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• Alain Badiou
  ...is otherwise communist perspective and even his philosophy’s [[lack]] of radical potential.
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• Sigmund Freud
  ...c” physiology. In his ''Lectures on Physiology'', Brücke set forth the radical view that the living organism is a [[dynamic system]] to which the laws of ...). But Freud’s is an incomplete anti-philosophy, for he cannot think the radical exteriority of trauma (ET: 295) and thus its purely [[political]] [[dimensi
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• Capitalism
  ...rms of capitalism in his theory of the capitalist [[mode of production]]. Radical feminists, [[liberals]] and socialist feminists agree that there can be no ...ull]] enjoyment (''FA'': 23; Stavrakakis 2000). In this way, even the most radical desire can be included, so long as it can become a site of profitability.
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• Ernesto Laclau
  ...he crucial [[antagonism]] in [[society]]. Instead they urged for radical [[democracy]] of [[agonistic pluralism]] where all [[antagonisms]] could be expressed. *[http://www.redpepper.org.uk/natarch/XRADDEM.HTML Hearts, Minds and Radical Democracy] Interview with Ernesto Laclau and Chantal Mouffe
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• Chantal Mouffe
  ...le crucial [[antagonism]] in [[society]]. Instead they urged for radical [[democracy]] of [[agonistic pluralism]] where all [[antagonisms]] could be expressed. *''[[Hegemony]] and Socialist Strategy: Towards a Radical Democratic [[Politics]]''. London – New York: Verso, 1985. (with [[Ernest
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• Liberalism
  ...] is something from which this more radical [[dimension]] of freedom and [[democracy]] has been removed — in [[other]] [[words]], the [[belief]] that basic de ...are simply no longer perceived as a matter to decide. A certain domain of radical social questions has simply been depoliticised.
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• The One Measure of True Love Is: You Can Insult the Other
  ...-subjective social impact of cyberspace. What we are witnessing today is a radical redefinition of what it means to be a human being.<br class="NetscapeDummy" ...f he were afraid of the new medium, has a much better grasp of its uncanny radical potentials.<br class="NetscapeDummy"/><br class="NetscapeDummy"/></td></tr>
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• Freedom
  ...m is something from which this more radical [[dimension]] of freedom and [[democracy]] has been removed — in [[other]] [[words]], the [[belief]] that basic de ...are simply no longer perceived as a matter to decide. A certain domain of radical social questions has simply been depoliticised.
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• Repeating Lenin (Essay)
  ...ccompanied by two qualifications: yes, why not, we live in a [[liberal]] [[democracy]], there is [[freedom]] of thought… however, one should treat Lenin in an ..."Just look around and see for yourself what will happen if we follow your radical notions!" And it is exactly the same [[thing]] that the [[demand]] for "sci
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• Welcome to the Desert of the Real (Essay)
  ...idal, far from signalling a [[desire]] for self-annihilation, cutting is a radical attempt to (re)gain a stronghold in reality, or (another aspect of the same ...nothing else, one can clearly experience yet again the limitation of our [[democracy]]: decisions are being made which will affect the fate of all of us, and al
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• Can Lenin Tell Us About Freedom Today
  ...e of dispelling all opportunistic compromises, of adopting the unequivocal radical position from which it is only possible to intervene in such a way that our ...In contrast to this [[false]] radical Leftist's position (who want true [[democracy]] for the people, but without the [[secret]] police to fight counterrevolut
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• Human Rights and Its Discontents
  ...hat is excluded from this participatory, multi-[[culturalist]], tolerant [[democracy]]? ...verse resides precisely in the fact that in this universe the dimension of radical evil, that in it the balance was way too much in favor of the good? So I th
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• Reflections of Media and Politic and Cinema
  ...a Japan, loved by those who criticize our Western, decadent way of liberal democracy and who look for a model that would combine the dynamic of capitalism, whil ...ulturalism, individualism, the market. They are afraid for too much plural democracy and there is a proto-fascistic potential in it. This combination of nationa
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• For a Leftist Appropriation of the European Legacy
