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• The Secret Agent
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• Lenin (revolutionary)
  ...and other enemies of the Bolsheviks accused Lenin of being a paid German [[agent]]. On this allegation co-leader [[Leon Trotsky]] made a defensive speech on ...[[Stalinism]]. Many of the institutions and policies Stalin used such as [[secret police]], [[labor camps]], and executions of opponents were already in use
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• Alfred Hitchcock
  ...last blonde heroine was French actress [[Claude Jade]] as the [[secret]] [[agent]]'s worried daughter, Michele, in ''[[Topaz (1969 film)|Topaz]]'' (1969). *''[[Secret Agent]]'' (1936), loosely based on [[Somerset Maugham]]'s "Ashenden" stories
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• Repeating Lenin (Essay)
  ...nalyst]]) is a self-centered [[agent]] of self-mediation, but a decentered agent struggling with a foreign kernel. God, Analyst, Party — the three forms o ...of the opposition between interpretation and formalization14: the external agent (Party, God, Analyst) is NOT the one who "understands us better than oursel
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• Welcome to the Desert of the Real (Essay)
  ...sulated artificial universe which generates the notion that some ominous [[agent]] is threatening us all the time with total [[destruction]]. ...in all its intensity is when James Bond penetrates the master-criminal's [[secret]] [[domain]] and locates there the site of intense labor (distilling and pa
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• Welcome to the Desert of the Real-2
  ...sulated artificial universe which generates the notion that some ominous [[agent]] is threatening us all the time with [[total]] [[destruction]]. ...in all its intensity is when James Bond penetrates the master-criminal's [[secret]] [[domain]] and locates there the site of intense labor (distilling and pa
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• Human Rights and Its Discontents
  ...place where you see the production process. Of course, the function of the agent is then to explode, to destroy, to [[repress]] again this [[sight]] of prod ...ter hackers, groups in which the stigmatized individuals are united by a [[secret]] bond of [[solidarity]]. In order to specify further these two communities
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• Kant and Sade: The Ideal Couple
  ...it may appear, is always grounded in some "pathological" motivation (the [[agent]]'s own long-term interest, the admiration of his peers, up to the "[[negat ...ive]] [[psychic apparatus]].6 Consequently, don't we encounter in Kant a [[secret]] homologous [[inversion]], only in the opposite direction, of the relation
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• The Interpassive Subject
  ...only means that the [[patient]] is a priori "[[guilty]]", that there is a secret [[meaning]] to be drawn from his acts). The analyst is thus not an empirici ...titude which constitutes subjectivity is not "I am the active autonomous [[agent]] who is doing it," but "when another is doing it for me, I myself am doing
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• Woman is One of the Names-of-the-Father
  ...s impossibility into the exception, into a sacred, prohibited/unattainable agent who avoids castration and is thus able really to enjoy (the primordial Fath ...sk as mask, as false pretence, in order to give rise to the search for the secret behind the mask.<ref>We can see now how the notion of femininity qua masque
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• For a Leftist Appropriation of the European Legacy
  ...did politics proper begin? With the emergence of demos as an [[active]] [[agent]] within the Greek polis: of a group which, although without any fixed plac ...Jacques [[Lacan]]'s [[matrix]] of four [[discourses]],6 the place of the 'agent' is occupied in it by [[knowledge]]: [[Marx]] presented his position as tha
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• From Joyce-the-Symptom to the Symptom of Power
  ...nstitutive idiocy, which the traditional, pre-cynical ideology had to keep secret) without in the least affecting its efficiency. ...and mutually exclusive reveal their uncanny complicity, where the solemn [[agent]] of Power suddenly starts to wink at us across the table in a gesture of o
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• Psychoanalysis in Post-Marxism: The Case of Alain Badiou
  ...truggling for the Revolution); and, last but not least, its subject (the [[agent]] who, on behalf of the Truth-Event, intervenes in the historical multiple ...hereas "proletariat" designates the operator of Truth, namely, the engaged agent of the revolutionary struggle.
