/lit/ - Literature

>>16818550
Zizek

>>14012544
you have an identity, and this is not your identity. The same as A is not equal to A, or that Being is Nothing. You attempt to just be yourself, you fail, and that failure is you being yourself.

Theorem III, the longest part of the book, articulates the contours of this convoluted space in its three main forms: those of the Möbius strip, the cross-cap, and the Klein bottle—a triad which echoes the basic triad of Hegel’s logic: being, essence, notion.5 The Möbius strip renders the continuous passage of a concept into its opposite (being passes into nothingness, quantity into quality, etc.). The cross-cap introduces a cut into this continuity, and this cut makes the relationship between the two opposites that of reflection: with the cross-cap, pure difference enters the stage, the difference between appearance and essence, a thing and its properties, cause and its effects, etc. With the Klein bottle, subjectivity enters: in it, the circle of reflexivity is brought to the Absolute, the cause becomes nothing but an effect of its effects, etc. (that’s why the Klein bottle cannot be rendered in three-dimensional space).6

Theorem IV recapitulates the basic philosophical motif of the book, that of the persistence of abstraction (of radical negativity which cannot be “sublated” into a subordinated moment of concrete totality) in its three figures: the excess of madness as a permanent ground of human reason, the excess of deadly sexual passion which poses a threat to any stable relationship, the excess of war which grounds the ethics of communal life. This negativity is what assemblage theory (or any other form of realist ontology) cannot fully take into account, and it is also what introduces into an assemblage the irreducible dimension of subjectivity.

>>10444205
What we're talking about when we discuss dumpsters and so on is sabi (寂) on a massive scale. What's horrifying about trash is not the destruction of nature or humanity or another such entity, but the destruction of the very system that creates it. Our system of production functions through unobstrusiveness: it advances through equation of products -- not the equation of products in an exchange, i.e. a=b; but the equation a series, i.e. a=a. The problem is that a=a must be either false or meaningless. A pair of can of Coke must be different, but in being different they cannot be can of Coke. Our mass production exists in a realm of unobstrusiveness, it purports itself to be capable to go on forever, and its appeal lies in infinity, but it has its grounds on that which is finite. The amount of metal in this world cannot become an infinite amount of Coke cans, but Coke cans are necessarily infinite. The masses are abstract, but abstractions cannot concretely exist. The Coke cans all decay.

Nowadays we don't live in an age of chaos or a coming apocalypse. Only the ideologically possessed believe it to be so, halfly believe it, because they can only halfly believe. Today we live in an age of ever increasing order. Order does not function by simple admistration, by putting square pieces in square holes; on the contrary, what order creates is space. Its purpose is to create spaces of assured exchange, in the sense of exchange value. It's not the monolith, but the road (道) that is order's true face: the destruction of all process and mediation.

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>>8927426
Nope.

>>8868202

i got some norweigan wood when the main character shagged his dead girlfriend's roommate.

>>8855647

>>8718375
ziz-kek

>>8479251
dick in son
>haha