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Slavoj Žižek

Object a and the Function of Ideology

Slavoj Žižek
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Jonathan
Jul 2, 20262012
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Slavoj Žižek talking about the structure of belief and the mediation of desire. In this lecture Slavoj Žižek discusses his polemic with Badiou on the notion of subtraction as a political and philosophical category, object a as cause of desire, the event, inconsistency in the symbolic order and the function of the master signifier in relationship to Jacques Lacan, Alain Badiou, Karl Marx, Michel Foucault, Jacques Rancière and Charles Darwin focusing on singular universality, the supernumerary ...

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Okay, now nonetheless, to be a little bit of theory but more, hate is idiots. Although it's ambiguous, maybe. I mean, you saw idiots. What is your reading? Does he celebrate this, you know, let's esta

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