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...of all a [[meaning]]less [[material]] element in a ''closed differential [[system]]''; this "'''signifier without the signified'''" is called by [[Lacan]] th ...is not a [[system]] of [[sign]]s -- as it was for [[Saussure]] -- but a [[system]] of [[signifier]]s.

...d the [[nature]] of the sign within a [[Convention (norm)|convention]]al [[system]]. These theories have had a lasting effect in [[Western philosophy]], espe ...eer, beginning with the triadic relation just described, and ending with a system consisting of 59,049 possible elements and relations. One [[reason]] for th

In ''The Fashion [[System]]'' Barthes showed how this adulteration of signs could easily be translate ...f system. That is to say, without some regular standard of measurement, a system of criticism that references [[nothing]] [[outside]] of the actual work its

.... He retains the main concepts but juggles with [[them]] to create a new [[system]] of thought. A subtle thinker, he offers us a rigorous reformulation of Fr ...[signification]] retrospectively, after the fact, no signification is ever closed, ever [[satisfied]].11 Each word is only definable in [[terms]] of other wo

...tion two supreme examples from it: What to do if an alligator has its jaws closed on your limb? (Answer: you should tap or punch it on the snout, because all ...ife, in the speculative movement of [[money]] begetting more money, of a [[system]] which can survive only by constantly revolutionizing its own conditions,

...ention also Brian Aldiss' Starship, in which members of a tribe leave in a closed world of a tunnel in a giant starship, isolated from the rest of the ship b ...by Neo in the last scene. As the result of Neo's intervention, there is a "SYSTEM FAILURE" in the Matrix; at the same time, Neo addresses people still caught

...t Hindu cosmology first copied onto the social order in the guise of the [[system]] of castes, and then onto the individual organism itself in the guise of t ...ut it is [[impossible]] to imagine a much more modest change of the social system — as if, even if the whole life on earth disappears, capitalism will some

...this reasoning resides? First, it reduces a historical constellation to a closed, fully contextualized, [[situation]] in which the “objective” consequen ...ed that this freedom involved wild privatization, the dismantling of the [[system]] of [[social]] security, etc. etc. — they still have the freedom to choo

...this reasoning resides? First, it reduces a historical constellation to a closed, fully contextualized situation in which the "[[objective]]" consequences o ...al life, in the speculative movement of money begetting more money, of a [[system]] that can survive only by constantly revolutionizing its own conditions, t

...of the Absolute, it is too modest: it silently reduces Hegel's logic to a system of global epistemology, of all possible epistemological stances, and what g ...f modernity of its antagonism, of the way it is embedded in the capitalist system, by relegating this aspect just to one of its historical subspecies. (One s

...torture and humiliation one has to undergo in order to be accepted into a closed community. Do we not see similar photos in regular intervals in the US pres ...ith the military power [[system]], he turned into the [[excess]] which the system has to eliminate. The ultimate horizon of <i>Apocalypse Now</i> is this ins

...onvinced that radical change of the existing liberal-democratic capitalist system is no longer possible, but who are unable to [[renounce]] their passionate

...this reasoning resides? First, it reduces a historical constellation to a closed, fully contextualized [[situation]] in which the “objective” consequenc ...nswer is yes, it is of secondary importance if the state has a one-party [[system]]. If the answer is no, it is of secondary importance if we have parliament

...ention also Brian Aldiss' Starship, in which members of a tribe leave in a closed world of a tunnel in a giant starship, isolated from the rest of the ship b ...by Neo in the last scene. As the result of Neo's intervention, there is a "SYSTEM FAILURE" in the Matrix; at the same time, Neo addresses people still caught

...a), until, finally, the focus of the conflict returned to Kosovo - as in a closed loop of Destiny, the arrow returned to the one who lanced it by way of sett ...g that his crime is the result of social [[pathology]] of the capitalist [[system]]. The way to fight the capitalist New World Order is not by supporting loc

...on, when we were [[walking]] through the streets before the tobacco stands closed, I was saying to you precisely ''about the outside''. Yes, there is an out ...cial]] [[stability]] can supply illumination concerning the stability of a system in general) one day elaborated the theory, I mean in a [[dictionary]]. (And

...was in his early teens where he attended a High School based on the German system of rigorous drilling in a classical education. He won't admit to being exce ...ive model is the [[hysteric]] who struggles and resists their place in the system, [[knows]] it's a "fundamental lie" and remains "open". Their ambivalent at

...o interpret, intervene and transform the symbolic coordinates of any given system of meaning. When we try to follow Zizek's attempt to combine the different ...make. As if. This leads us to the first question. There is no theoretical system as such in Zizek's work, but it often seems as if there is one. How do we a

...zes all significant 'postmodern' thought: the problem of what to say about closed systems, systems of which there is no external standard of judgement, in wh ...e not only elaborating a particular subject as the name of a philosophical system or a philosophy that will come to be known by a particular name, but - alth

...dernity from its antagonism, from the way it is embedded in the capitalist system, by relegating this aspect to just one of its historical subspecies. (One s ...r activity into an end in itself. We become humans when we get caught in a closed, self-propelling loop of [[repeating]] the same gesture and finding [[satis

...ate differential elements and of combining them according to the laws of a closed order. ...dulatory variability to which this term applies, but rather the synchronic system of differential couplings necessary for the discernment of sounds in a give

...han the [[difference]] between two series of associations, one of which is closed and the [[other]] open-ended. The specific role of language is to produce [ ...view that at an early, prelinguistic [[stage]], the preconscious-conscious system binds the affects with ideational representatives in a process that is the

