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Let's say you're trying to develop a scale which would rank one level of races versus another.
How much harder is it to go from claiming races to allowance? Twice as hard? Is there a way to measure this somehow?
I'm imagining a list, something like this
Grade 1: 500
Grade 2: 450
Grade 3: 400
Stakes: 300
Allowance 250
Claiming 200
Mdn Claim 100
So, in the above table, it's twice as hard to win a claiming race as it is a maiden claiming (200 vs 100). Similarly, it's twice as hard to win a grade 3 as a claiming (400 vs 200).
Maybe I'm saying that, for a horse to go straight from claiming to grade 3, he better be twice as good as the average claimer?
Is this even useful to think about?
Well, this is the dead period of the forum, so maybe this is a useful post just to keep the cobwebs away.

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Knapp Hall Review Page 9 WCTF DJ of the Week PageT Personals Pages 10 & 11 Volume 60, Number 8 SUNY College of Technology At Farmlngdale Week Ending November 17, 1989 Flamblep state Passes Stricter Drinking Laws By Ramon Rodriguez special To The Rambler The New York State Legislature passed a bill on December 1, 1985, prohibiting persons under the age of 21 from purchasing alcoholic beverages. The bill, in 1985, amended the Alcohol Beverage Control Law stating that "no person shall sell, deliver or give away or cause or permit or procur to be sold, delivered or given away any alcoholic beverages to any person^ actually or apparently, under the age of nineteen years." The Alcohol Beverage Control Law has been amended again in 1989, and affects anyone under the of 21. Recent amendments to the Alco-hol Beverage Control Law have a significant impact on campus and your life style. The new amendments to the Alcohol Bever-age Control Law provide: Effggtive January l, 1990. persons under the age of 21 are prohibited from possessing any alcoholic beverage with intent to consume the beverage. Exceptions are provided for consump-tion in an instructional setting and in cases where the alcoholic beverage is provided by a parent or a guardian. Violators are subject to a fme of up to $50 K G V o f T r n H NM FARr/iINGDAi-E. ^^ LIBRARY/SERIALS DEPT. per offense, but are not subject to arrest. Alco-holic beverages involved in alleged violations of this law may be seized by authorized law en-forcement officials, including campus public safety officers. Disposal and destruction of the seized alcoholic beverages are also authorized but cannot be carried out until three days after the initial appearance date, unless otherwise ordered by a court. Effective November 1. 1989. persons under the age of 21 who present falsified or fraudulendy altered proofs of age for the purpose Brighton Beach Memoirs Herman J. Asides Rambler Staff Writer Does that tide sound familiar? If so, you are a cultured, well read, and intelligent person who knows a Neil Simon play when you hear one. If not, then you still have a chance. Brighton Beach Memoirs by Neil Simon will be presented by The Backstage Theatre Company on Thursday, Friday and Saturday, this week at Eight o'clock in the evening. The choice of Neil Simon represents a departure in stile and policy for "Backstage" in more then a few ways. For one, the Autumn production is usually a night of one-act plays. Brighton Beach, a drama in two acts, will be performed on three nights. "We wanted to do something different and challenging. It came down to a choice between Sheakespeare and Simon. Next year we may do Sheakspeare." says Rose Sciara, President of Backstage and pro-ducer of Brighton Beach. Another major change is the quality of the sets. Set Designer/Builder Scott Schreck has worked miracles and constructed a realistic and functional two story house. "I've been building sets since High School and this is by far the best I've ever done." says Scott who worked through the weekend to put it together and will be work-ing the lights during the show as well. of purchasing or attempting to purchase alco-holic beverage are guilty of a fine of up to $ 100.00 and a community service requirement of up to thirty (30) hours. Previously, violations of this section were punishable only by the imposi-tion of a one-year probationary period and a fine. Effggive (X\Q\XT 19,19g9, aperson under the age of 21 who presents an altered New York State driver's license for the purpose of illegally Please See Alcohol On Page 9 The costumes and props are all appropri-ate for 1937 including an authentic working 1935 RCA radio supplied by the director. Biologist/ Author D.T. Arcieri. Professor Arcieri, a T.A. on campus, is the faculty advisor for the Backstage Theatre Company and a produced play write. " It's my favorite play. When I was approached with thier decision to do Simon, I jumped at the chance to direct." "What we really want to do is fill up the theatre on those three nights. This paper should come out only a day before the play so I hope alot of people read this." says Griffin Hey wood, one of the cast members.
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Big Sur International Marathon 28 April 2013 The 28th Annual Big Sur International Marathon had been sold out in 26 hours, which shows the popularity of this challenging, yet scenic, marathon. I flew into San Francisco on Friday, 26 April, took the Monterey Airbus, and checked into Portola Hotel and Spa in Monterey. A very nice hotel, located adjacent to the Marina and Fishermans Wharf. The packet pick-up/health and fitness expo was in Monterey Conference Center. Each runner received a nice long-sleeved technical shirt. There were a large number of vendors. On Sunday, at 4:15 AM, buses began transporting the runners to the start line. The temperature ranged from upper 50s to low 70s. It was overcast at times. We had to deal with some head winds. There were ample water/sports drink stations, sports gels and fruits in a few locations, strawberries at mile 23, and several bands and individual musicians throughout the course. The point-to-point course was on Highway 1, which was closed to traffic, from Pfeiffer State Park in Big Sur (elevation 300 feet) to Rio Road in Carmel (elevation 25 feet). As expected, the marathon route was hilly. The hardest section was from mile 10 (40 feet) to the Hurricane Point at mile 12 (560 feet). The 2nd half of the marathon included several rolling hills. The recovery food items and drinks at the finish area were sufficient. We were shuttled back to our hotels in Monterey. There were 3121 (1576 males, 1545 females) finishers. The winning times were 2:27:46 (overall male), 2:50:02 (overall female), 2:34:52 (masters males), and 3:09:01 (masters female). This was my 98th marathon & I truly enjoyed it.
If you are to run one race in your lifetime, make it be Big Sur. I promise you, it will not disappoint. It is breathtaking- both literally and figuratively. It ain't easy. But it is the race of a lifetime. Do it. You can find my full 2013 Big Sur Marathon Race Recap on my blog here. Happy Running People! And get in those hill repeats. :-) http://marathonandsprint.wordpress.com/2013/05/10/2013-big-sur-international-marathon-the-recap/
This is a challenge course. If you try to set your personal best, this course may not be the one. However, if you try to enjoy the fresh breeze and scenic view along the way of your entire marathon run, this is the one. Think about it, the beautiful highway one is for only runners during that few hours while you are part of the excitement. If you are local, this is a good yearly event. If you are an out towner, this can be a perfect event to fit in a vacation plan. This is a well organized event. The organizers have done their best to let everyone enjoy the event. The population are not large in the area. Don't expect to have a large crowd. The entertainment along the road are good quality and cheerful.
If I died and went to marathoners heaven it could be no better than Big Sur 2013, perfect weather, minimal winds (for this course so I'm told), breathtaking scenery. This was my first time on the Pacific Coast Highway and I cannot imagine a better way to experience all this beauty. If you want to focus on negatives one could whine about the hills (the one at mi 25 kicked my butt), the multiple races at the same time (spend lots of time passing people wogging the 21 miler), the stretches of slanted road surface (just give it up ... there is no flat spot). I'm going with the idea that the hills, the wind, and the mix a runners just adds to a fantastic experience and slows you down just a bit more so that you can more thoroughly soak in the heavenly experience that is Big Sur.
