-Deceptions
  When you are bombarded by claims that in our post-[[ideological]] cynical era nobody believes any mor ...tary imbalance in the [[relationship]] between the Ego and [[jouissance]], by the tension between [[pleasure]] and the foreign [[body]] of jouissance in
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• Can Lenin Tell Us About Freedom Today
  ...in]] of doxa, of pragmatic considerations and compromises which always and by definition fall short of the unconditional [[ethical]] [[demand]]. The [[no ...the results of my personality, not as the result of me being thrown around by the [[market]] forces.
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• Human Rights and Its Discontents
  Slavoj [[Zizek]]: ...iduals in our post-modern [[political]] process. We are all the time asked by politicians to press such buttons. But some things are excluded. What is ex
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• Cynicism as a Form of Ideology
  ...the more sophisticated versions of the critics of ideology -that developed by the Frankfurt [[School]], for example — it is not just a question of [[se ...choanalysis, it is closer to Alphonse Allais's well-known [[joke]], quoted by Lacan: somebody points at a [[woman]] and utters a horrified cry, "Look at
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• The Interpassive Subject
  ...short-circuit between the [[formal]]/differential [[structure]] (which is by definition "[[absent]]," i.e. it is never given "as such" in our experienti ...rmost "relations between people" can be [[displaced]] onto (or substituted by) "relations between things"? That is to say, is it not a basic feature of t
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• Woman is One of the Names-of-the-Father
  ...lso a capricious [[Master]] who wants it all, i.e., who, herself not bound by any Law, charges her knight-servant with [[arbitrary]] and outrageous ordea ...r, we are dealing with an agency of power which is pre-symbolic, unbridled by the Law of castration; in both cases, the role of this fantasmatic agency i
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• It Doesn't Have to be a Jew
  Slavoj [[Zizek]], Interviewed by Josefina Ayerza. JOSEFINA AYERZA: The contemporary [[political]] [[discourse]], changed by events such as the altering of [[communist]] regular patterns, should be gi
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• Femininity between Goodness and Act
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• Die doppelte Erpressung
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• In His Bold Gaze My Ruin is Writ Large
  ...g Man is Hitchcock at its purest. His special attachment to it is attested by the exceptional [[character]] of his cameo-[[appearance]] in the prologue; ...to take into account the strict [[concept]] of "[[sadism]]" as elaborated by [[Lacan]]. In "[[Kant]] with [[Sade]]," Lacan proposed two schemes which tr
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• Hidden Prohibitions and the Pleasure Principle
  ...ment from [[human]] [[desire]]. Kant's [[practical]] [[reason]], sustained by [[moral]] law, brings out desire at its utmost: we [[know]] nevertheless ho ...] fantasy, you get it, but without claws, without teeth, it is all cut off by a veterinarian. For me this is the ultimate of this same [[logic]]. [[Nothi
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• Ethnic Dance Macabre
  THE [[world]] today is more and more marked by the frontier separating its insiders from its outsiders, between the "devel ...in the bloody disintegration tries to legitimise their place "[[inside]]" by presenting themselves as the last bastion of European civilisation (the cur
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• The Cyberspace Real
  ...universe]] of [[hallucinations]], unconstrained by any [[symbolic]] Law or by any [[impossibility]] of some [[Real]]? If not, how are we to detect in cyb ...the interactive immersive [[environment]] in which we actively participate by [[role]]-playing) no longer writes detailed story-line, s/he merely provide
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• Multiculturalism, or, the Cultural Logic of Multinational Capitalism
  ...ness resides in the regulation of its jouissance, i.e. the "real Other" is by definition "patriarchal", "violent", never the Other of ethereal wisdom and [[Category:Articles by Slavoj Žižek]]
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• From Joyce-the-Symptom to the Symptom of Power
  ...the [[social]] influence of her parents…"). Its crucial feature is that, by providing this answer, the [[subject]] pretends to assume the standpoint of ...held accountable for racist outbursts is an [[illusion]] already denounced by [[Nietzsche]] who proved that the deed or rather the doing is original, and
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• Desire:Drive = Truth:Knowledge
  ...] explanatory presupposition, like the second [[stage]] (I am being beaten by my [[father]]) of the [[child]]'s fantasy "A child is being beaten" which, ...ible]] for the malfunction. While this is true, this "truth" is propagated by me to conceal the fact that the accident realized my desire. On the contrar
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• Psychoanalysis in Post-Marxism: The Case of Alain Badiou
  ...in the 1930s? Why did they let themselves be lured into dull satisfaction by the Sirens of the late-[[capitalist]] "[[society]] of consumption" in the 1 ...element which, though clearly belonging to the situation, is not "counted" by it, properly included in it (e.g., the "nonintegrated" rabble in a societal
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• The Lesbian Session
  ...ne of over-conformist authors who undermine the ruling ideological edifice by their very excessive [[identification]] with it. ...mself, his [[self]]-confidence and assurance depend on how he is perceived by [[others]], while the prime mover is fully reconciled with himself, relying
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• The Spectre Is Still Roaming Around!
