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An Afternoon with Slavoj Zizek -- Lacan

Why Theory

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The Best Practice for Reading Someone Critically

Best practice for reading a philosopher critically is to locate a point in that thinkers philosophy where their thought like it exceeds them and that they actually fail to pay fidelity to that idea. So dosting is the object some some it's the I mean we can talk about it in a variety of ways but it's the intern the subject's internal opacity, he says. He compares it to the alien in the alien films right so that would be a great example of dosting even in the carpenter film the thing there's all  it's funny how science fiction keeps coming back to this actually naming itYeah yeah that's greatyeah well hawks did it first don't hawks did

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