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  • ...l '''[[nature|animals]]''' -- but a uniquely [[act|''human'' act]], "since to our [[knowledge]] there is no [[other]] [[act]] but the [[human]] one."<ref ...ct]] which he claims was un[[intention]]al, but which [[analysis]] reveals to be the expression of an '''[[unconscious]] [[desire]]'''.
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  • [[Lacan]] begins to use the term "[[demand]]" in 1958. ...of the '''[[helplessness|human infant]]''' -- its '''call''' (''l'appel'') to the '''[[mother]]''' -- is not merely an [[instinct|instinctual signal]] bu
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  • ...dministrative command. In order to properly measure the impact of The Road to Terror, one should start with the [[paradox]] of the revolutionary sacrific ...As such, the Khmer Rouge [[regime]] was a kind of [[political]] equivalent to the famous publicity description of the Linda Fiorentino utterly [[evil]] [
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  • ...hite guards were directly attacking us, then you will have only yourselves to blame if we treat you as the worst and most pernicious white guard elements ...a proof of Socialism’s utter failure, i.e. of the failure of the attempt to legitimize Socialist regimes — the term “Really Existing Socialism” p
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  • ...the choices that may disturb the [[public]] (say, a person whose choice is to be and act as a racist is a priori excluded). ...ke a difference. Phenomena like these make it all the more necessary today to reassert [[Lenin]]'s opposition of "[[formal]]" and "actual" freedom. Let u
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  • ...rturer, his regime a criminal catastrophe, but the attack on Iraq destined to overthrow Saddam will cost too much… ...cy]] to Iraq," but just of getting rid of the [[nightmare]] called Saddam. To this majority, the caution expressed by Western [[liberals]] cannot but app
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  • ...f="#1x">1</a> The paradox is thus that the roles are reversed (with regard to the standard notion of the active subject working on the passive object): t ...NG of myself as standing outside AND inside my picture, that bears witness to my "material existence." Materialism means that the reality I see is never
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  • According to a commonplace, [[Judaism]] (and [[Islam]]) is a "pure" [[monotheism]], whil ...ludes self-differentiation into the One - its lesson is that, in [[order]] to have truly One, you [[need]] THREE.
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  • ...n belonging to the Orient, the location of Islam makes it a fatal obstacle to the [[true]] union of the East and the West – the point made exemplarily ...yond Christianity itself. It is then that the West has lost its [[chance]] to remain [[woman]]. [[A Glance into the Archives of Islam#Notes|1]]</blockquo
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  • ...s it turns revolution into a [[moral obligation]], into something we ought to do while we fight the inertia of the [[capitalist]] [[present]]. ...ned an unfinished [[project]], so our task should be to bring this project to completion; (2) the one associated with [[Adorno]]'s and [[Horkheimer]]'s "
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  • ...arton's "age of innocence": Newton's wife, the "innocent" the title refers to, was not a naïve believer in her husband's fidelity - she knew well of his ...et themselves be caught in the symbolic [[deception]]/fiction and continue to believe their eyes are the ones who err most.<br><br>
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  • ...reject it? Is such an unambiguous attack not a sine qua non if we [[want]] to make it clear that we are not covert racists attacking only the [[fundament ...ses]] as his prophet, nonetheless thinks that Jews have a divine [[right]] to the land of [[Israel]]?)
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  • ...ll, formal legalism: its minimal definition is the unconditional adherence to a certain set of formal rules which guarantee that antagonisms are fully ab ...d democracy, and that some kind of enlightened despotism whose aim will be to educate the majority into proper democrats is preferable.
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  • ...ect it? Is such an unambiguous attack not a <i>sine qua non</i> if we want to make it clear that we are not covert racists attacking only the fundamental ...down and contextualize it to make it clear that Jews are collectively not to be blamed for the Crucifixion... The problem of such a stance is that, in t
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  • If you [[want]] to [[understand]] why the [[Bush]] administration invaded [[Iraq]], read [[Fre ...of inconsistent arguments, of course, confirms precisely what it endeavors to deny: that you, in fact, did borrow and break the kettle.
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  • ...dical chic allowed and excused in advance to the eccentric [[artist]], and to see if it can be justified on The [[case]] against Mueller seems clear.<br> ...ple of decades ago, the special entrances which enable [[them]] the access to restaurants, theatres, etc., would have been unthinkable.<br><br>
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  • ...t as an [[obsessional]] [[neurotic]] points in this direction: in contrast to [[hysteria]] which is found throughout all (at least Western) [[history]], ...e, i.e. did the Ancients use their astronomical [[knowledge]] in [[order]] to encode insights into fundamental libidinal deadlocks of the [[human]] [[rac
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  • ...function as the moment of theoretical reflection of-one is almost tempted to say: are embedded in-an actual global movement of anti-capitalist resistanc ...">4</a></b></tt> only becomes possible when "the multitude is finally able to rule itself." <tt><b><a name="5x"></a><a href="#5">5</a></b></tt><br><br>
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  • ...] era" has any [[sense]], it is here. Is this sad fact that the opposition to the [[system]] cannot articulate itself in the guise of a realistic alterna ...ing in the easily predictable racist REACTION of the French populist crowd to them.