  ...? Was there ever a [[political]] manifesto that was more clearly falsified by subsequent historical [[reality]]? Isn't [[The Communist Manifesto]], at be ...n every quarter of the globe. In [[place]] of the old wants, [[satisfied]] by the productions of the country, we find new wants, requiring for their [[sa
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• When the Party Commits Suicide
  ...he Bolshevik rule was unstable, out of [[control]], permanently threatened by the centrifugal forces — far more than the gratuitous [[sadistic]] displa ...ap: instead of the usual public-[[symbolic]] [[power structure]] sustained by the obscene invisible network of apparatuses, we have the public power stru
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• Surplus-Enjoyment Between the Sublime and the Trash
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• Welcome to the Desert of the Real-3
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• Run, Isolde, Run
  ...lative" to the [[life]]-[[experience]] the old forms endeavoured to render by means of their "excessive" experimentations. A [[whole]] series of [[narrat ...es of multiple parallel destinies that interact and are crucially affected by meaningless [[contingent]] encounters, the points at which one series inter
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• Matinee Idols: Joan Bennett
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• Have Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri Rewritten the Communist Manifesto For the Twenty-First Century
  ...of [[money]] begetting more money, of a [[system]] which can survive only by constantly revolutionizing its own [[conditions]]-that is to say, in which ...we are dealing with a nothing which acquires some deceptive substance only by magically spinning itself into an excess of itself. Does today's virtual ca
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• The Leninist Freedom
  ...the results of my personality, not as the result of me being thrown around by [[market]] forces. ...] freedom to choose. In most cases, he will do it, and then rationalize it by way of saying to himself something like: “What I am asked to do IS disgus
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• Il n'y a pas de rapport religieux
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• Seize the Day: Lenin's Legacy
  ...nto an advantage: "What if the [[complete]] hopelessness of the situation, by stimulating the efforts of the [[workers]] and peasants tenfold, offered us ...the same as today's illusion that the ecological [[threat]] can be avoided by applying [[market]] [[logic]] (making polluters pay for the damage they [[c
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• Homo Sacer in Afghanistan
  ...never just the verification of a factual [[difference]]: the [[enemy]] is by definition always — up to a point, at least — invisible, it looks like [[Category:Articles by Slavoj Žižek]]
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• Gerhard Schroeder's Minority Report and Its Consequences
  ...] (in the 31 pages paper entitled "The National Security Strategy," issued by the White House on September 20 2002)? Its main points are: the American mi ...reby [[stating]] an opinion shared not only by many other states, but also by a considerable percentage of American people and congressmen. Schroeder was
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• The Iraq War: Where is The True Danger
  ...f the [[nightmare]] called Saddam. To this majority, the caution expressed by Western [[liberals]] cannot but appear deeply hypocritical — do they real ...or even Luxembourg. The [[refusal]] of "Americanization" in France, shared by many Leftists and Rightist nationalists, is thus ultimately the refusal to
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• From 'Passionate Attachments' to Dis-Identification
  I [[want]] to address the problem of [[identification]] by confronting the predominant deconstructionist doxa according to which the m ...nconscious "passionate attachments," attachments publicly non-acknowledged by the subject:
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• You May
  ...nd what to eat, how to relax and amuse oneself - have now been "colonised" by reflexivity, and are experienced as something to be learned and decided on. ...[[future]] of humanity offer one example of this. [[Another]] is provided by the [[scene]] in [[cyberspace]] movies in which the hero (or often the hero
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• The Stellar Parallax: The Traps of Ontological Difference
  ...the active subject working on the passive object): the subject is defined by a fundamental passivity, and it is the object from which movement comes, i. ...twist by means of which I myself am included into the picture constituted by me - it is this reflexive short-circuit, this necessary REDOUBLING of mysel
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• Hegel - Chesterton: German Idealism and Christianity
  by [[Slavoj Žižek]] ...ch is an "abstract [[negation]]" of polytheism and, as such, still haunted by it (Jehovah - plural; do not celebrate [[other]] gods IN FRONT OF ME; etc.)
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• A Glance into the Archives of Islam
  ...the [[true]] union of the East and the West – the point made exemplarily by Claude Levi-[[Strauss]]: ..../<BR><BR>The West should [[return]] to the sources of its torn condition: by way of interposing itself between [[Buddhism]] and Christianity, Islam isla
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• The Obscenity of Human Rights: Violence as Symptom
  ...]'s [[distinction]] between Ought and Must, an authentic [[revolution]] is by definition performed as a Must - it is not something we "ought to do" as an ...e]] main versions of theorizing these catastrophes: (1) the one epitomized by the name of [[Habermas]]: [[Enlightenment]] is in itself a positive emancip
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• With or Without Passion
  ...elief in the ultimate goodness of man in spite of the horrors accomplished by men against [[Jews]] in [[World]] War II: what renders such an assertion of ...which the [[ideological]] belief is transposed onto the Other is disturbed by the violent return of the immediate belief - they "really believe it." The
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• Move the Underground!
  ...how one should read the famous "inner voice <i>linnere Stimmel</i>" added by Schumann (in the written score) as a [[third]] line between the two piano l ...up every night, etc.; however, this explicit [[homophobia]] is accompanied by an excessive set of implicit web of [[homosexual]] innuendos, inner [[jokes
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• Over the Rainbow Coalition!
  ...cable: are they not fully justified in their worry that the [[film]], made by a fanatic [[Catholic]] traditionalist with occasional anti-Semitic outburst .... A glimpse into the Pope's spontaneous reaction was thus quickly replaced by the "official" neutral stance, corrected in [[order]] not to hurt anyone. T
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• Homo Sacer as the Object of the Discourse of the University
  ...g premise is sceptic-[[conservative]] - Lacan's diagnosis is best captured by his famous retort to the student revolutionaries: "As [[hysterics]], you [[ ...y measures (cutting [[welfare]] expenses, etc.) as a [[necessity]] imposed by his neutral expertise devoid of any [[ideological]] biases: what he conceal
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