  ...ety against the Party nomenklatura). In this precise sense, politics and [[democracy]] are synonymous: the basic aim of antidemocratic politics always and by de ...f-[[transparent]] rational order of collective Will.4 the most cunning and radical version, ultra-politics: the attempt to depoliticize the conflict by way of
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• Psychoanalysis in Post-Marxism: The Case of Alain Badiou
  ...Marxism, the entire [[situation]] has changed: the emerging post-Marxist "radical" [[political]] [[philosophy]] as a rule insists that psychoanalysis cannot ...just a minor [[disturbance]] (the reaction of the "utilitarian" liberal [[democracy]]); (2) the [[false]] imitation of the event of Truth (the Fascist staging
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• When the Party Commits Suicide
  ...[[tragic]] fate of the fighter dedicated to the [[Cause]], but a much more radical self-sacrifice. Let me elucidate it apropos of the Khmer Rouge rule in Camb ...eech]] in front of the Central Committee on 23 February 1937 hinges on the radical discord between the [[speaker]]'s utter seriousness (he is talking about hi
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• Welcome to the Desert of the Real-3
  ...they not share the anti-Semitic agenda? While the anti-Semitic bias of the radical African-Americans is well-known, who does not [[remember]] Buchanan's provo
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• Have Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri Rewritten the Communist Manifesto For the Twenty-First Century
  ...global, social-economic process will create the [[space]] needed for such radical measures: they fail to repeat, in today's conditions, Marx's line of argume ...ccompanied by two qualifications: yes, why not, we live in a [[liberal]] [[democracy]], there is [[freedom]] of thought…however, one should treat Lenin in an
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• The Leninist Freedom
  ...struggle]], his point is precisely to maintain the possibility of the TRUE radical choice. This is what the [[distinction]] between “formal” and “actual ...f the answer is no, it is of secondary importance if we have parliamentary democracy and freedom of individual choice.
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• Seize the Day: Lenin's Legacy
  ...] of the Second International. The kernel of the Leninist 'utopia' — the radical imperative to smash the bourgeois [[state]] and invent a new communal socia ...that only Serbia, after overthrowing Milosevic, could become a thriving [[democracy]]; the other ex-Yugoslav nations were too provincial to do so. This brings
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• A Plea for Leninist Intolerance
  ...[[ideological]] [[balance]]. With [[regard]] to C'est mon choix, the truly radical [[thing]] would have been to focus precisely on the disturbing choices: to ...mal freedom worth saving today; when he underlines that there is no pure [[democracy]], that we should always ask whom a freedom under consideration serves, his
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• The Iraq War: Where is The True Danger
  ...[[ideological]] [[belief]] that the US are bringing to [[other]] nations [[democracy]] and prosperity. And it seems as if these three "[[real]]" reasons are the ...ch lower level of [[fear]]. We are not talking here of "bringing [[Western democracy]] to Iraq," but just of getting rid of the [[nightmare]] called Saddam. To
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• You May
  ...[[government]] [[agency]] is involved in a plot against [[freedom]] and [[democracy]]. Believing there is a code to be cracked is of course much the same as be ...t one is loved by others and capable of creative achievements, but a more 'radical', pseudo-[[Freudian]] procedure of regressing back to the scene of the prim
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• The Stellar Parallax: The Traps of Ontological Difference
  ...es, annoys, disturbs, traumatizes us (subjects): the object is at its most radical that which objects, that which disturbs the smooth run of things. <a name=" ...tive deadlock (how, in what order, to tell the story), thus signals a more radical deadlock that pertains to the social content itself. Fitzgerald's narrative
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• The Obscenity of Human Rights: Violence as Symptom
  ...[[liberal]] stance is unable to trespass - [[witness]] the uneasiness of "radical" [[post-colonialism|post-colonialist]] Afro-American studies apropos of [[F ...open up the perspective of freedom to the Iraqi people ([[Western liberal democracy]], guarantee of [[private property]], the inclusion into the [[global marke
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• Move the Underground!