The Big Sur marathon is a treasure among marathons. The scenery is breath-takingly beautiful from start to finish, with fun music support all along the course. You will hardly notice the hills because the views provide such a wonderful distractions. A must run!
My worst time ever...and I'm glad I did it. Great scenery, a course to test you with the two mile uphill between 10-12 miles, off camber roads that trashed everything south of my waist, and chilly headwinds. I never hurt so bad in my life. It's like being in a four hour plane crash. I'm glad I did it. Only downside...idiot runners who would stop suddenly to take photos...of water, waves, hills, cows, etc. I had to duck underneath outstretch arms several times for marathoners who wanted action shots on their iPhones. Try doing that on Saturday next time. Overall, a great experience. Well done Big Sur.
The race itself was really difficult. The uphills were bad, but the wind was worse. Still, I managed to PR.
There was a woman playing a harp with her daughter around mile 22. My name was on my Bib and as I was struggling along they called out my name saying 'Way to go John'-for me this was priceless. The strawberries were delicious. I like the 'Finisher poster' in the background where pictures can be taken by family/friends WITHOUT being charged.
Call me crazy but I was a bit disappointed with Big Sur '12. I knew, and was ready for, the big hills. I appreciated the scenery, maybe not the fog so much. But, the headwinds were unexpected, especially after the starting line announcer bragged, 'There are NO winds coming your way.' (The evening news reported gusts of 40 mph.) And, yes, after coming off LA '12 and NYC '11, I was shocked by the lack of crowd support. Silly me!
Wow what an awesome course. It is truely as beautiful as the pictures you see and every bit as hard as people tell you. Everything was very well organized from start to finish. Expo was decent for a small marathon. Yes, you do have to be on a bus by 4am to get to the start, but who sleeps good the night before a marathon anyways. Once to the start, the holding area you have to wait in can get very crowded with people just sitting everywhere. Even so, never took me more than 5-10min to go to the bathroom. Plenty of coffee small snacks to keep you happy for 90 minutes. They had 3 corrals. 2-3:45 / 3:45 - 5 / 5+ (I think). The start for me (Under 3:45 corral) was the cleanest start I have ever had. Course was awesome even though I had fog for 6-7 miles or so. Wind on the other hand...a 20mph headwind sucks no matter what which way you cut it! volunteers were great. Aide stations well manned. Nice medal, great shirt. The course is hillier on the second half than the profile suggest. Non stop up and down. My quads never hurt so bad in my life. If you train hard, this course is nothing to get bent out of shape about. Yes it is hard, but so are all marathons! I even had a 2 min PR (4th marathon)! I didn't stick around too long post race. Got a massage, grabbed my food bag, got a beer and headed back to the B&B. The hills will take a severe beating on your quads and the slope (especially in the Carmel Highlands) adds one more layer of pain. My only gripe, the walkers (there are like 5 races going on) always took the left side of the road which had the least amount of slope. The faster runners were forced right into the center of the road with the highest slope (and many times, the worst tangent). Still lots of room to get around them. Overall, top notch race.
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GREENFIELD, Calif - Police in Greenfield have uncovered what they are calling the most sophisticated marijuana grow operation they've ever seen.
Someone called in an anonymous tip to the police about a house on 222 Bella Street. Police were able to confirm with the property management company that whoever had rented the house had changed all the locks and lighting equipment could be seen from a window.
Police were able to get a search warrant for the home after a drug dog alerted to marijuana. Once inside the home, is was clear that is was being used as an indoor marijuana grow, said police.
There was a network of air filtration systems setup around the home to prevent plant odor from leaving the house, said police. The suspects also tapped into the powergrid to steal power undetected.
This grow operation is one of the most sophisticated that Greenfield police have uncovered. The suspects even put in false interior walls to help hide the grow activity. The plants were set up on timers to help them grow, without anyone having to be at the house, said police.
At this time police do not know if this grow operation is gang related.
Police confiscated about 200 marijuana plants, which will be destroyed. All of the electrical equipment will be seized and sold to benefit the city.
News Release From Police
On Thursday, August 22, 2013, at approximately 9:30 a.m., Officers from the Greenfield Police Department received a tip that marijuana was possibly being grown at a residence located at 223 Bella Street in the City of Greenfield. Several officers along with a Greenfield Canine Officer and his drug certified canine responded to the vacant home and located what appeared to be a significant amount of marijuana, generators, timer boards, fans, electronic ballasts and air filtration systems. Officers froze the residence and secured a search warrant for the premises.
Once the search warrant was obtained and officers began to conduct the search, they learned that four upstairs bedrooms had been converted into marijuana grow rooms and that the kitchen and family room of the residence had also been completely gutted and converted into a large marijuana grow room. In total, officers located and confiscated the following items:
A specialist from PGE who handles eradication cases responded from San Jose to assist with the electrical dismantling of the sophisticated system. He determined that the suspects in this case had actually accessed the electrical grid directly and bypassed the home itself. A false wall was also constructed within the residence which contained a number of electrical timers for the lighting and ventilation systems.
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Broan Solar Attic Fan Review
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Surface Mount, Solar Powered Attic Ventilator
Upgrade your home and save up to $180 per year through the use of the Broan Solar Powered Attic Ventilator. As a green product requirng only energy from the sun and no additional electricity, you can put the money you might have spent on powering an electrical ventilator back into your pocket.
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- Housing frame features positive stops to "seat" the dome for fast, easy installation
- Direct-current, variable voltage motor is dynamically balanced for superior performance and silent operation for years of worry-free operation
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- Optional thermostat is easy to install and disables the motor when the temperature dips below 50-degrees, to extend motor life; recommended for climates where cold weather condensation isn't a concern
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KING CITY, Calif. -- King City Police tell Central Coast News they have obtained an arrest warrant for an armed robbery suspect. Police believe he could also be a possible suspect in Tuesday's homicide.
Anthony Esquivel was stabbed to death inside his King City home Tuesday.
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Sylvester Stallone gave his sister millions in blackmail money back in the 1980s, after she threatened to ruin his career over false allegations.
Then he made "Rocky 5," and it really didn't matter anymore.
Stallone's half-sibling, Toni-Ann Filiti, died of lung cancer last year at the age of 48. It has now come out that her famous brother handed her a multimillion dollar sum in the 1980s, and agreed to pay her a monthly income and set up a trust to cover her medical expenses.
A representative for Stallone confirmed the payout and said the money was paid after Filiti blackmailed the star with a series of false allegations of physical abuse.
The spokesman told the New York Post gossip column
Stallone's mother, Jackie, has also opened up about the alleged blackmail plot, claiming Filiti was addicted to prescription drugs and the actor was trying to help her.
She said, "This was nothing more than a shakedown. Toni-Ann was on 65 OxyContin pills a day, and she threatened Sylvester. A drug addict will do anything. When Sylvester became famous ... He was trying to help her. He caved in ... At the time (in 1987) he was very hot, and his lawyers said, 'Give her something just to shut her up.'"
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Žižek, Slavoj
Slavoj Žižek 1949-
(Also transliterated as Slavoj Zizek) Slovenian critic, essayist, and editor.
The following entry presents an overview of Žižek's career through 2003.
