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Sooner or later, we become aware of inconsistencies in the
Sooner or later, we become aware of inconsistencies in the notional schemes we are using to understand the situation: something which should have been...

Therefore, it is so greatly mistaken that my doctrine of the
Therefore, it is so greatly mistaken that my doctrine of the ideality of space and time makes the whole sensible world a mere illusion, that, on the c...

Psychoanalysis always involves a tricky and unstable balance
Psychoanalysis always involves a tricky and unstable balance between the theorisation of an eternal human psyche and the historical singularity of cul...

Žižek: Measured by his own standards of what a rational state
Žižek: Measured by his own standards of what a rational state should be, Hegel was perhaps wrong to fear universal democratic suffrage (see his nerv...

Žižek: If you were to ask me at gunpoint, like Hollywood
Žižek: If you were to ask me at gunpoint, like Hollywood producers who are too stupid to read books and say, “give me the punchline,” and were t...

Ž: We all know that, in today’s global capitalism with its
Ž: We all know that, in today’s global capitalism with its spectacular but deeply uneven development, there are more and more people who are system...

The prospect of the Occupy Wall Street movement taking power and
The prospect of the Occupy Wall Street movement taking power and establishing a people’s democracy on the island of Manhattan is so patently absurd,...

On ‘our’ side, it’s the return of the teach-in, the various
On ‘our’ side, it’s the return of the teach-in, the various free universities, open access blogospheric autonomous discourse. Everyone involved ...