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• The Iraq War: Where is The True Danger
  ...the US which is now, as the defunct USSR was decades ago, the subversive [[agent]] of a world revolution. When [[Bush]] recently said "[[Freedom]] is not Am ...d as the latest dark plot of ex-Communists enabling them to retain their [[secret]] hold on power.
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• You May
  ...[[existence]] of some Big Other: in every [[case]] what is wanted is an [[agent]] who will give [[structure]] to our chaotic social lives. ...ents. The right to privacy is, in effect, the right to commit adultery, in secret, without being observed or investigated. The right to pursue [[happiness]]
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• The Stellar Parallax: The Traps of Ontological Difference
  ...rely dramatic-narrative reasons (it first creates the enigma - what is the secret behind the glitzy surface of the Divers' marriage? - and then, after arousi ...e telling of non-all truth, does not imply that we keep some part of truth secret - its obverse is that there is nothing we did not tell. <a name="18"></a><a
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• Opera
  ...e="BOOKMAN" size="3">This couplet from the finale blurts out the obscene [[secret]] of <i>clemenza</i>: the pardon does not really abolish the debt, it rathe ...be deprived of his authority and turn into a mere figure of knowledge, the agent of the discourse of university. (This is why even a great judge is a Master
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• Is There a Proper Way to Remake a Hitchcock Film?
  ...remake, 1955), on the sunny [[Casablanca]] [[market]], the dying Western [[agent]], dressed as an Arab, stretches his hand towards the innocent American tou ...its intensity are when the action hero penetrates the master-criminal's [[secret]] domain and locates there the site of intense labor (distilling and packag
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• The Act and Its Vicissitudes
  ...] hand, I was aware of no motives. You could argue that I was not a free [[agent]], but I am more inclined to think this came nearer to being a perfectly fr ..., all attempts to treat Christianity in the same way (to uncover Christ's "secret teaching" somehow encoded in the New Testament or found in apocryphal Gospe
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• The Iraqi MacGuffin
  ...- not so much "unfair" [[anti-Semitism]], but rather, on the contrary - [[secret]] recognition of the special higher [[ethical]] standards of the [[Jews]]: ...the Arabs,Æ are, because of their unique position, the only collective [[agent]] on whom the [[role]] of the modernizer, of moving to a political [[form]]
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• Heiner Mueller Out of Joint
  ...olis</i>. Throughout the age of the Really Existing Socialism (RES), the [[secret]] hope of "democratic socialists" was the direct democracy of the "soviets, ...means that, whatever electoral manipulation took place, every political [[agent]] will unconditionally respect the results. In this sense, the US president
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• Death's Merciless Love
  ...of the Old Testament?) Which, then, is the [[Pre-oedipal|pre-Oedipal]] "[[secret]]" of Hamlet? One should retain the insight that Oedipus is a proper "myth, ...nything more humiliating than the situation of a husband who, after a long secret love affair, all of a sudden learns that his wife knew about it all the tim
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• Some Politically Incorrect Reflections on Violence in France
  ...bverse of the much-praised American individualism and self-reliance: the [[secret]] [[awareness]] that we are all helplessly thrown around by forces out of o ...esurgence of the [[figure]] of the "quiet American," a naïve benevolent [[agent]] who sincerely wants to bring to the Vietnamese [[democracy]] and Western
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• Are We in a War
  ...does not perceive itself as one of the warring sides, but as a mediating [[agent]] of peace and [[Global Order|global order]], crushing rebellion and, simul ...er the Evil [[Empire]], i.e. another territorial entity, but an illegal, [[secret]], almost [[virtual]] worldwide network in which lawlessness (criminality)
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• Parallax View
  ...three main meanings: subject as an autonomous agent; subject as this same agent submitted ("subjected") to some power; topic, "subject matter." It is not d ...e telling of non-all truth, does not imply that we keep some part of truth secret - its obverse is that there is nothing we did not tell.<ref>Can "multitude"
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• Liberation Hurts
  ...] - the [[French]] have this nice expression, le secret de Polichinelle, a secret which everybody [[knows]] about - that the Church really does not want, and ...ou know - Bond escapes and destroys it all. It's as if Bond is a kind of [[agent]] of Anthony [[Giddens]] and other sociologists who claim that there is no
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• The Iraqui MacGuffin
  ...- not so much "unfair" [[anti-Semitism]], but rather, on the contrary - [[secret]] recognition of the special higher [[ethical]] standards of the [[Jews]]: ...the Arabs,Æ are, because of their unique position, the only collective [[agent]] on whom the [[role]] of the modernizer, of moving to a political [[form]]
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• The Desert and the Real
  ...sulated artificial universe which generates the notion that some ominous [[agent]] is threatening us all the time with [[total]] [[destruction]]. ...in all its intensity is when James Bond penetrates the master-criminal's [[secret]] [[domain]] and locates there the site of intense labor (distilling and pa
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• The Thing from Inner Space
  ...he acts in a "[[feminine]]" submissive-compassionate way, as an autonomous agent. For that reason, the Weiningerian [[ontological]] denigration of woman as ..."zone", the forbidden territory in which the impossible occurs, in which [[secret]] desires are realized, in which one can find technological gadgets not yet
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• You May!