Žižek has distinguished himself as one of the world's leading cultural theorists. He has earned international notoriety for his numerous volumes of cultural analysis that apply psychoanalytic theory and modern philosophy to American popular culture from a post-Marxist Leftist perspective. Žižek's work has been particularly noted for its explications of the psychoanalytic theories of Jacques Lacan and their significance to cultural and political theory. Žižek's writing style, though challenging and rife with difficult theoretical concepts, has been characterized as both quirky and entertaining, informed by the author's rigorous theoretical analysis and a commitment to political relevance. His sense of absurdity in formulating theoretical approaches to cultural criticism is evidenced in the titles of some of his best known works, such as Enjoy Your Symptom!: Jacques Lacan in Hollywood and Out (1992), Everything You Always Wanted to Know about Lacan (But Were Afraid to Ask Hitchcock) (1992), and The Ticklish Subject: The Absent Centre of Political Ontology (1999). However, despite his often amusing digressions into popular culture, Žižek has displayed a firm concern with the social and political realities of life at the turn of the millennium in such works as NATO as the Left Hand of God (2000), Did Somebody Say Totalitarianism?: Five Interventions in the Mis(use) of a Notion (2001), and Welcome to the Desert of the Real: Five Essays on September 11 and Related Dates (2002).
Biographical Information
Žižek was born on March 21, 1949, in Ljubljana, the capital of communist Yugoslavia. He received a B.A. in philosophy and sociology from the University of Ljubljana in 1971 and an M.A. degree in 1975. Unable to obtain a teaching post due to political reasons, Žižek worked as a translator of German philosophy. In 1977 he took a position at the Central Committee of the League of Slovene Communists, writing political propaganda speeches. During this period, he also continued to write philosophy papers and attend academic conferences. In 1979 Žižek acquired a position as a researcher at the Institute for Sociology at the University of Ljubljana. Žižek traveled to Paris in 1981, where he studied psychoanalysis at the Universite de Paris, and earned a Ph.D. in 1985. With the dissolution of the Soviet Union, the Republic of Slovenia emerged from regions of the former Yugoslavia as a democratic nation with Ljubljana as its capital. In 1990 Žižek ran as a pro-reform candidate for the newly formed four-member collective presidency of Slovenia but was not elected. While maintaining his post at the Institute for Sociology at the University of Ljubljana, which provides him with freedom to write and publish without additional responsibilities, Žižek spends a portion of each year as a guest professor at various colleges and universities throughout the United States. He has taught at several universities around the world, including the State University of New York at Buffalo, the University of Minnesota, Tulane, Columbia University, Princeton University, the New School for Social Research, and the University of Michigan.
Major Works
Žižek's writings all concern some aspect of the interface between psychoanalytic theory and political philosophy, as applied to various aspects of culture and politics in the late twentieth century and at the turn of the millennium. His interest in popular culture extends to the exploration of the relationship between psychoanalytic theories of pleasure and Marxist theories of ideology. Lacanian psychoanalytic theory remains the foundation of all Žižek's concepts, and many of his publications attempt to both explain and grapple with the significance of Lacanian theory to post-Marxist cultural theory. The Sublime Object of Ideology (1989) provides an introduction to Lacanian theory and includes discussion of concepts from Freudian psychoanalytic theory, the modern philosophy of Jürgen Habermas, the political philosophy of Karl Marx, and the poststructuralist theories of Jacques Derrida. Looking Awry: An Introduction to Jacques Lacan through Popular Culture (1991) presents the reader with the basic theoretical concepts of Lacan via discussion of such popular culture texts as Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes stories and the novels of Stephen King. Enjoy Your Symptom! places the theories of Lacan, Freud, Marx, Socrates, Descartes, Kant, Hegel, and Kierkegaard within a dialogue of the films of such auteur directors such as Charlie Chaplin, Alfred Hitchcock, Roberto Rossellini, and David Lynch. Žižek served as the editor of Everything You Always Wanted to Know about Lacan (But Were Afraid to Ask Hitchcock), a collection of essays drawn primarily from the academic film journal Cahiers du Cinema. The various authors included in this volume discuss Lacanian theory as applied to a number of Hitchcock films, including Suspicion, Rear Window, and The Wrong Man, among others. The Plague of Fantasies (1997) provides theoretical discussion of the relationship between fantasy and ideology, as manifested in popular culture in the age of cyber-technology. The work evaluates the concept of fetishism, in both Freudian and Marxian terms, to analyze such cultural phenomena as cybersex and toilet design. The Ticklish Subject probes issues of subjectivity in terms of three different theoretical frameworks—German Idealism, post-Althusserian political philosophy, and the poststructuralist gender theory put forth by Judith Butler. Several of Žižek's later works address more direct questions of political action in the context of contemporary culture and ideology within a postcolonial, post-industrial global economy. Did Somebody Say Totalitarianism? examines the cultural and ideological use of the concept of totalitarianism along five different lines of development. Žižek asserts that the very term "totalitarianism" has been used as a "stopgap" of liberal-democratic thinking that ultimately limits and contains the possibility of subversive political ideologies by labeling them as "totalitarian." Welcome to the Desert of the Real provides commentary on the cultural and ideological implications of the terrorist attacks on the United States that took place on September 11, 2001, while Iraq: The Borrowed Kettle (2004) focuses on the continuing American war on terror and occupation of Iraq.
Critical Reception
Žižek has been widely acknowledged as a leading scholar of leftist cultural criticism and one of the greatest modern proponents of Lacanian theory. Many critics have regarded him as a brilliant academic mind on the cutting edge of cultural theory. Lois McNay has asserted that Žižek is "one of the most innovative and exciting contemporary thinkers of the Left." Clayton Crockett has likewise described him as "one of the most creative and original thinkers on the contemporary scene." Many reviewers have acknowledged Žižek's ability to formulate broad-ranging but incisive theoretical analyses of everyday life in the contemporary world. However, some feminist cultural theorists have taken issue with Žižek's works of criticism. For example, Žižek has maintained a friendly ongoing public dialogue with gender-theorist Judith Butler, with each party respectfully acknowledging but ardently refuting the others' premises. Butler has argued that Žižek's concept of the individual subject, based as it is on psychoanalytic theory, is ahistorical, while Žižek argues that Butler's metanarrative of the gendered subject is itself ahistorical. Some reviewers have also questioned the value of Žižek's prolific output—publishing as many as two or three books a year. Certain critics, such as Alex Callinicos, have countered this assertion. Callinicos has noted: "[p]erhaps it is a mistake to think of these as separate books rather than chapters in a single vast and continuing philosophical roman fleuve in which Žižek overwhelms his readers with jokes, arguments, film criticism and political polemic."
Principal Works
The Sublime Object of Ideology (criticism) 1989
For They Know Not What They Do: Enjoyment as a Political Factor (criticism) 1991
Looking Awry: An Introduction to Jacques Lacan through Popular Culture (criticism) 1991
Enjoy Your Symptom!: Jacques Lacan in Hollywood and Out (criticism) 1992
Everything You Always Wanted to Know about Lacan (But Were Afraid to Ask Hitchcock) [editor] (essays and criticism) 1992
Tarrying with the Negative: Kant, Hegel, and the Critique of Ideology (criticism) 1993
Mapping Ideology [editor] (essays and criticism) 1994
The Metastases of Enjoyment: Six Essays on Woman and Causality (essays and criticism) 1994
Gaze and Voice as Love Objects [editor; with Renata Salecl] (essays and criticism) 1996
The Indivisible Remainder: An Essay on Schelling and Related Matters (essays and criticism) 1996
*The Abyss of Freedom/Ages of the World [with F. W. J. von Schelling] (essays and criticism) 1997
The Plague of Fantasies (criticism) 1997
Cogito and the Unconscious [editor] (essays and criticism) 1998
The Ticklish Subject: The Absent Centre of Political Ontology (essays and criticism) 1999
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SOURCE: Kurzweil, Edith. Review of Looking Awry: An Introduction to Jacques Lacan through Popular Culture, by Slavoj Žižek. American Journal of Sociology 97, no. 6 (May 1992): 1786-88.
