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Book: Less Than Nothing: Hegel and the Shadow of Dialectical Materialism
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  1. Slavoj Žižek _ Less Than Nothing: Hegel and

    Symptoms are never just secondary failures or distortions of the basically sound System-they are indicators that there is something "rotten" {antagonistic, inconsistent} in the very heart of the System.
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  2. Slavoj Žižek _ Less Than Nothing: Hegel and

    There is a problem to be clarified here: no matter how intrusively one touches a dog or a cat, the intrusion will never be interpreted by it as an "enigmatic signifier"; which means that something, some radical change, must have already happened in a living being for it to experience something as an intrusion. It seems obvious that a violation is always a violation with regard to some presupposed norm. Should one then say that, in order for something to be experienced by the body as intrusion, a kind of primordial Ego already has to be constituted, implying a line of division between the Inside and the Outside?
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  3. Slavoj Žižek _ Less Than Nothing: Hegel and

    The root of these shifts in the meaning of big Other is that, in the subject's relation to it, we are effectively dealing with a closed loop best rendered by Escher's famous image of two hands drawing each other. The big Other is a virtual order which exists only through subjects "believing" in it; if, however, a subject were to suspend its belief in the big Other, the subject itself, its "reality," would disappear. The paradox is that symbolic fiction is constitutive of reality: if we take away the fiction, we lose reality itself. This loop is what Hegel called "positing the presuppositions." This big Other should not be reduced to an anonymous symbolic field-there are many interesting cases where an individual stands for the big Other. One should think not primarily of leader-figures who directly embody their communities {king, president, master}, but rather of the more mysterious protectors of appearances-such as otherwise corrupted parents who desperately try to keep their child ignorant of their depraved lives, or, if it is a leader, then one for whom Potemkin villages are built.
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  4. Slavoj Žižek _ Less Than Nothing: Hegel and

    if Substance is Life, is the Subject not Death? Insofar as, for Hegel, the basic feature of pre-subjective Life is the "spurious infinity" of the eternal reproduction of the life substance through the incessant movement of the generation and corruption of its elements-that is, the "spurious infinity" of a repetition without progress-the ultimate irony we encounter here is that Freud, who called this excess of death over life the "death drive," conceived it precisely as repetition, as a compulsion to repeat."
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  5. Slavoj Žižek _ Less Than Nothing: Hegel and

    Strange Christianity, whose most pressing anxiety seems to be that God's grace might prove to be all too free on this side, that hell, instead of being populated with so many people, might some day prove to be empty!
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  6. Slavoj Žižek _ Less Than Nothing: Hegel and

    When Zeno the Cynic was confronted with Eleatic proofs of the non-existence of movement, he simply raised and moved his middle finger, or so the story goes …
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  7. Slavoj Žižek _ Less Than Nothing: Hegel and

    the act is by definition partial, it involves guilt, but the judging consciousness does not admit that its judging is also an act, it refuses to include itself in what it judges. It ignores the fact that the true evil lies in the neutral gaze which sees evil everywhere around itself, so that it is no less tainted than the acting consciousness.
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  8. Slavoj Žižek _ Less Than Nothing: Hegel and

    one cannot look "objectively" at oneself and locate oneself in reality; and the task is to think this impossibility itself as an ontological fact, not only as an epistemological limitation. In other words, the task is to think this impossibility not as a limit, but as a positive fact-and this, perhaps, is what at his most radical Hegel does.
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  9. Slavoj Žižek _ Less Than Nothing: Hegel and

    an entity is free when it can deploy its immanent potential without being impeded by any external obstacle.
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  10. Slavoj Žižek _ Less Than Nothing: Hegel and

    a truly radical change is self-relating: it changes the very coordinates by means of which we measure change. In other words, a true change sets its own standards: it can only be measured by criteria that result from it.
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  11. Slavoj Žižek _ Less Than Nothing: Hegel and

    Beyond the fiction of reality, there is the reality of the fiction."
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