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Showing 1 to 20 of 21 for “"Zizek"”.
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Analyse critique du projet politique de Slavoj Zizek
… pour objectif d'explorer les travaux de Slavoj Zizek afin de voir si le projet marxiste pouvait bénéficier des acquis de la post-modernité et ainsi se présenter comme un projet politique viable aujourd'hui. Slavoj Zizek, philosophe et psychanalyste slovène est en effet mieux connu pour ses …
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TOWARDS A POINTAL ECCLESIOLOGY: ZIZEK AND BADIOU IN THEOLOGICAL CONVERSATION
… subject,” followed by an examination of Slavoj Zizek’s materialist theology, undertaken with a view to what they can say to inform the modem Western Church. Though the thrust of their work is primarily political and ethical in nature, Zizek and Badiou will be drawn upon here to construct an …
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Slavoj Zizek, Radical Theology, and the Materialist Defense of Christianity
This thesis explores the theological assertions of the philosopher Slavoj Žižek. Žižek, an atheist and a materialist, has produced a rather substantial body of work concerning Christianity in general and Christian theology specifically. My aim here is several. First, to provide an intellectual …
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The transience of the interior self: Exploring the lost Real within a creative visual praxis
… interior self as explored by the theorist Slavoj Zizek. Theoretically, the notion of the interior self is defined as a transient state of co-existing contradictions. Its definition is located in Zizek’s reading of Jacques Lacan’ s triad of orders that comprise the thinking self (Zizek, 2007a, p. …
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Indentity-in-motion : the narrative duration of the dis/continous film moment
… film theor), and philosophers. such as Slavoj Zizek. Gilles Deletize, and Maurice Merleau-Ponty. An encounter with a moment of image suspension. a cut to the blank screen- in Tacita Dean's film, Disappearance atSea (1996). motivates the beginning of this journey's narrative. My reading of this …
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The encounter with the real and post-Soviet trauma : fantasy construction in Russian popular cinema /
… Jacques Lacan and its interpretation by Slavoj Zizek, which emphases the traumatic encounter with the Real as a "hard core" of our reality. According to this paradigm, a new chain of signifiers is structured around the traumatic breach in the Symbolic, initiating a process of fantasy …
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The Ill Which Remains Within: Exploring the Limits of Hope as a Philosophical Basis for Education
… as interpreted by the philosopher Slavoj Zizek to critically examine how hope, rather than freeing us from the present, traps us in a version of the future. Working with Freirean theories of subjectivity in education, I argue that hope holds us captive to our potential future enjoyment, …
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<i>Sucker Punch</i> and the Political Problem of Fantasy to Female Representation
… and, using the work of Laura Mulvey, Slavoj Zizek, Jeffrey Brown, Angela McRobbie and Rosalind Gill, among others, I explore the way the film gives important insight into the limits of successfully emptying fantasy of pleasure. I divide the film's engagement with pleasure into two main areas: …
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Into the heartland of the ordinary
… contemporaries, the cultural critic Slavoj Zizek and the ethnomethodologist Harvey Sacks are treated as resources for alternative formulations of the collective interest in the relations between the ordinary and the extraordinary. Zizek's injunction to "look awry" at the habitual and the …
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Rewriting the Future: The Construction of Masculine Subjectivity Within Articulations of Russia's Post-Soviet National Idea
… ideas of Michel Foucault, Jacques Lacan, Slavoj Zizek, and others, I analyze the ways in which male corporeality is articulated as an embodiment of the nation, and point to the consequences of articulations that serve to "naturalize" or "normalize" certain masculinities over others. Many of the …
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A Structuralist Controversy: Althusser and Lacan on Ideology
<p>Slavoj Zizek argues that, if Althusser was an adamant structuralist who reduced subject to a mere function of ideology, Lacan was a genuine critic of such a position, who showed how the subject can separate itself from the symbolic structure of ideology. Zizek's portrayal of the debate, however, …
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The politics of poetry in Bosnia and Herzegovina: re-assessing tradition since the late 1980s
… primarily on works by Terry Eagleton, Slavoj Zizek, Raymond Williams, and Alan Sinfield, I intervene in the cultural memory of Bosnia and Herzegovina and establish a tradition of dissidence, which I locate in the marginalised alternative practices of feminists, gays and lesbians, and some …
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Covenant Nation: The Politics of Grace in Early American Literature
… of freedom and equality. Following Slavoj Zizek's theoretical approach to theology, I trace the covenant concept in early American literature from the theological expressions and disputes in Puritan Massachusetts through Jonathan Edwards's <em>Freedom of Will</em> and the essays of Ralph …
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Repetition Repeated: Reconstructing a Lacanian Subjectivity Through Kierkegaardian Repetition
… and political revolutions. But as Slavoj Zizek has pointed out, almost from the moment Descartes posited the mind-body problem, there was an anxiety about what it meant to be “one who thinks.”1 This anxiety presents itself as a continuous questioning of the ontology of the subject, and …
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The National Committee for Liberation ("ARM"), 1960-1964 : sabotage and the question of the ideological subject
… Ernesto Laclau, Chantal Mouffe and Slavoj Zizek. Pechcux's elaboration of the Althusserian concept of interpellation formed the basis of a discourse analysis of NCL texts. In the interviews, some use was also made of techniques of ethnographic interviewing developed by qualitative …
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The social imaginary, Jacques Lacan, and the African Christian diaspora in Europe
… between thought and affect. Following Slavoj Zizek, we can develop a Lacanian parallel to the social imaginary around the notion of the master-signifier that 'quilts' the production of meaning and anchors our social reality. Crucially, it does so by producing 'objects' that address the …
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Violence and the other in the novels of Carmel Bird
This thesis argues that throughout her fictional work, Carmel Bird interrogates multiple forms of violence against the gendered and racialised other. Using Judith Butler’s theories of gender performativity and the discursive construction of race, the thesis shows how these constructions not only …
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The Cyborg Subject: Parallax Realities, Functions of Consciousness and the Void of Subjectivity
This thesis contributes to the fields of digital technology, consciousness studies and cultural theory by reassessing the relation of the contemporary subject to physical and digital worlds. By moving beyond the materiality of these worlds, this investigation will position the subject as a cyborg: …
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« Tu m'arracheras de moi » : la limite de la représentation dans la poésie de René Lapierre (1990-2008)
Les recueils de poésie publiés par René Lapierre de 1990 à 2008 participent d’un questionnement de la forme poétique, laquelle, en plus d’interroger la posture énonciative mise en scène par le texte, propose comme moteur dominant la juxtaposition et la multiplication des instances narratives et se …
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Toward a New Conception of Human Subjectivity for the Age of Globalization: Revisiting the Hegelian Vision of “Spiritual Subjectivity”
<p>My major argument in this dissertation is that Hegelian spiritual subjectivity can and should serve as a philosophical basis for envisioning a new conception of human subjectivity for the age of globalization. Why, then, does globalization demand a new conception of human subjectivity at all? …
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