[In the following review, Kurzweil asserts that Looking Awry is a work of postmodern theory and faults Žižek for assuming that his readers are already familiar with the theories and concepts of Jacques Lacan.]
Slavoj Zizek is gifted and versatile: he was a researcher at the Institute of Sociology in Ljubjana, and had run as a proreform candidate for the presidency of the republic of Slovenia, before writing Looking Awry—a book he "conceived as a kind of introduction to Lacanian 'dogmatics,' … as an excuse for indulging in the idiotic enjoyment of popular culture" (pp. vii-viii). He took time off from his political commitments in order to indulge in "post-deconstructionism"—his strictly Lacanian reading of the "Real" (in relation to the "Symbolic" and the "Imaginary").
Zizek assumes that his readers are conversant with all of Lacan's works, that they are as taken up with Lacanian psychoanalysis and its roots in linguistic theory as he is himself. This means, also, that the child is primarily conceptualized as both by having been born into its language and by the ambivalence deriving from the dual (and coexisting and inseparable) nature of signs and...
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SOURCE: Žižek, Slavoj, and Peter Canning. "The Sublime Theorist of Slovenia." Artforum International 31, no. 7 (March 1993): 84-9.
[In the following interview, Žižek discusses his political philosophy in relation to the political situation in the former Yugoslavia.]
Jacques Lacan is responsible for saying, "there is no sexual relation." This should not make lovers too upset, for in fact, Love is what we have to make up for the Relation that is missing. Eros would be the potential of supreme Good, for harmony uniting men and women, women and women, men and men. But why did Sigmund Freud have to ruin everything by saying, It is always possible to bond together in love, as long as someone is left out to hate? Lacan and Freud are pessimists, right? For Love is all-inclusive—at least it can't depend on exclusion and hatred for its condition! Or else, with a yawn and a wink, we resign ourselves to taking advantage of whatever trust remains in human nature.
When Slavoj Žižek says, "There is no social relation," we react as cynics and Kantian fetishists: I know very well there is no social Harmony prepared in heaven, but that is why we must work it here on earth. But Žižek unveils a new attitude. Social identity is constituted, not on the basis of ideal communication or understanding, but on the condition of persecutory and reactive formations that we all claim the others...
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SOURCE: Thomas, Paul. Review of Everything You Always Wanted to Know about Lacan (But Were Afraid to Ask Hitchcock), edited by Slavoj Žižek. Film Quarterly 47, no. 1 (fall 1993): 46-7.
[In the following review, Thomas argues that the quality of the essays in Everything You Always Wanted to Know about Lacan (But Were Afraid to Ask Hitchcock) varies greatly and that the collection as a whole should have been edited more carefully.]
In Slavoj Žižek's words [in Everything You Always Wanted to Know about Lacan (But Were Afraid to Ask Hitchcock)], "Hitchcock as the theoretical phenomenon we have witnessed in recent decades—the endless flow of books, articles, university courses, conference panels—is a 'post-modern' phenomenon par excellence … for true Hitchcock aficionados everything has meaning in his films, the seemingly simplest plot conceals unexpected philosophical delicacies." He adds that "this book partakes unrestrainedly in such madness." Indeed it does, to the point of academicizing Hitchcock with a kind of gleeful vengeance. To begin with, much of the Lacanian panoply is out in force—the Imaginary; the Symbolic; the Real; the objet petit a; the "stain"; das Ding; Vorstellung-Repräsentanz; sinthoms; the Unheimlich; the Will-to-Enjoy; and—of course—the Gaze. Nor is this all. The essays that comprise...
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SOURCE: Aoki, Doug. "Readings Awry." Canadian Literature, no. 147 (winter 1995): 136-37.
[In the following review, Aoki offers a critical comparison of Looking Awry: An Introduction to Jacques Lacan through Popular Culture and Christopher Johnson's System and Writing in the Philosophy of Jacques Derrida, noting that Looking Awry presents "the freshest and most radical reading of Lacan in decades."]
A glance over these titles [Christopher Johnson's System and Writing in the Philosophy of Jacques Derrida and Slavoj Žižek's Looking Awry: An Introduction to Jacques Lacan through Popular Culture] would likely light upon the two Jacques, and thereby suppose that Christopher Johnson and Slavoj Zizek are working towards very similar ends—the explication of the thought of one or the other of arguably the two most significant poststructuralist theorists. However, even a little reading proves that each writer is instead more faithful to the differences between their titles. Johnson commits himself to system, and proceeds accordingly to construct a sober argument for a general Derridean theory of writing (écriture), while Zizek only pledges to look at Lacan the "wrong" way. Johnson's scrupulously academic text enlists the usual supporting cast of Hegel, Heidegger, and Freud, while Zizek, casually dismissive of the "academic reception" of Lacan,...
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SOURCE: Herbold, Sarah. "Well-Placed Reflections: (Post)modern Woman as Symptom of (Post)modern Man." Signs 21, no. 1 (autumn 1995): 83-115.
[In the following essay, Herbold examines Žižek's theory of "woman-as-the-postmodern" from the perspective of feminist cultural theory. Herbold compares the representations of gender and subjectivity in Žižek's essay "Rossellini: Woman as Symptom of Man" with Jean-Jacques Rousseau's Confessions.]
Zanetto, lascia le donne, e studia la matematica. (Johnny, leave women alone and go study mathematics.)
(Zulietta [in Rousseau (1782) 1959, 322])
Whatever they may signify (and this is precisely the question: whether, how, and to whom they signify anything), the terms woman and the feminine figure prominently in contemporary Anglo-American and French poststructuralist theories of literature and culture.1 This concern with woman and the feminine is implicitly linked to ideas of change and liberation: to a desire to be freed from traditional gender roles and representations in the case of feminist thinkers, and from traditional forms of thought, experience, and expression in the case of poststructuralist and psychoanalytic theorists. For better and/or for worse, woman and the feminine are being associated with the current sense of cultural crisis and innovation...
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SOURCE: Gigante, Denise. "Toward a Notion of Critical Self-Creation: Slavoj Žižek and the 'Vortex of Madness.'" New Literary History 29, no. 1 (winter 1998): 153-68.
[In the following essay, Gigante examines Žižek's theories of identity and subjectivity, contrasting them with the critical theories of F. W. J. von Schelling.]
To examine the process of critical self-creation illustrated by Slavoj Žižek, I am content to begin where he begins: with the problem of Beginning itself. As he observes in The Indivisible Remainder—a reading of F. W. J. von Schelling's unfinished masterpiece on the Creation, The Ages of the World [Die Weltalter]—it is the crucial problem of German Idealism.1 I, however, will complicate this question of beginnings even further by asking, how is it that one gives birth to oneself as a critical subject? How does one self-create? In the case of Zizek, the critical subject never quite does emerge, but remains trapped in an endless cycle of birth contractions (and expansions) which expose the Real of the struggle involved in any act of self-assertion. Like others, such as his mentor Jacques Lacan, he assumes a theoretical stance which sets out to transgress boundaries between philosophy, psychology, literature, politics, film, and popular culture.2 But where Žižek is unique, and where he makes his radical break with other...