...cs]], which states that the [[total]] amount of matter and energy in any [[system]] under study, which undergoes any transformation or [[process]], is conser ...ts, is [[divided]] up into a [[number]] of interactive relatively [[closed system]]s. The total set of such mental systems takes in energy via sensor input,

...training. A few psychoanalytic clinics were established, though they soon closed for [[lack]] of financing. There were the Therapeutikum (from 1924 to 1928, ...chotherapy possible. In 1960 the "Munich [[model]]" was instituted; this [[system]] involved the sharing of medical expenses among the government (for employ

...e the evils of society not in something that is inherent in the economic [[system]], but quite the opposite: in the abuse of power by parasitic and speculati ...universal]] [[symbol]] of what is wrong with the old [[Welfare]] [[State]] system - all "[[social evils]]" were somehow reduced to this figure (state budget

...y from its antagonism, from the way it is embedded in the [[capitalist]] [[system]], by relegating this aspect to just one of its historical subspecies. (One ...r activity into an end in itself. We become humans when we get caught in a closed, self-propelling loop of [[repeating]] the same gesture and finding [[satis

...s [[Copernicus]] (1473-1543) pushed humanity to the margins of the solar [[system]] by showing that the Earth orbited the Sun rather than the other way round ...particularity]] or any individuality: I am nothing but the point where the system, or [[the Symbolic]], speaks. But this cannot be [[right]] either. How, for

...han the [[difference]] between two series of associations, one of which is closed and the [[other]] open-ended. The specific role of language is to produce [ ...view that at an early, prelinguistic [[stage]], the preconscious-conscious system binds the affects with ideational representatives in a process that is the

and of combining them according to the laws of a closed order.<br><br> chronic [[system]] of differential couplings necessary for the discernment of<br>

...and sometimes of constituting a totally incomprehensible '[[psychotic]]' [[system]]. This obscurity has even been seen as a (deliberate attempt to ensure tha ...stence]], since they are each defined by their mutual differences; it is a closed, [[self]]-referential structure in which [[meaning]] is nowhere fully [[pre

...>$ A$ indicate a place essential with the structure of [[the symbolic]] [[system]].</blockquote> * <blockquote>The structure of what is closed is an edge</blockquote>

...tive of Lacanians devoted to analysing the [[signs]] of everyday [[life]] (closed 2016 but contributions remain) Weightman JACQUES LACAN. An [[Outline]] of a Life and History of a [[System]] of

What can be more "totalitarian" than this closed loop of "your very fear of being guilty makes you guilty" - a weird supereg ...to the universe as a whole, though it might be a major event for the solar system."("The Chinese People Cannot Be Cowed by the Atom Bomb")

...t to get him to shut up. When the photographer tells him to keep his mouth closed for the pictures, he dutifully obeys for [[about]] two seconds before launc ...[liberals]] who have moved on to make their peace with the [[political]] [[system]]. It has won him some interesting [[intellectual]] bedfellows, and a few e

...cle creates that which it endeavors to control. Are we then dealing with a closed circle of a process positing one's own presuppositions? <br /> ...z, as if, universe of [[meaning]].) If madness is constitutive, then EVERY system of meaning is minimally paranoiac, "mad."<br />

...y of "God seeing Himself" has nothing whatsoever to do with the harmonious closed loop of "seeing myself seeing," of an Eye seeing itself and enjoying the si ...omedy, he immediately IS this character. The gap of representation is thus closed, exactly as in the case of Christ who, in contrast to previous pagan divini

...rther and leaves behind the old topic of nature as fully determined in its closed circular movement versus man as a being of [[openness]] and existential fre ...is one of the hidden, not yet fully exploited, treasures of the Hegelian [[system]], where we find the clearest traces of what one cannot but name the [[dial

...a), until, finally, the focus of the conflict returned to Kosovo - as in a closed loop of Destiny, the arrow returned to the one who lanced it by way of sett ...g that his crime is the result of social [[pathology]] of the capitalist [[system]]. The way to fight the capitalist New World Order is not by supporting loc

In contrast to those who see the Phenomenology as a closed system ending with Absolute Spirit, Jameson’s reading presents an open work in w

...day no more than a thinking chip on a secondary planet in an average solar system on the edges of a banal galaxy?</span> ...ate state protecting the oligarchies. No hierarchy of work. No nations, no closed and hostile identities. Collective organization of everything that has a co

...n of the political – as a State based on the supposed existence of great closed collectives – it has never been, in the history of Leninism, and later of

...pirical objects: we arrive at it by way of treating this endless series as closed, and positing outside of it an empty object, the very form of object, that ...is endless series caught in the logic of "spurious infinity" is totalized, closed, rendered all, by the fall of the body whose Real stands for the subject it

..., etc.) convincingly demonstrates how, in their effort to break out of the closed circle of philosophy, to assert a point of reference outside the horizon of ...se as the very epitome of the madness of philosophy, of its crazy paranoid system-building (cf. the "philosopher as madman" motif in the late Wittgenstein).

...s something "rotten" (antagonistic, inconsistent) in the very heart of the System. This is why the anti-Hegelian rhetoric which insists on how Hegel's totali ...an system―it is surely the duty of every ethical subject to fight such a system with all means possible, including the physical removal, murder if necessar

...f political philosophy, from Popper to Arendt: Plato as the originator of "closed society," as the first thinker who elaborated in detail the project of tota ...f God" makes him (together with Plato) one of the main forerunners of the "closed society" – there is a straight line from Hegelian totality to political t