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• Jouissance
  ...sense of impersonal duty, as an instrument of the Other’s will (the law/state/universal mission, etc.). The [[essence]] of the matter is not so much the ...e forms of excessive enjoyment (they are idlers [[living]] off “our” [[state]] benefits and they work too hard, taking “our” jobs, etc.) and who the
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• Lenin (revolutionary)
  ...otests and later that year was arrested. He was then expelled from [[Kazan State University|Kazan University]]. He continued to study independently and by [ ...tory or government. He emphasized, though, that to be able to govern the [[state]], a worker should "learn [[communism]]." He furthermore insisted that a me
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• Fantasy
  ...in the extrapolitical fantasy [[objects]] customary within that specific [[nation]], [[culture]] or [[religion]]. If not, these groups must displace the sitt ...yment (''jouissance'') that will [[return]] the subject to a non-lacking [[state]], which allows each human subject to tolerate this status; and (b) as a fa
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• The Spectre is Still Roaming Around
  the very [[form]] of the [[Nation]]-[[State]] - than they ever were when it was
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• Samuel P. Huntington
  ...ors of the [[21st century]] will be [[civilization]]s rather than [[nation-state]]s. More recently, he garnered widespread attention for his analysis of [[t ...ks of a rapid liberalization and proposed gradual steps and a strong party state after the [[image]] of the Mexican [[PRI]]. After a drawn out [[transition]
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• Václav Havel
  =="Kosovo and the End of the Nation-State"==
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• Repeating Lenin (Essay)
  ...ly lives… there is [[nothing]] easier today than to get international, [[state]] or corporate funds for a multidisciplinary research into how to fight the ...] are today part of the consensus (at least the disintegrating [[Welfare]] State one): the [[universal]] vote, the right to free education, universal health
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• Welcome to the Desert of the Real (Essay)
  ...series of oppositions: individual versus state, peaceful resistance versus state violence, man versus machine, the inner force of a tiny individual versus t ...r ex-Yugoslav nations are too "provincial" to sustain their own democratic State… is this not the echo of [[Friedrich Engels]]' well-known scathing remark
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• Can Lenin Tell Us About Freedom Today
  ...an Institution (the established [[Church]], the IPA, the Stalinist Party-[[State]]). It aims neither at nostalgically reenacting the "[[good]] old revolutio ...based on the rejection of the hegemonic notions of the need to curtail Big State expenditure and administration - in a way, it would "do the [[impossible]].
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• The Matrix, or, Two Sides of Perversion
  ...f matter that have never before been studied in such a state, since such a state only existed briefly after the Big Bang. However, this prospect has given r ...cience is corrupted through financial dependence on large corporations and state agencies — even in themselves, sciences cannot provide the answer. Ecolog
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• Human Rights and Its Discontents
  ...in his essay significantly titled, "Kosovo and the End of the [[Nation]]-[[State]]." According to Havel, the NATO bombing of Yugoslavia, "places human rights above the rights of the state. The Federal Republic of Yugoslavia was attacked by the Alliance without a
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• Reflections of Media and Politic and Cinema
  ...y slaves, but pretend to be of Etrurian origin. It would be nice to find a nation, which would accept the fact that they are not the first but the second. Th ...venian citizen? Her very position is a counterprove of what she says. In a state of less than 2 millions we offered 100,000 non-Slovenians permanent citizen
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• For a Leftist Appropriation of the European Legacy
  ...olution]] (in which le troisieme etat proclaimed itself identical to the [[Nation]] as such against aristocracy and clergy) to the demise of ex-European [[So ...f the post-political suspension of the political in the reduction of the [[state]] to a mere police agent servicing the (consensually established) [[needs]]
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• From Joyce-the-Symptom to the Symptom of Power
  ...aside our petty political and ideological struggles, it's the fate of our nation which is at stake now". ...uch. The paradox of reflection is that it [[retroactively]] makes the past state of things what it always-already "truly was": by means of the feminist [[re
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• The Spectre Is Still Roaming Around!