  ...homosexual]] innuendos, inner [[jokes]], obscene practices, etc. The truly radical [[intervention]] in to military homophobia should therefore not focus prima ...mes which do not reflect what America stands and fights for, the values of democracy, [[freedom]] and personal dignity. And, effectively, the very fact that the
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• Christians, Jews and Other Criminals: A Critique of Jean-Claude Milner
  ...erverse]] "totalitarian" twist, this [[identification]] is constitutive of democracy as such.<br><br> ...mbodies the All, i.e., which are all "minoritarian," while, in [[Europe]], democracy traditionally referred to the rule of the One-People. However, Milner draw
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• Passion In The Era of Decaffeinated Belief
  ...acceptance of the liberal-capitalist world order. It is here that a truly radical analysis should break with the standard liberal attitude: no, one should NO ...unction to engage in more and more "daring" forms of sexuality... In some "radical" circles in the US, there came recently a proposal to "rethink" the rights
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• The Iraqi MacGuffin
  ...in Iraq, and that the attack on Iraq is probably conceived as a much more radical [[preemptive strike]] - not against Saddam, but against the main contender ...y said this was going to be pretty." This is how, today, the First World [[democracy]] more and more functions: by way of "outsourcing" its dirty underside to o
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• Heiner Mueller Out of Joint
  ...nce seriously as a THEORETICO-POLITICAL [[position]], not just as a pseudo-radical chic allowed and excused in advance to the eccentric [[artist]], and to see ...European from a [[Communist]] country who longs for Western [[liberal]] [[democracy]] and some consumer goods.<br><br>
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• Objet a as Inherent Limit to Capitalism
  ...tate [[power]]; "absolute democracy" ("the rule of everyone by everyone, a democracy without qualifiers, without ifs or buts," <tt><b><a name="4x"></a><a href=" ...the production of [[society]] itself. The way is thus open for "absolute democracy," for the producers directly regulating their social relations without even
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• Some Politically Incorrect Reflections on Violence in France
  ...ïve benevolent [[agent]] who sincerely wants to bring to the Vietnamese [[democracy]] and Western freedom - it is just that his intentions totally misfire, or, ...sal policeman endeavoring to control the [[threats]] to peace, freedom and democracy all around the globe, lost control of a part of the metropolis itself: for
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• The Antinomies of Tolerant Reason: A Blood-Dimmed Tide is Loosed
  ...ou a broken kettle… Does the same inconsistency not characterize the way radical Islamists respond to the holocaust? (1) Holocaust did not happen. (2) It di ...nst it!”<ref>There is a deeper problem here, which concerns modern State democracy as such: is it not that the democratic abstraction (“all people independe
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• Bring Me My Philips Mental Jacket
  ...sexual and her emotional life. Biogenetic manipulation opens up much more radical perspectives. It may [[retroactively]] change our [[understanding]] of ours ...ot, to take note of the dark obverse of his idealised [[image]] of liberal democracy. All of a sudden, he has been compelled to confront the prospect of corpora
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• Attempts to Escape the Logic of Capitalism
  ...of the triumphant onslaught of global capitalism and its notion of liberal democracy. The true [[message]] of the notion of the Third Way is that there is no Se
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• Passion: Regular or Decaf?
  ...masturbating on stage, the sculptor displaying [[human]] excrement? Some radical circles in the [[United States]] recently proposed that we rethink the righ ...rights]] to include [[torture]] and a permanent [[emergency state]], if [[democracy]] is cleansed of its [[populist]] “[[excess]]es.”
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• The Free World ... of Slums
  ...Far East situation (what will [[China]] develop into with [[regard]] to [[democracy]]?); 3) the gap between the rich North and poor South; and 4) the oncoming ...l dynamic that sustains the [[First World]]’s [[role]] as exporters of [[democracy]] and guardians of [[universal]] [[human rights]].
