true changes are painful… Violence should primarily be conceived as self-violence, as a violent reformation of the very substance of subjects being — therein resides the lesson of Fight Club.

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something like ‘Fight Clubs’ is recently emerging: ‘toughman-fights’ in which only amateur men (and women also) engage in violent boxing matches, getting their faces bloody, testing their limits. …These fights…are part of the potentially redemptive disciplinary drive

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The point is not to win (losers are often more popular..) , but…not to remain lying on the floor. Although these fights stand under the sign of ‘God bless America! ‘…one should not dismiss them..: they are part of the potentially redemptive disciplinary drive.

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What we need…is a certain violence against ourselves. In order to break out of an ideological, double-bind predicament, you need a kind of violent outburst. It is something shattering. Even if it is not physical violence, it is extreme symbolic violence

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The Real here is precisely that missed opportunity: the trauma of betrayal, of what might have been. The…fantasy of what might have happened is not simply an illusion, but functions as a betrayal or haunting of the Real.

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third world terror, disasters and so on were typically perceived as something fantasmatic and unreal…through a certain gaze that distanced them from the general experience of daily reality

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Cyberspace is..a way of escape from traumas & a way to formulate traumas …There is the danger of being caught in a kind of imaginary..circular movement, but..cyberspace opens up a space for encountering…the imaginary Real..of illusion, the traumatic dimension..we foreclose

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