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  • ...Groundwork of the Metaphysic of Morals]]''. It is outlined here according to the arguments found in this [[work]]. ...] would compel action under a [[particular]] circumstance: ''If I [[wish]] to [[satisfy]] my thirst, then I must drink this lemonade''. A categorical im
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  • According to Lacan, psychoanalysis is a science. ...ld only do this scientifically if we rejected everything that we had cause to doubt and then saw what remained with certainty as true.
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  • ...titious L.A.-based Counter Terrorist Unit (CTU) as it desperately attempts to thwart a catastrophic terrorist attack. (In season four, they stopped a st ...f the break in our, the spectators’, real [[time]] is exactly equivalent to the [[temporal]] gap in the on-screen [[narrative]], as if the events nonet
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  • ...assion]] even before its release seem unassailable: Are they not justified to worry that the [[film]], made by a fanatic [[Catholic]] known for occasiona ...it then not the [[duty]] of every [[West]]ern [[secularist]] to reject it, to make it clear that we are not covert [[racist]]s attacking only the [[funda
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  • ...[dead]]? His insensitivity toward personal freedoms is effectively foreign to our [[liberal]]-tolerant sensibility – who, today, would not [[experience ...hite guards were directly attacking us, then you will have only yourselves to blame if we treat you as the worst and most pernicious white guard elements
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  • ...to reject it? Is such an unambiguous attack not a sine qua non if we want to make it clear that we are not covert racists attacking only the fundamental ...down and contextualize it to make it clear that Jews are collectively not to be blamed for the Crucifixion... The problem of such a stance is that, in t
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  • ...than they are willing to admit" and it would be hypocritical for [[them]] to do so?<br><br> ...t is as if the [[form]] of spirituality, the ultimate, I am almost tempted to say, iconoclastic spirituality (which it is no wonder that the central [[re
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  • ...tic Third Way to the Christian conservatives, from Chirac to Clinton - not to mention, of course, the Israeli regime - all voiced 'dismay' and announced ...s the Rightist scare the better to hegemonize the 'democratic' field, i.e. to define the terrain and discipline its real adversary, the radical Left. The
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  • ...pears within the diegetic [[space]] of cinematic [[narrative]] - in short, to [[speak]] about [[films]] whose narrative deals with some impossible/trauma ...es that we eject into reality... This intrusion of the massive Thing seems to bring relief, canceling the <i>horror vacui</i> of staring at the infinite
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  • ...simply playing [[games]] with the [[Paris]] [[intellectual]] [[community]] to Even Lacanians might find it in their hearts to forgive Chomsky
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  • ...ly conclusion will be that Western academia is caught in an obscure desire to self-destruct.' (Yannis Stavrakakis, author of <i>Lacan and the Political</ ...rrently in circulation. A good way of starting this assessment of Zizek is to go back and start again from scratch, now from the position of those who ar
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  • ...h other theorist, for example, would allow himself the following one-liner to illustrate the psychoanalytic concept of the phallus: 'What is the lightest ...th the basin full of water, so that the shit floats in it, visible but not to be inspected? (PF, 4)</font></p>
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  • ...and popular [[culture]] in such books as [[Looking]] Awry: An Introduction to [[Jacques Lacan]] Through Popular Culture and [[Enjoy]] the [[Symptom]]! Ja ...ten over two-dozen books ranging from Lacan, Kant, Hegel, and [[Deleuze]], to [[Hitchcock]], [[David Lynch]], and Krzystof [[Kieslowski]]. [[Born]] in 19
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  • ...title 'The topic of [[the imaginary]]'. Such a [[subject]] is quite enough to fill up several years of teaching, but since several questions concerning t ...interplay of those [[three]] grand [[terms]] we have already had occasion to make much of- the imaginary, [[the symbolic]], and the [[real]].<br>
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  • ...81-99.</ref> [[Lacan]] uses [[Freud]]'s [[German]] term, ''[[Bejahung]]'' to denote this primordial [[affirmation]].<ref>{{Ec}} p. 387</ref> ...evel of ''[[Bejahung]]'') can the [[value]] of [[existence]] be attributed to it or not (''[[negation]]'').