  ...s all local ethnic traditions, including the very [[form]] of [[Nation]]-[[State]]. And, in this situation, is not the description in The Manifesto of the s
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• Have Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri Rewritten the Communist Manifesto For the Twenty-First Century
  ...globalization and to rescue (what there is left to rescue) the [[welfare]] state. This standard [[leftist]] view is imbued with a profoundly [[conservative] ...ation in typical United Nations Style, then it would mean the abolition of state borders; under present conditions, such a step would trigger an invasion of
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• The Leninist Freedom
  ...on the rejection of the hegemonic notions of the [[need]] to curtail Big [[State]] expenditure and administration — in a way, it would “do the [[impossi ...to sell us the insecurity caused by the [[dismantling]] of the [[Welfare]] State as the opportunity for new freedoms: you have to [[change]] jobs every year
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• Seize the Day: Lenin's Legacy
  ...stands for a [[return]] to 'common sense'. The explosive potential of The State and [[Revolution]] can't be overestimated: in its pages, as Neil Harding wr ...f "all [[power]] to the soviets", that is, the [[dismantling]] of existing state apparatuses and their replacement with new commune-like forms of social man
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• The Iraq War: Where is The True Danger
  ...ly about the control of oil and American hegemony — the [[true]] rogue [[state]] which terrorizes [[others]] are the US themselves; (3) even if successful ...the wounded [[Narcissism]] of the European "great nations." And this great-state-[[nationalism]] is not just a feature [[external]] to the (failure of) the
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• You May
  ...rational]] passions, as opposed to the reasonableness of post-[[nation]]-[[state]] [[conflict]] [[resolution]] by negotiation and compromise. Racism is a di ...a, talking [[about]] his [[film]] Underground, dismissed the Slovenes as a nation of Austrian grooms, nobody reacted: an 'authentic' [[artist]] from the less
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• The Stellar Parallax: The Traps of Ontological Difference
  ...abstract "terrorist" revolutionary freedom by the concrete freedom of the State as an aesthetic organic Whole. However, already the temporality of this rel ...EARLY: in the age of Reformation), they cannot gain access to the rational State that would be at the level of true political modernity.<br><br>
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• Hegel - Chesterton: German Idealism and Christianity
  ...e makes a similar [[statement]] on [[Russia]]: both are "immature" states, state which have not yet reached the [[full]] actualization of their historical [ ...stic worlds are silently bound in a crusade against the [[Family]] and the State. He has, therefore, formed a special [[corps]] of policemen, policemen who
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• A Glance into the Archives of Islam
  ...lp]] the boy up and hold him by the hand, for I will make him into a great nation.’ Then God enabled Hagar to see a well of water. She went over and filled ...a provocative “monstration.” The second paradox is that <i>what this [[State]] prohibition prohibits is prohibition itself</i> (215), and, perhaps, this
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• Move the Underground!
  ...s]] of representation over the represented. At the level of the Law, the [[state]] Power only represents the interests of its [[subjects]]; it is serving th ...rful and omnipresent) threat of the Enemy that legitimizes the permanent [[state of emergency]] of the existing Power (Fascists invoked the threat of the [[
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• Christians, Jews and Other Criminals: A Critique of Jean-Claude Milner
  ...raditions, the Jews wanted to built their own clearly delimited [[Nation]]-State.<br><br> ...hnic [[community]]. Today, however, with the move towards the post-Nation-State [[globalization]] whose [[political]] expression is an unlimited [[Empire]]
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• Smashing the Neighbor's Face
  ...realize a utopia, AND it immediately transposes the place of this blessed state into an Elsewhere, which then propels it to declare our terrestrial life of ...]] identity with its local color - or, to put it again in Deleuze's terms, state's territory is by definition that of a reterritorialized deterritorializati
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• Passion In The Era of Decaffeinated Belief
  ...sion is aggressive secularism of the kind displayed recently by the French state where the government prohibited wearing all too conspicuous religious symbo ...human rights are "rethought" to include torture and a permanent emergency state, if democracy is cleansed of its populist "excesses"...<br><br>
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• The Iraqi MacGuffin
  ...Iraq and not North Korea, the underlying logic was clear: once a "rogue" [[state]] crosses the critical [[limit]] and already acquires substantial nuclear w ...as NOT a threat to the US? Saddam's regime was an abominable authoritarian state, [[guilty]] of many crimes, mostly towards their own people. However, one s
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• Iraq's False Promises
  ...U.S. policies would merely be against the policies of a single [[nation]]-state. But if freedom is God's gift to humanity, and the U.S. [[government]] sees ...., that, while pretending to be an empire, it continues to act as a nation-state, ruthlessly pursuing its interests. Indeed, in a [[perverse]] [[reversal]]
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• The Iraqi Borrowed Kettle
  ...ally about the control of oil and American hegemony - the [[true]] rogue [[state]] which terrorizes [[others]] are the US themselves; (2) even if it is not ...d Iraq and not North Korea, the underlying logic was clear: once a "rogue" state crosses the critical [[limit]] and already acquires substantial nuclear wea
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• Some Politically Incorrect Reflections on Violence in France
  ...o now gleefully returned the blow and pointed out how the very rigidity of state interventions which [[limit]] market competition and its dynamics prevented ...]]-policing; the counter-pole to Rightist Populist violence is the Welfare State [[control]] and regulation; the counter-pole to the juvenile outbursts is t
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• Knee-Deep
  ...nundrums of the [[recent]] tensions between the key [[Western Europe]]an [[state]]s and the [[US]]. His aperçus [[about]] the relations between the [[UK]] ...s the strange turn in China not to do with the fact that it is a Communist state which has fully endorsed a [[capitalist]] economy? The question should ther
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• Attempts to Escape the Logic of Capitalism
  ...st roots somewhere outside the perceptible world .&nbsp;.&nbsp;. while the state is a human creation, human beings are the creation of God.' He seems to be
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• Are We in a War
  ...we are entering a time in which a state of peace can at the same time be a state of emergency. ...ncy are in actuality a desperate [[defence]] against [[The Real|the real]] state of emergency.