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SOURCE: Miklitsch, Robert. "'Going through the Fantasy': Screening Slavoj Žižek." South Atlantic Quarterly 97, no. 2 (spring 1998): 475-507.
[In the following essay, Miklitsch discusses Žižek's scholarship in the cultural and political context of Slovenian culture after the dissolution of the Soviet Union.]
Far from being the Other of Europe, former Yugoslavia was rather Europe itself in its Otherness, the screen onto which Europe projected its own repressed reverse.
—Slavoj Žižek, "Caught in Another's Dream in Bosnia"
The Giant of Ljubljana? The Casanova of Slovenia? The Balkan Lacan? Saint Slavoj?
Who, exactly, is Slavoj Žižek, and where does he hail from?
It is all, one might say, in the name. An anecdote: when I first came across this particular proper name—significantly, while reading Terry Eagleton's introduction to Ideology—I was struck less by Žižek's remarks on ideology, which offered a slight but crucial revision of Peter Sloterdijk's formula for "enlightened false consciousness" ("they know that, in their activity, they are following an illusion, but still, they are doing it"1), than by the sheer strangeness of the name: all those little vs and zs!
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SOURCE: Boynton, Robert S. "Enjoy Your Žižek." Lingua Franca 8, no. 7 (October 1998): 41-50.
[In the following essay, Boynton provides an overview of Žižek's life and career along with interview material gathered during the course of Žižek's lecture series at the British Film Institute.]
Amid the Bustle of Tony Blair's Britain, the tradition of the afternoon tea is one of the last remaining traces of the country's genteel past. There are few places that conjure up that past better than the oak-paneled King's Bar Lounge at the Hotel Russell, a fading Victorian pile that sits on the edge of Bloomsbury, only a few short blocks from the British Museum. On a drizzly summer afternoon, I sink into one of the Lounge's overstuffed leather chairs, feeling as if I were being transported back to an earlier, more leisurely era—far from "cool Britannia" and debates over the future of the euro. The spell is abruptly broken, however, by the sudden, agitated entrance of the Slovenian philosopher Slavoj Zizek, who is in town to deliver a series of lectures at the British Film Institute.
"We must have the most fanatically precise English tea," Zizek insists, gesticulating dramatically in the style of a European dictator. "Everything must be exactly the way the English do it: clotted cream, cucumber sandwiches, scones. It must be the most radically English experience possible!"...
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SOURCE: McNay, Lois. "Unstable in Slovenia." Times Literary Supplement, no. 5048 (31 December 1999): 23.
[In the following review, McNay provides an overview of Žižek's theories of subjectivity, ideology, and psychoanalysis in The Ticklish Subject, asserting that the work is "the most systematic exposition of Žižek's theories so far."]
Slavoj Žižek is a Slovenian academic, political activist and one of the leading members of the Lacanian "Ljubljana group", which uses the work of the French psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan to interpret a range of philosophical and cultural texts, from Hegel and Heidegger through to Hitchcock and Hollywood. An explicit aim of the Ljubljana group is to use psychoanalytic theory to reinvigorate Marxist leftism, and, in 1989, Žižek stood as a candidate in the Slovenian presidential elections.
The Ticklish Subject offers the most systematic exposition of the foundations of Žižek's theories so far. His concern to revivify leftist politics is motivated by the disillusioning passage of Eastern European countries from socialism to capitalism, in which the civilized Czechs, once mobilized by the appeal of Havel and other cultural icons, are suddenly turned into "cheap swindlers of Western tourists". In contrast to the pragmatic nature of British politics, post-Communist Slovenian politics is strongly influenced by intellectual...
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SOURCE: Guerra, Gustavo. "Psychoanalysis and Presuppositions." Style 34, no. 1 (spring 2000): 144-48.
[In the following essay, Guerra finds basic inconsistencies in Žižek's theoretical framework in Cogito and the Unconscious that ultimately undermine the volume as a whole.]
I start from the obviously basic premise that most readers of this review would like to get some information about Cogito and the Unconscious. That being the case, it follows that my title here may be somewhat misleading, if not blatantly confusing, and perhaps even irrelevant. But readers even vaguely familiar with pragmatist philosophy will notice, in my title, the echo of Richard Rorty's well-known essay "Does Academic Freedom Have Philosophical Presuppositions?" In that essay Rorty summarizes, better than anything I can think of, a central tenet of the brand of pragmatism that has of late been known as "neopragmatism," or "the new pragmatism." Rorty argues that our traditional reliance on guiding principles to justify practices is initially misguided. Rorty argues, moreover, that such presuppositional relationship is in fact nonexistent insofar as practices presuppose beliefs only if dropping a belief implies a change in the particular practice. What this means—or what Rorty would want it to mean—is that practices are independent of the particular beliefs we might have about them. And when a...
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SOURCE: Mitrano, Mena. "Psychoanalysis and the Moth." College Literature 27, no. 2 (spring 2000): 201-06.
[In the following essay, Mitrano compares Cogito and the Unconscious with Tobin Siebers's The Subject and Other Subjects, emphasizing how each work addresses theories of philosophy and politics.]
In a recent seminar, philosopher Maurizio Ferraris remarked that our epoch is thoroughly aestheticized. Cogito and the Unconscious, the new collection of essays on Lacanian psychoanalysis edited by Slavoj Zizek, speaks to this aestheticization with the image of a subject beating like a moth against the windowpane of a social code s/he seeks to renew. This assessment is not very different from the Lacan-inspired account of subjectivity Julia Kristeva offered more than twenty years ago. At that time, to make up for linguistics' failure to apprehend "anything in language which belongs not with the social contract but with play, pleasure or desire" (26), Kristeva invented semanalysis, a procedure that identifies in the subject's "capacity for enjoyment" (27) the key to renewing the order in which s/he seems apocalyptically trapped. But if the special effect of jouissance has freed the subject from the strictures of the social code, it has also magnified its tremblings. Like the subterranean being in Elizabeth Bishop's "The Man-Moth," our post-social code subject has...
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SOURCE: Žižek, Slavoj, and Christopher Hanlon. "Psychoanalysis and the Post-Political: An Interview with Slavoj Žižek." New Literary History 32, no. 1 (winter 2001): 1-21.
[In the following interview, Žižek discusses his later critical works, the criticism surrounding his use of Lacanian theory, and the developing political situation in the former Yugoslavia.]
For many, Jacques Lacan represents postmodern theory at its height—that is, at its worst. Lacan, so say his detractors, made a career out of obscurantism, and may not even have believed very much of what he said. Noam Chomsky once indicated such a hypothesis when he explained that "my frank opinion is that [Lacan] was a conscious charlatan, and he was simply playing games with the Paris intellectual community to see how much absurdity he could produce and still be taken seriously."1 Even Lacanians might find it in their hearts to forgive Chomsky such a remark, since it was Chomsky who, after asking Lacan a question concerning thought (at the latter's 1968 presentation at MIT), received the reply, "We think we think with our brain; personally, I think with my feet. That's the only way I come into contact with anything solid. I do occasionally think with my forehead, when I bang into something."2 As if to condense the aura of contrariness and enigma he cultivated in such exchanges, Lacan often relayed his...
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SOURCE: Webb, Stephen H. Review of The Fragile Absolute, or, Why Is the Christian Legacy Worth Fighting For?, by Slavoj Žižek. Christian Century 118, no. 22 (1 August 2001): 31-2.