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  • ...ft in emphasis from the [[Oedipus complex|Oedipal]] [[structure|triangle]] to the [[mother]]-[[child]] [[dual relation|relation]]. ...[[frustrate]] a [[child]] in this way was [[thought]] by some [[analyst]]s to be a major factor in the aetiology of [[neurosis]].
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  • ...a detailed account of how the Bolshevik movement related to [[medicine]], to doctors taking care of the Leaders; [[three]] documents are crucial here:<b ...ccumbed to this deviation because of his bad nerves, and advises him to go to Switzerland and get there the best medical [[treatment]]. In one of the let
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  • ...liberalism]], to [[Chirac]] and the [[present]] [[French]] [[government]], to the influx of the [[immigrant]] [[workers]] from [[Poland]] who lower the [ ...ed]] to mobilize [[people]] in the guise of [[civil society]] initiatives, to engage them more in a [[political]] [[process]]. However, when people awak
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  • ...philosophy]], I have often alluded to language. In this chapter I [[want]] to focus on [[Lacan]]'s constantly changing (and [[complex]]) view of language ...but instead as sources of meaning. The facts of [[desire]] are as [[real]] to the [[subject]] as the facts of [[nature]] viewed by positive [[science]].
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  • ...ns to the study of <i>[[Hamlet]]</i> (1953, [[1968]]) and Freud's approach to [[literature]] (1968). He wrote [[about]] ageing and [[death]], and his boo ...ined the Viennese Psychoanalytic [[Society]]. There he became an assistant to August Aichhorn, a pioneer in the study and [[treatment]] of adolescent del
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  • ...ole]] of heredity in the etiology of the [[neuroses]]. The article goes on to provide a [[complete]] exposition of Freud's [[thoughts]] on the [[sexual]] ...ded on to us by our teacher" (1896a, 143). Heredity is only a "condition," to borrow the term used in the distinction already made the year before (1895f
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  • </b> <font size="+2"> At this point I propose to leave the dark and dismal [[subject]]<br> of the [[traumatic]] [[neurosis]] and [[pass]] on to examine the method<br>
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  • ...ks of the [[analyst]]. Many of the themes discussed so far in the book are to be found in this lecture. ...gainst it? The most innocent [[intention]] is disconcerted at being unable to conceal the fact that one's unsuccessful [[acts]] are the most successful a
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  • ...[[need]], evoked by Badiou, to [[control]] oneself (when Morpheus explains to Neo the lot of ordinary [[people]] totally caught (“plugged”) in [[the ...cratic reaction to Athenian [[democracy]], but the Plato who was the first to clearly assert the field of [[rationality]] freed from inherited beliefs.
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  • ....org Analytica] -- Analytica is a research and training association linked to the New [[Clinic]], both founded in 2000 by Dr. Scott Von and associates fo ...ompass.com/ Lacanian Compass] -- The Lacanian Compass is a group dedicated to the [[development]] and promotion of the Lacanian Orientation of Psychoanal
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  • ...reply-to-my-critics-concerning-an-engagement-with-jordan-peterson/ A Reply to my Critics Concerning an Engagement with Jordan Peterson] ...t abuse the happiness industry – it was used exactly how it was intended to be]
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  • ...e of the French Revolution flared up again. The liberal revisionists tried to impose the notion that the demise of Communism in 1989 occurred at exactly ...from its consequences and gather the courage to say B - the terror needed to really defend and assert the A.<ref>For a balanced historical description o
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  • ...d [[left]] journals and academic conference plenaries, Zizek usually seems to be lampooning himself. ...s a calculated bid to one-up a [[French]] academy that had attached itself to Jerry Lewis.
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  • ...ditional Russians, the exact opposite hold: "It was always a Western fancy to see Lenin and Stalin as 'Oriental' despots. The great Russian tyrants in th ...attributing it to a foreign intruder (the "bad" Engels who was too stupid to understand Marx's dialectics, the "bad" Lenin who didn't get the core of Ma
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  • ...ed]] like a [[language]] implies that for something to be repressed it has to have been previously acknowledged by the [[subject]], implying prior [[reco ...a phenomenon not to be confused with [[projection]], which is not specific to psychosis.