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• The Not-So-Quiet American
  ...levels of [[fear]]. We are not talking here of “bringing [[West]]ern [[democracy]] to [[Iraq]],” but of simply getting rid of the [[nightmare]] called Sad ...he old story [[repeat]] itself in [[Iraq]]? America brings new hope and [[democracy]] to people, but instead of hailing the U.S. [[Army]], the ungrateful peopl
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• What Is To Be Done (With Lenin)?
  ...e]], his point is precisely to maintain the possibility of the <i>true</i> radical choice. This is what the [[distinction]] between “formal” and “actual ...f the answer is no, it is of secondary importance if we have parliamentary democracy and freedom of individual choices.<br><br>
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• The Subject Supposed to Loot and Rape
  ...rder — not because these reports were "exaggerated," but for a much more radical [[reason]]. [[Jacques Lacan]] claimed that, even if the [[patient]]'s wife ...s]] [[knows]] no [[negation]]: The official ([[Christianity|Christian]], [[democracy|democratic]]...) [[discourse]] is accompanied and sustained by a [[whole]]
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• The Liberal Waterloo
  ...y’s [[antagonism]]s are fully absorbed into the [[political]] arena. “Democracy” means that whatever electoral manipulation takes [[place]] all politicia
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• The Empty Wheelbarrow
  ...ot without [[truth]] - [[recall]] the numerous fiascos of the 20th-century radical intellectuals, perhaps best encapsulated by the French poet [[Paul]] Eluard ...ama]] [[dream]] of the "end of [[history]]", the [[belief]] that liberal [[democracy]] had, in [[principle]], won, that the [[search]] is over, that the advent
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• Hooray for Bush!
  ...[[perverse]] totalitarian twist, this anecdote lays bare the [[nature]] of democracy. It is based on a short-circuit between majority and the [[totality]]: the ...to "really-existing" [[liberal]] capitalo-democracy a more true 'radical' democracy?
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• Passion in the Era of Decaffeinated Belief
  ...acceptance of the liberal-capitalist world order. It is here that a truly radical analysis should break with the standard liberal attitude: no, one should NO ...unction to engage in more and more "daring" forms of sexuality... In some "radical" circles in the US, there came recently a proposal to "rethink" the rights
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• Liberation Hurts
  ...ronting us with our [[finitude]]. There is, as [[Levinas]] would put it, a radical [[Otherness]] confronting us with the absolute [[responsibility]], [[ethica ..., it's ethnically cleansed. There are almost no Palestinians. So, the most radical proponents of dialogue with the Palestinians are some very orthodox Jewish
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• The Iraqui MacGuffin
  ...in Iraq, and that the attack on Iraq is probably conceived as a much more radical [[preemptive strike]] - not against Saddam, but against the main contender ...y said this was going to be pretty." This is how, today, the First World [[democracy]] more and more functions: by way of "outsourcing" its dirty underside to o
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• The One Measure of True Love is "You Can Insult the Other"
  ...] is something from which this more radical [[dimension]] of freedom and [[democracy]] has been removed - in [[other]] [[words]], the [[belief]] that basic deci ...a Oshima's Ai No Corrida where the [[idea]] again is that you become truly radical, and go to the end in a [[sexual]] [[encounter]], when you practically [[to
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• Can Lenin Tell Us about Freedom Today
  ...e of dispelling all opportunistic compromises, of adopting the unequivocal radical position from which it is only possible to intervene in such a way that our ...In contrast to this [[false]] radical Leftist's position (who want true [[democracy]] for the people, but without the [[secret]] police to fight counterrevolut
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• Why We All Love to Hate Heider
  ...reaction as evidence that the anti-fascist consensus of post-war European democracy holds firm. But are things really so unequivocal?<br><br> ...Therein resides the ultimate rationale of the Third Way: that is, a social democracy purged of its minimal subversive sting, extinguishing even the faintest mem
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• Desert of the Real
  ...they not share the anti-Semitic agenda? While the anti-Semitic bias of the radical African-Americans is well-known, who does not [[remember]] Buchanan's provo
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