  ...[[existence]] of some Big Other: in every [[case]] what is wanted is an [[agent]] who will give [[structure]] to our chaotic social lives.<br> ...ents. The right to privacy is, in effect, the right to commit adultery, in secret, without being observed or investigated. The right to pursue [[happiness]]
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• Against The Double Blackmail
  ...[[Project]] CENSORED," the top censored story of 1998 was that of a half-[[secret]] international agreement in [[working]], called MAI (the Multilateral Agre ...ather bears [[witness]] to the fact that there is no such goal, that the [[agent]] is caught in a web of conflicting goals. So the West, in the present inte
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• From Proto-Reality to the Act
  what is therefore needed is a paradoxical [[agent]] who, by means of violence itself, too much, rendering [[visible]] some horrifying [[secret]] better left in shadow, which is why
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• Psychoanalysis and Post-Marxism
  ...truggling for the Revolution); and, last but not least, its subject (the [[agent]] who, on behalf of the Truth-Event, intervenes in the historical multiple ...hereas "proletariat" designates the operator of Truth, namely, the engaged agent of the revolutionary struggle.
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• The Big Other Doesn't Exist
  ...refuse to know, I do not [[want]] to hear, anything about your dirty and [[secret]] ways of jouissance"; a God who banishes the universe of traditional sexua ...conomy]], Lacan calls this prohibiting God the "[[real]] father" as the "[[agent]] of [[castration]]": symbolic castration is another name for the gap betwe
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• Are We in a War? Do We Have an Enemy?
  ...does not perceive itself as one of the warring sides, but as a mediating [[agent]] of peace and [[Global Order|global order]], crushing rebellion and, simul ...he [[Evil]] [[Empire]], i.e. another territorial entity, but an illegal, [[secret]], almost [[virtual]] worldwide network in which lawlessness (criminality)
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• Anarchy
  ...- a truth that lies dormant, waiting to be rediscovered. That is why the [[secret]] of the [[subject]]'s freedom lies in revealing the [[meaning]] of this so ...rming the structure of authority; because it seeks merely to put another [[agent]] in the position of authority - the worker in place of the bourgeois. "And
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• Slavoj Žižek: What is a Master-Signifier
  ...edes it as what at once makes the world over in its [[image]] and is the [[secret]] explanation of the world just as it is; something that is neither to be v ...ground noise there holds the key to the plot (and to the survival of the [[agent]] who recorded it): the bugging of a furtive lunchtime liaison of an adulte
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• The Last Hegelian: An Interview with Slavoj Zizek
  ...priest during the Turin shroud controversy, and he told me a half-public [[secret]] that the [[Church]] really does not [[want]] that shroud to be proven to ...you know-Bond escapes and destroys it all. It's as if Bond is a kind of [[agent]] of Anthony [[Giddens]] and other sociologists who claim that there is no
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• Tuché and Automaton
  ...es. But this 'sliding-away' <i>(glissement) </i>conceals what is the true secret of the ludic, namely, the most radical diversity constituted by repetition ...akes up for the effect of his mother's disappearance by making himself the agent of it-but, this phenomenon is of secondary importance. Wallon stresses tha
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• Hallucination as Ideology in Cinema
  ...Albrecht, these two appearances communicating. Albrecht tells Aels the big secret that he really loves Octavia and that he is here to bid her farewell; after ...mited to that of the young girl, Harlan strangely opted for disclosing the secret of the mother's disappearance (plague) immediately, so that the spectator k
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• Stalinism
  ...zerzhinsky, the founder of Cheka (later GPU,NKVD, KGB...), the Bolshevik [[secret]] police: as a rule, he is portrayed as what [[Deleuze]] would have called ...while the bloody terror of the [[Nazis]] in point of fact had been kept a secret from the [[German]] people." <ref>Quoted in Berel Lang, ''op.cit.'', p. 21.