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  • ...gar anti-Americanism). From this perspective, where the main task today is to fight "the American [[empire]]," any ally is [[good]] if it is anti-America ...ally-found [[formula]] of the best possible [[society]], all one can do is to render it more just, tolerant, etc. The only [[true]] question today is: do
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  • ...sm? In a letter to Herbert Marcuse from 20 January 1948, Heidegger wrote: "To the serious legitimate charges that you express 'about a regime that murder Perhaps, Badiou's matrix of four basic responses to an Event (the faithful subject; the reactive subject; the obscure subject;
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  • ...], and, then, enslaved to the new rules, are [[forced]] to build monuments to their own revolutionary [[past]]? This revolutionary is thus effectively a ...not that it is [[false]], but that the US administration has no [[right]] to utter it without admitting its own [[responsibility]] in Saddam’s stay in
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  • ...he worst [[evil]] subjection to the will of [[another]]; however, Kant has to concede that man does not emerge as a free mature rational agent spontaneou ...lways look like an external [[necessity]] that we have good reasons to try to avoid. This creates the problem of a [[form]] of [[dependence]] that can be
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  • * [[The Return to Hegel]] | 2009 * [[Welcome to the Desert of Post-Ideology]] | 23. August 2012
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  • ..."book-info"><div class="book-info__title">Terrorism and Communism: A Reply to Karl Kautsky - Leon Trotsky, Slavoj Žižek</div><div class="book-info__lea | "Terrorism and Communism: A Reply to Karl Kautsky"
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  • * [[Looking Awry - An Introduction to Jacques Lacan through Popular Culture]] * [[Terrorism And Communism - A Reply To Karl Kautsky]]
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  • ...d5=2D3AF2D26076F734DFF586636B4B1006 Political Theory and Film: From Adorno to Zizek ,] ...ing You Always Wanted to [[Know]] [[about]] [[Literature]] but Were Afraid to Ask Žižek ,
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  • ...d5=2D3AF2D26076F734DFF586636B4B1006 Political Theory and Film: From Adorno to Zizek] ...ing You Always Wanted to [[Know]] [[about]] [[Literature]] but Were Afraid to Ask Žižek
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  • =‘Traversing the Fantasy: Critical Responses to Slavoj Žižek’ by Geoff M. Boucher, Jason Glynos &amp; Matthew Sharpe= ...contribution to contemporary [[theoretical]] debate and adds significantly to the growing [[literature]] on Žižek.</div>
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  • ...s in the air, particularly if we analyze its background in detail in order to clarify its effect, the mixture of Marxist and Existentialist thought proce
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  • ...autobiographical study of Althusser’s intellectual development from 1945 to 1975, given on the occasion of his reception of a doctorate at the Universi The political thought of the ‘new’ Althusser is presented to English readers in a special introduction by his pupil Grahame Lock, which
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  • ...1971) had an enormous influence on the New Left of the 1960s and continues to influence modern Marxist scholarship.
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  • ...[[Books/Slavoj_Zizek/Repeating_Zizek|"Repeat­ing Žižek"], ded­ic­ated to my work, Jamil Khader notes how some con­trib­ut­ors inter­rog­ate ...ia, Bri­tain or France. As such, he per­forms the role of the hys­teric to the master's dis­course of a stoic­ally unfazed Badiou."
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  • ''From Kant to Hegel, Again'' ...ctical movement enables us to grasp the Whole of reality, i.e., the return to pre-critical general ontology… But what if the actual situation is quite
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  • ...to die in order to be reborn as the eternal Life-Goddess, from Molly Bloom to Anna Livia Plurabelle), is the supreme Catholic act. ...meaning: enjoy-meant) proliferates in all directions. The true counterpart to Joyce is, of course, Samuel Becket: after his early period in which he more
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  • ...how all anti-philosophical efforts to determine this Other remain indebted to a frame of philosophical categories. ...lists, up to Dawkins today), ''and'' religion (God) enters as the solution to (solipsistic) madness (Descartes).
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  • ...ulative, non-interpretable core of his philosophy. Hegel's statements have to shock us, and this excess cannot be explained away through interpretation s ...estication" of Hegel and defend Hegel's "madness": Hegel's statements have to shock us, and this excess cannot be explained away through interpretation s
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  • ...es and believing that one merely acts. When a character in a comedy feigns to believe or just acts as if he believes, he enacts (in his external behavior ...Althusser's theory of the Ideological State Apparatuses (ISAs). According to Althusser, what distinguishes the State from other social apparatuses is th
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  • ...lready outlines the "limits within which it is impossible for our teaching to ignore the structuring moments of Hegel's phenomenology": ...identity is realized as disjunctive of the subject, and without appealing to the future.
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  • ...and in the re-affirmation of Narcissus, blended with the world. It is easy to imagine what polemical reactions were triggered by this thesis; it is rejec ...the cultural debates triggered by ''The Culture of Narcissism'' were quick to forget the fact that the notion of narcissism is not merely an abstract mor
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  • ...sthetically enjoyable and, as such, edifying and permissible, ugliness has to remain as a foil of the beautiful. Ugliness for the sake of itself is a pat ...Hegelian deployment of all the modalities of the ugly, from formless chaos to the perverted distortions of the beautiful. The basic matrix of his concept
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