[In the following review, Webb assesses Žižek's theoretical approach to Christian doctrine in The Fragile Absolute from the perspective of a practicing Christian.]
The rumor swept through my circle of friends like wildfire: Bob Dylan had been converted to Christianity (by Larry Norman, no less) and was going to release a religious album! This was many years before Christian rock became mainstream, with mega-hit bands like Creed. In the '70s, contemporary Christian music occupied a small ghetto in the entertainment world, stigmatized by its association with the inherent rebelliousness of rock-and-roll. Musicians like Norman, Keith Green and Phil Keaggy, however, helped many young evangelicals reconcile their cultural isolation from pop culture. My friends and I were desperate to have rock music affirm our faith, in part, I am sure, so that we could listen to it with a clean conscience. We even entertained reckless dreams that Dylan would ignite a renaissance of religious music as powerful as any pagan revelry.
Dylan's faith has come and gone, but pop music is in the church to stay. It is not clear, however, whether the church has baptized rock-and-roll in order to save others or to save...
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SOURCE: Callinicos, Alex. "Changing the Possible." Times Literary Supplement, no. 5133 (17 August 2001): 30.
[In the following review, Callinicos observes that Žižek's dominant thematic focus in Did Somebody Say Totalitarianism? is "the conditions of authentic political action."]
How does Slavoj Z̆ĭZ̆ek do it? Since The Sublime Object of Ideology, his first book in English, appeared in 1989, the Slovene cultural theorist and Lacanian analyst has bombarded us with so many erudite, witty and challenging works that even his publishers must have lost count. Perhaps it is a mistake to think of these as separate books rather than chapters in a single, vast and continuing philosophical roman fleuve in which Z̆ĭZ̆ek overwhelms his readers with jokes, arguments, film criticism and political polemic. In the process, he has emerged as one of the major philosophers of the Western Left.
Did Somebody Say Totalitarianism? is the latest instalment. Its ostensible target is what Žižek calls the "Denkverbot (prohibition against thinking)"—he has in mind the old West German Berufsverbot, banning state employment of leftists—that "shamefully exploits the horrors of Gulag or Holocaust as the ultimate bogey for blackmailing us into renouncing all serious engagement". This does not mean that Žižek ignores Hitler's and Stalin's crimes—on the...
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SOURCE: Wheatley, David. Review of On Belief, by Slavoj Žižek. Times Literary Supplement, no. 5136 (7 September 2001): 33.
[In the following review, Wheatley offers a positive assessment of On Belief, calling the work "an honest and admirable meditation on what belief may mean today."]
Slavoj Zizek takes the question of belief very seriously. On Belief begins with a description of a recent episode of the Larry King Show in which a rabbi, a Catholic priest and a Southern Baptist are discussing ecumenism. The rabbi and the priest agree that, irrespective of creed, a truly good person can rely on divine grace and redemption. The Baptist thinks otherwise: only those who "live in Christ" can be saved, which means that sadly "a lot of good and honest people will burn in hell". Zizek wants us to dwell on this as an illustration of the basic premiss of On Belief: that to "break the liberal-democratic hegemony", an authentic radical position must be prepared to "endorse its materialist version". He goes on to discuss the radical legacies of Christianity and a more recent religion, Marxism-Leninism. Zizek argues that the suppression of the Cathar heresy by the Church was prompted not by its divergence from orthodox teaching, but by its laying bare of the inherently transgressive content of orthodoxy itself. For an ideology to achieve hegemonic status, it...
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SOURCE: Morrison, Kevin A. Review of Did Somebody Say Totalitarianism?: Five Interventions in the Mis(use) of a Notion, by Slavoj Žižek. Theoria, no. 98 (December 2001): 118-20.
[In the following review, Morrison argues that Žižek fails to introduce any significantly new concepts in Did Somebody Say Totalitarianism? and faults Žižek for simply presenting theories already put forth in his many previous publications.]
On receiving Slavoj Žižek's latest book, Did Somebody Say Totalitarianism?: Five Interventions on the (Mis)use of a Notion, one might recall that familiar saying, "How can I miss you if you won't go away?" Virtually no publishing season passes without a new book by Žižek and spring 2001 is no different with Did Somebody Say Totalitarianism? and a revised edition of Enjoy Your Symptom! both recently released.
The premise of Did Somebody Say Totalitarianism? is that the notion of totalitarianism is "a kind of stopgap: instead of enabling us to think, forcing us to acquire a new insight into the historical reality it describes, it relieves us of the duty to think, or even actively prevents us from thinking". How? In Žižek's estimation the left has essentially thrown up its collective hands in agreement that liberal democracy reigns supreme and is thus attempting to redefine itself firmly within the...
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SOURCE: Salih, Sabah A. Review of Did Somebody Say Totalitarianism?: Five Interventions in the Mis(use) of a Notion, by Slavoj Žižek. World Literature Today 76, no. 2 (spring 2002): 252.
[In the following review, Salih describes Did Somebody Say Totalitarianism? as Žižek's effort to rescue academic thinking from the restrictions of literary theory and cultural studies.]
A few years back, Frank Lentricchia, then one of the biggest names around in Literary Theory, created quite a stir by announcing in the now defunct Lingua Franca why he had decided not to have anything to do any more with Theory. Theory, he complained, had robbed thinking of its dialectical edge, thinking in effect becoming a matter of just plain "xeroxing," something like "Tell me your theory and I will tell you what you would say, even about books that you haven't read." A recent (4 October 2001) London Review of Books roundtable in response to the September 11th terrorist attacks perfectly illustrates Lentricchia's point. The contributors all seem to have proceeded according to some unwritten rules that basically determine what is being said. Edward Said, for example, cannot bring himself to say much else beyond his usual criticism of America as a place where Arabs and Muslims are not welcome; and the antifoundationalist Richard Rorty, unwilling to take grand narratives seriously, can only hope...
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SOURCE: Crockett, Clayton. Review of The Fragile Absolute, or, Why Is the Christian Legacy Worth Fighting For?, by Slavoj Žižek. Theoria, no. 99 (June 2002): 141-43.
[In the following review, Crockett lauds Žižek's unique cultural perspective in The Fragile Absolute and recommends the volume to "scholars and thinkers working at the intersections of philosophy, cultural and political theory, and religious thought."]
Slavoj Žižek is one of the most creative and original thinkers on the contemporary scene. His philosophical juxtaposition of Hegel and Lacan, his political commitment to a certain Marxism which has affinities with Althusser and the Frankfurt School, along with his engaging prose that illuminates movies and other aspects of contemporary culture, combine to make his voice unique and important. The Fragile Absolute, a follow-up to The Ticklish Subject, unites social and political analysis with a consideration of religion.
As the subtitle suggests, Žižek deals less with Christianity itself than with a specific legacy, here based on Alan Badiou's reading of St. Paul. On this reading, "Christianity and Marxism should fight on the same side of the barricade against the onslaught of the new spiritualisms" (p. 2). New age spiritualisms converge with perverse aspects of a well-intentioned tolerance and multiculturalism that represses national...
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SOURCE: Bullimore, Matthew. Review of The Ticklish Subject: The Absent Centre of Political Ontology and Did Somebody Say Totalitarianism?: Five Interventions in the Mis(use) of a Notion, by Slavoj Žižek. Literature and Theology 16, no. 3 (August 2002): 342-45.