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• What Does Europe Want? (article)
  Slovene [[culture]] is obsessed with the [[notion]] that, although a small [[nation]], we are a [[cultural]] superpower: We possess some [[agalma]], a hidden i ...crimes or [[other]] crimes against humanity (in accordance with the Nation-State logic). No wonder the Serb reaction is one of perplexed fury! And a similar
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• The Not-So-Quiet American
  ...s of 99.95 percent), the campaign song played again and again on all the [[state]] [[media]] was none other than Whitney Houston’s “I Will Always [[Love
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• The Liberal Waterloo
  ...he imposes an anti-American world [[government]] that disarms all [[nation-state]]s. This ridiculous plot unfolds until the final battle when all non-[[Chr ...al hundred votes in Florida decided who would be president of the entire [[nation]], the Democratic candidate accepted his defeat. In the weeks of uncertain
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• Revenge of Global Finance
  ...background of [[Hardt]] and [[Negri]]’s <i>[[Empire]]</i> (from [[Nation State]] to the [[Global]] [[Empire]]). ...n]] of the Free [[World]] versus the [[Evil Empire]]; the retreat of the [[Nation]] States, which can be given a rightist, [[nationalism|nationalist]] [[Buch
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• Passion in the Era of Decaffeinated Belief
  ...sion is aggressive secularism of the kind displayed recently by the French state where the government prohibited wearing all too conspicuous religious symbo ...human rights are "rethought" to include torture and a permanent emergency state, if democracy is cleansed of its populist "excesses"...
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• Liberation Hurts
  ...k]] out against the erosion of the [[separation]] between [[church]] and [[state]], or do you think that they "secretly believe much more than they are will ...s at my disposal." No, no, no, it's more like, "This sacrifice is for my [[nation]]." Even more importantly, it's a strange [[logic]] in which the bombers th
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• The Iraqui MacGuffin
  ...Iraq and not North Korea, the underlying logic was clear: once a "rogue" [[state]] crosses the critical [[limit]] and already acquires substantial nuclear w ...as NOT a threat to the US? Saddam's regime was an abominable authoritarian state, [[guilty]] of many crimes, mostly towards their own people. However, one s
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• Can Lenin Tell Us about Freedom Today
  ...an Institution (the established [[Church]], the IPA, the Stalinist Party-[[State]]). It aims neither at nostalgically reenacting the "[[good]] old revolutio ...based on the rejection of the hegemonic notions of the need to curtail Big State expenditure and administration - in a way, it would "do the [[impossible]].
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• Why We All Love to Hate Heider
  ...nternational corporations are 'betraying' the decent working people of our nation). At the congress of the Front National a couple of years ago, Jean-Marie L ...ng to deserve the title of a 'working class state': it is turning into the state of the working class for American capital.<br><br>
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• You May!
  ...rational]] passions, as opposed to the reasonableness of post-[[nation]]-[[state]] [[conflict]] [[resolution]] by negotiation and compromise. Racism is a di ...ing [[about]] his [[film]] <i>Underground</i>, dismissed the Slovenes as a nation of Austrian grooms, nobody reacted: an 'authentic' [[artist]] from the less
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• The Matrix, or, the Two Sides of Perversion
  ...f matter that have never before been studied in such a state, since such a state only existed briefly after the Big Bang. However, this prospect has given r ...cience is corrupted through financial dependence on large corporations and state agencies - even in themselves, sciences cannot provide the answer. Ecologis
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• NATO, the Left Hand of God? (Essay)
  ...her law" has its "deepest roots outside the perceptible world." "While the state is the work of man, man is the work of God." In other words: NATO can viola ...nsiders the Serbia of Slobovan Milosevic to be the successor of that dream state -- i.e., exactly the force that so effectively killed that old Yugoslavia.
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• Against The Double Blackmail
  ...mbing? It is interesting to watch in the last days the Serbian satellite [[state]] TV which targets foreign [[public]]: no reports on atrocities in Kosovo, ...praised new global ethical politics in which one is allowed to violate the state sovereignty on behalf of the violation of human rights. The first glimpse i
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• Reflections of Media, Politics and Cinema
  ...slaves]], but pretend to be of Etrurian origin. It would be nice to find a nation, which would accept the fact that they are not the first but the second. Th ...[[citizen]]? Her very position is a counterprove of what she says. In a [[state]] of less than 2 millions we offered 100,000 non-Slovenians permanent [[cit
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• Human Rights and its Discontents
  ...has its "deepest roots [[outside]] the perceptible [[world]]." "While the state is the [[work]] of man, man is the work of God." In [[other]] [[words]]: NA ...ers the Serbia of Slobovan Milosevic to be the successor of that [[dream]] state -- i.e., exactly the force that so effectively killed that old Yugoslavia.
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• The Spectre Is Still Roaming Around
  ...s all local ethnic traditions, including the very [[form]] of [[Nation]]-[[State]]. And, in this situation, is not the description in The Manifesto of the s
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