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Was 9/11 not the 20th congress of the American Dream?

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The same rightists who decades ago were shouting, 'Better dead than red!' are now often heard mumbling, 'Better red than eating hamburgers.

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Since, in our societies, a gendered division of labor still predominates which confers a male twist on basic liberal categories (autonomy, public acti...more

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In this way the world market is, with regard to its immanent dynamic, 'a space in which everyone has once been a productive labourer, and in which lab...more

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When we are shown scenes of starving children in Africa, with a call for us to do something to help them, the underlying ideological message is someth...more

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If Stalin gives you a love advice, it has to succeed.

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Liberal attitudes towards the other are characterized both by respect for otherness, openness to it, and an obsessive fear of harassment. In short, th...more

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The Deleuzian philosopher Brian Massumi clearly formulated how today's capitalism has already overcome the logic of totalizing normality and adopts in...more

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But what about the apparent absurdity of the idea of dignity, freedom, and reason, sustained by extreme military discipline, including of the practice...more

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If the secret core of potlatch is the reciprocity of exchange, why is this reciprocity not asserted directly, why does it assume the “mystified” form ...more

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Recall Marx’s fundamental insight about the “bourgeois” limitation of the logic of equality: capitalist inequalities (“exploitation”) are not the “unp...more

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as soon as we renounce fiction and illusion, we lose reality itself; the moment we subtract fictions from reality, reality itself loses its discursive...more

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We feel free because we lack the very language to articulate our unfreedom.