[In the following review, Bullimore compliments Žižek's skill with constructing coherent political arguments in The Ticklish Subject and Did Somebody Say Totalitarianism?, commenting that "Žižek's work provides valuable insight into the mechanisms of our contemporary universe."]
The Ticklish Subject and Did Somebody Say Totalitarianism? are two of Slavoj Žižek's most recent interventions into political theory. He has recently published two works (The Fragile Absolute, or, Why Is the Christian Legacy Worth Fighting For? Verso: London, 2000 and On Belief, Routledge: London, 2001), dovetailing with the volumes under consideration, which focus more specifically on theological themes. All four books, however, show Žižek's present interest in using the logic of Christianity to exemplify what he sees as authentic revolutionary commitment.
Žižek's work comes out of the Slovene/Ljubljiana Lacanian school. The school is non-clinical but uses Lacanian psychoanalysis as the privileged lens in its philosophical hermeneutic. Lacanian theory is deployed in order to describe,...
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SOURCE: Hussey, Andrew. "The Game of War." New Statesman 131, no. 4604 (9 September 2002): 50-1.
[In the following review, Hussey discusses books by three different cultural theorists examining the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on the United States—Žižek's Welcome to the Desert of the Real, Paul Virillio's Ground Zero, and Jean Baudrillard's The Spirit of Terrorism and Requiem for the Twin Towers Hussey concludes that all three works lack a sense of compassion for the victims of the attacks.]
The tradition of French apologists for terror is as long as it is undistinguished. From the fall of the Girondins in 1793 to Michel Foucault's impassioned defence of the Iranian revolution of 1979, French intellectual life has been shaped by revolutionary violence; indeed, it is one of the founding myths of French political thought. The publication, then, of these essays by two leading French thinkers and a fellow-traveller [Žižek's Welcome to the Desert of the Real, Paul Virillio's Ground Zero, and Jean Baudrillard's The Spirit of Terrorism and Requiem for the Twin Towers] on the events of 11 September 2001, and their aftermath, is, to say the least, intriguing.
A couple of years ago, I saw Jean Baudrillard give a lecture in Paris. Solidly built—nothing of the fey academic about him—he spoke with an almost Presbyterian rigour and...
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SOURCE: Hook, Derek. Review of On Belief, Revolution at the Gates: Selected Writings of Lenin from 1917, and Welcome to the Desert of the Real, by Slavoj Žižek. Theoria, no. 101 (June 2003): 148-52.
[In the following review, Hook discusses several of Žižek's recent publications—including On Belief, Revolution at the Gates: Selected Writings of Lenin from 1917, and Welcome to the Desert of the Real—noting that all three texts explore similar subject material.]
In three titles, published over a short period of time, Slavoj Žižek has spread out the arguments and concerns of a single book, not to mention a series of similar examples and, in fact, similar tracts of text. One wonders whether this is the first sign of the dissipation of Žižek's intellectual aura, an indication, through repetition and overlap, that the popular theorist has started spreading himself too thin. There are a series of recurring themes across the titles, amongst which include the U.S. political crisis after September 11, the worldwide threat of supposed 'Fundamentalism', the continual juxtaposition of irrational religious belief with technologized, consumerist atheism, the growing threat of the new European Right-wing, the Palestinian question, and the ongoing persistence of Holocaust debates.
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Further Reading
Davis, Erik. Review of The Puppet and the Dwarf: The Perverse Core of Christianity, by Slavoj Žižek. Artforum International 10, no. 3 (fall 2003): 27.
Davis examines Žižek's darkly satirical take on Christianity in The Puppet and the Dwarf, commending the author's "powerful, if perverse, turn toward religious thought."
Humphrey, Michael. "New Visions of the State." Social Analysis 46, no. 1 (spring 2002): 153-69.
Humphrey offers a overview of Žižek's central ideas on globalization and the postcolonial state in Did Somebody Say Totalitarianism?
Mead, Rebecca. "The Marx Brother." New Yorker 79, no. 10 (5 May 2003): 38-40.
Mead provides a general discussion of the influence of Žižek's scholarship, as well as his celebrity status, on the world of academia.
Restivo, Angelo. "Lacan according to Žižek." Quarterly Review of Film and Video 16, no. 2 (September 1997): 193-206.
Restivo explores the significance of Žižek's Looking Awry: An Introduction to Jacques Lacan through Popular Culture to the fields of psychoanalysis, political ideology, and media studies.
Stavrakakis, Yannis. Review of The Ticklish Subject: The Absent Centre of Political Ontology, by Slavoj Žižek....
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Source: Contemporary Literary Criticism, ©2004 Gale Cengage. All Rights Reserved. Full copyright.


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Chisinau, Moldova, 17 December 2013
In preparation for the 29th ERC and the 38th Session of the ECA, which will be held from 1 – 4 April 2014 in Bucharest, Romania a Second Informal Consultation will be organized by the Regional Office for Europe and Central Asia.
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Deadline for registration: 12 December.
Stronger cooperation with the Eurasian Economic Commission Tony Alonzi, acting FAO Regional Representative for Europe and Central Asia and Sergey Sergeevitch Sidorsky Member of the Board and Minister for Industry and the Agro-industrial Complex of the Eurasian Economic Commission signed a Memorandum of Understanding.
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The Paducah Tilghman High School senior said she doesn't see any reason to involve herself in an activity unless she plans to participate in it fully.
Humphrey admits her attitude brings some challenges. She said she's not naturally a leader — in fact, she describes herself as introverted — and juggling her multitude of interests can prove difficult. But she doesn't let that stand in her way.
"I never really back down from anything," said Humphrey, who's involved in the academic team, mock trial, and several community service organizations. "I'm really driven."
Alicia Humphrey, daughter of David and Danette Humphrey, is the Mid-Continent University Teen of the Week. Each Monday, the Sun features a different MCU Teen of the Week selected from nominees who guidance counselors throughout western Kentucky and southern Illinois submit to the Sun. Mid-Continent University will provide each Teen of the Week with a $2,500 annual scholarship to its university, which is renewable for four years. In the spring, a Teen of the Year will be chosen from the weekly winners. The Teen of the Year is eligible for a full four-year scholarship to Mid-Continent University or a cash award of $2,500, paid through the Paducah Sun, if the student selects another college to attend.
Of all her activities, Humphrey said music has proven the most helpful in overcoming some of her anxieties, and she's picked up a few life lessons along the way.
Humphrey has been a member of the Tilghman concert choir for four years, and is a two-year member of Concordia, Tilghman's selective a cappella chorus. As the first-chair cellist for the PTHS Chamber Orchestra and a member of the Paducah Symphony Youth Orchestra, she encounters plenty of opportunities to perform and move past the occasional bout of stage fright.
"I enjoy (music) because it's an individual thing, and it also teaches you how to work with other people. ... It's taught me how to work hard and not just settle for good, but to make everything the best that it can be," she said.
She added that music has helped her learn not to worry about standing out, but rather to develop a group-focused attitude.
But when the time comes to lead, Humphrey is more than willing to take the reins. She only began working as a staff writer for The Tilghman Bell as a junior, but has already earned the position of editor-in-chief this year. Aside from writing features and news stories, Humphrey supervises page layout and proofreads other students' articles.
Susan Hancock, who instructed Humphrey in two advanced-placement courses and serves as adviser to the school newspaper, wrote that Humphrey immediately assumed responsibility far beyond that of a first-year writer when she joined the staff of the Bell.
