Slavoj Zizek377 definitions
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1968 (n.) is not a revolt, but merely a shift to new forms of domination in which a scientific discourse legitimizes the relations of domination. As lacan said, 'as hysterics, you demand a new master. You will get it.
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911 (n.) is a rude awakening out of utopia and back into history. 9/11. It signalled the end of the end of history.
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The Abnormal (n.) is not a marginal malfunctioning but an effect of the very structure of the system, which is essentially 'corrupt'.
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The Act (n.) is bound by a paradox. On the one hand, it is necessary to act prematurely, without objective justification. On the other hand, a simple acting-out or passage a l'acte merely reproduces the ideological coordinates in which it takes place.
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An Act (n.) is not simply works well within the framework of the existing relations, but changes the very framework that determines how things work.
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An Act (n.) is paradoxically determined only afterwards on the proverbial 'morning after'. Only then does it become clear what was merely a libertarian pathetic outburst and what was a true revolutionary upheaval.
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Administration (n.) is neutral, but neutrality based on power-relations that sustain the 'neutral' functioning.
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Alienation (n.) is a necessity as the very condition of the symbolic order.
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The America (n.) is, despite what American's think, not an ideal. Other nations are not just proto-Americans waiting to be delivered from their bad nationalist spell.
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Amor fati (n.) is the act of freely assuming what is otherwise necessary. It is the activity of submitting oneself to the inevitable.
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Anamorphosis (n.) is distortion such that a gaze is inscribed into its objective features.
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Antisemitism (n.) is not just saying that Jews are dirty, exploiting, manipulative, etc., but that they are all these things because they are Jews. As such, anti-semitism is a form which involves a tautology that maligns the very essence.