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• Against the Populist Temptation
  ...ticular]] social group (the [[working class]]) as a privileged [[political agent]]; this privilege is not itself the outcome of hegemonic struggle, but grou ...lance]] and [[justice]]; symmetrically, our own - the populist [[political agent]]'s - [[identity]] is also perceived as pre-existing the enemy's onslaught.
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• The Sublime Theorist of Slovenia
  ...]. This substantial core is that "[[being]] of [[semblance]]," the human [[agent]], whose only real consistency is jouissance. At the heart of the subject i ...u need detailed maps. Now under the Yugoslav regime, the maps were a state secret. It was only possible to buy maps that not only were not very detailed, but
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• The Death Drive and the Missed Encounter
  ...es. But this 'sliding-away' <i>(glissement) </i>conceals what is the true secret of the ludic, namely, the most radical diversity constituted by repetition ...akes up for the effect of his mother's disappearance by making himself the agent of it-but, this phenomenon is of secondary importance. Wallon stresses tha
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• Badiou: Notes From an Ongoing Debate
  ...[[the Matrix]], he says: “Everyone who is not unplugged is a potential [[agent]].”). ...still unsurpassed with its designation of the [[Jewish]] [[enemy]] as the agent of the “plutocratic-bolshevik plot.” In this designation, the [[mechani
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• Seminar on 'The Purloined Letter'
  ..., nor does he fail to notice the Queen's distress and thus to fathom her [[secret]]. From then on everything transpires like clockwork. After dealing in his ...trick before our eyes, without deceiving us this time about divulging his secret, but pressing his wager to the point of really explaining it to us without
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• Robespierre or the "Divine Violence" of Terror
  ...big Other. If it is extra-moral, it is not "immoral," it does not give the agent the license to just kill with some kind of angelic innocence. The motto of ...ich formulates the "objective meaning" of your acts), but also the present agent who already has the unique ability to judge today's events and acts from th
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• Mao Zedong: the Marxist Lord of Misrule
  ...wrong country"; from workers to (poor) peasants as the main revolutionary agent, etc. In the same way as Christ needed Paul's "betrayal" in order for Chris ...Secret Admirer in the Caucasus</i> <ref>Georgi M. Derluguian, ''Bourdieu's Secret Admirer in the Caucasus'', Chicago: The University of Chicago Press 2005.
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• Censorship Today: Violence, or Ecology as a New Opium for the Masses
  ...]] in [[human]] history, [[The Act|the act]] of a single socio-political [[agent]] effectively can alter and even interrupt the global historical [[process] ...nt (dying of cancer, in financial difficulties), but trying to keep this [[secret]] from his nearest and dearest...<br /><br /> And this is also our problem
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• On Alain Badiou and Logiques des mondes
  ...dge, while the bloody terror of the Nazis in point of fact had been kept a secret from the German people." [[On Alain Badiou and Logiques des mondes#Notes|1] ...itical inefficiency, moral degeneration... and the Nazis provided a single agent which accounted for it all - the Jew, the Jewish plot. Therein resides the
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• Radical Evil as a Freudian Category
  ...t," the one without a [[proper place]] in the [[social edifice]] – as an agent of universality of the Social as such. The paradox is thus a very precise o ...s it may appear, is always grounded in some "pathological" motivation (the agent's own long-term interest, the admiration of his peers, up to the "[[negativ
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