"(As editor,) she worked many afternoons after school to assure that the paper was ready to go to press by the deadline. She has a sense of responsibility rare in someone her age," Hancock added.
Humphrey said she uses time-management skills — "I'm a big believer in the agenda; I carry that with me all the time," she said — and an optimistic outlook to help her when she feels overwhelmed.
"I just feel like you should do your best at everything that you do. I'm a big believer that if you do that, everything's going to fall into place, and there's no need to worry about things that are out of your control," Humphrey said.
Contact Laurel Black, a Paducah Sun staff writer, at 270-575-8641.


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Cellar/Tasting Notes The goal at Acacia is to interfere as little as possible in order to preserve maximum flavor of their wine with clarity and balance. They believe in the grapes and the land. The 2012 Chardonnay epitomizes this goal as it is a balanced and refreshing chardonnay with aromatic notes of fresh melon,..
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Cellar/Tasting Notes "The 2010 Chardonnay Los Alamos Vineyard shows the more delicate side of Chardonnay in its understated personality. Lemon, pears, white flowers and a subtle hint of oak flow through nicely to the mineral-laced finish."
Cellar/Tasting Notes "Sniff it and you sense the complexity, definition and elegance. Good, tiny bubbles stream up steadily, bringing notes of chalk, candied fruit and caramel. In the mouth, it fills out across the palate with mixed flavors that show stone fruits, caramel and oily, slightly buttery nuts. Very..
Cellar/Tasting Notes The Champagne displays a pure, pale gold color brightened with green accents, showing fine, generous bubbles and a delicate mousse. The elegant bouquet is perfumed with white flowers, which will, given time, evolve further to reveal notes of brioche and fresh butter. On the palate, the wine is..
Cellar/Tasting Notes "Foxen's UU Block from the famed Bien Nacido Vineyard fights it out every year with the estate Tinaquaic Chardonnay for top honors. In this cool vintage, the former wins out by a hair. Dry, steely and crisp in acidity, it shows vast tropical fruit, orange, vanilla, honey and buttered toast flavors..
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Cellar/Tasting Notes Donelan's 2011 Chardonnay Nancie is pretty and expressive. Another wine with lovely textural depth and nuance, the 2011 is laced with dried apricots, nectarines, flowers and mint, all of which come together in the glass. Though medium in body, the 2011 impresses for its soft, caressing personality..
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What you'll need:
-a laptop computer, pda, or other electronic device
-yarn (I used about 10 skeins for this)
-knitting needles (straight, double-pointed, and circular)
-stitch markers
-stitch holders
-yarn needle
-a sense of humor
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-thrilled to finally find the origin, and unsurprised that this is where it originated. Bravo!
Great instructable by the way. =)
other than that it is awesome. it kinda looks like a giraffes sweater with the holes for the forelegs and the looong neck but it looks nice. i cannot believe that, that was even possible by hand. good job.
PS. for privacy you should look at the recent newsletter with the privacy screen.
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One of the best parts about keeping this blog is that it's mine. This type of autonomy comes with a nice freedom, but is also involves a chunk of self-imposed pressure. There's a slew of things I enjoy and stress out about keeping this thing running, and for the first time since I started keeping it in late 2007, I took a break. It was great! Some of the things that have happened since June:
I turned 32. One of the snarkiest jokes I've heard in a while comes from my buddy Amy Nicole Miller. We're always talking about identity – amidst jokes and earnest declarations, we learn from each other. I share anecdotes about gay male culture and she explains a lot about being Femme.
(Quick lessons for you: 1. Queer female households are ALWAYS surprised by the amount of noise dudes make when they pee and 2. Lots of Femmes are in a unique position in queer culture because they can pass as straight but also get can get overlooked/talked-over in queer social settings )
Back to the snarkiest thing. One day Amy was joking about identifying as someone in their mid-twenties (she's not) and was adamant that no one could question it because it was how she identifies. It was a smart, sassy take on the sacred shroud queers tend to place over their uniqueness and if I could remember the cracks that ensued after that back-handed indignance, you'd be jealous. Don't get me wrong, I love people's individuality. However, I also think the queer community could benefit from laughing at itself. If we did more of that, our differences in age, gender, styles and levels of awkwardness would be embraced and used as a basis to be CHARMING. I love charming people. I want to be around more of them.
What else? I saw "The Kids Are Alright," which is a cute movie about a privileged family with seriously undercooked racial issues. My girl Holly Hughes started writing something and inspired me to do the same. That will have its own post for SURE.
My best friend adopted a baby. A truly gorgeous, perfect gayby. I have a new life as the uncle I could never be with my own blood nephews, and I'm THRILLED. Of course, this has started all kinds of inner dialogue about what it means to be radical, and I think I've decided I'm on the right path. Questions I've asked and not yet answered: Is moving to the hills, the country or otherwise being off the "grid" radical? Can you hold your head up high as an environmentalist while still living in and consuming in a major city? Is gay marriage a worthy fight? If you don't want to get gay married, should you still prioritize it? Are you in a position where your once-radical friends are now only concerned about gay marriage and baby poop? I take comfort in the fact that once-radical people have the option to settle down and safely make and raise innately progressive gaybies. As complacent as it seems to still-picketing queers, it's an option that has only developed in the past 10 years, and that's fucking amazing. And just to throw a little fire, the struggles that gay parents are undertaking on a personal level are every bit as vital to the struggle as protests and boycotts. Do you think a gayby isn't going to get harassed in school? Do you think gay parents aren't fighting for the right to be present AND comfortable at teacher meetings and block parties and birthday parties or otherwise casual scenarios? While some of us risk money or safety, others risk their pride and their relationships. They are all worth our respect.
Camp Trans had a major incident with violence and might not ever be the same. I'm still reading about it, but basically some trans women were bashed at the gates of Mich fest, and people in and out of trans circles are pointing fingers of blame and assimilationism. It's a mess. This will also get its own post.
Dyke March Chicago moved to the South Side and reclaimed…a bike path? I might be ruffling the wrong feathers here, but to be sure, these are supportive ruffles. A move to the South Side is vital to the essence of the Dyke March as a protest and vehicle for visibility, but we spent most of our walk on a bike path, away from residents. Full disclosure: I did not help plan the March, so you could say I should STFU. But I wasn't the only person asking why we were so secluded from the neighborhood, and I hope to have more time on South Side streets next year. I'm sure the fine folks at DMC are already talking about it–The City of Chicago is marvelous but it'll be damned before it doesn't make you pay for a permit to sneeze in public, and charge you extra to cough into a microphone. Let's keep this momentum going!
Hm. What else? OH YEAH. America is taking its frustration about the economy out on immigrants, and HOLY SHIT is it getting ugly. What is most horrifying to me is that this effort is all about South of the Border skin color–no one is targeting our many European immigrants. Arizona's law is about skin color. The newest rumblings about the citizenship of children of undocumented immigrants? They are directly tied to statistics about the growing Latino population. The brave people behind The Dream Act and the basic concept of being out as undocumented is INSPIRING to say the least. This is one of the most radical things I've seen in my lifetime, and how this plays out will probably be one of the most charged and emotional processes in legislation reform. These are Latinos we're talking about, after all.
So, I'm back from blogging vacay, but let's be honest–this place don't pay the bills. I MUST prioritize the things that provide me with stability. This blog provides me visibility and sanity, but I can't be either of those if I'm homeless. Love y'all. If you miss these posts, follow my tweets! I'm FUNNY.