{"id":10849,"date":"2013-04-18T19:11:47","date_gmt":"2013-04-19T00:11:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/?p=10849"},"modified":"2013-04-18T19:34:07","modified_gmt":"2013-04-19T00:34:07","slug":"zizek-derrida-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/2013\/04\/18\/zizek-derrida-2\/","title":{"rendered":"\u017di\u017eek Derrida 2 lesson of Hegel"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u017di\u017eek, Slavoj. “A Plea for a Return to Diff\u00e9rance (with a Minor Pro Domo Sua)” Critical Inquiry.<\/em> 32.2 (2006): 226-249.<\/p>\n

What, then, would be this differ\u00e9nce<\/span> that precedes the ethical commit-ment to the abyss of Otherness?<\/p>\n

On the southern side of the demilitarized zone in Korea, there is a unique visitor\u2019s site: a theater building with a large screenlike window in front, opening up onto theNorth. The spectaclepeo-ple observe when they take seats and look through the window is reality itself (or, rather, a kind of \u201cdesert of the real\u201d):<\/strong> the barren demilitarized zone with walls, and so on, and, beyond, a glimpse of North Korea. (As if to comply with the fiction, North Korea has built in front of this theater a fake, a model village with beautiful houses; in the evening, the lights in all the houses are turned on at the same time, although nobody lives in them.)<\/p>\n

Is this not a pure case of the symbolic efficiency of the frame as such? A \u00a0barren zone is given a fantasmatic status, elevated into a spectacle, solely by \u00a0being enframed. Nothing substantially changes here; it is merely that,\u00a0viewed through the frame, reality turns into its own appearance.<\/span><\/p>\n

A supreme case of such an ontological comedy occurred in December 2001 in Buenos Aires, when Argentinians took to the streets to protest against their government and, especially, against Cavallo, the economy minister. When the crowd gathered around Cavallo\u2019s building, threatening to storm it, he escaped wearing a mask of himself (sold in disguise shops so that people could mock him by wearing his mask).<\/p>\n

It thus seems that at least Cavallo did learn something from the widely spread Lacanian movement in Argentina \u2014 the \u00a0fact that a thing is its own best mask.<\/span> What one encounters in tautology is \u00a0thus pure <\/span>difference<\/span>, not the<\/strong> difference<\/span> between the element and other elements, but how<\/strong> the element is different from itself.<\/span> 234<\/p>\n

The fundamental lesson of Hegel<\/span> is that the key ontological problem is not that of reality but that of appearance: not, Are we condemned to the interminable play of appearances, or can we penetrate through their veil to the underlying true reality?<\/p>\n

but, How could \u2014 in the middle of flat, stupid reality, which is just there \u2014 something like appearance emerge?<\/span><\/p>\n

The minimal ontology is therefore that of the<\/strong> M\u00f6bius strip<\/span>, of the curved space<\/span> that is bent onto itself; all that has to intervene into the Real<\/span> is an empty frame so that the same things we saw \u201cdirectly\u201d before are now seen through the frame.<\/p>\n

A certain surplus-effect is thus generated, which cannot simply be cancelled through demystification. It is not enough to display the mechanism behind the frame; the stage-effect within the frame becomes autonomous. How is this possible?<\/p>\n

There is only one conclusion that can account for this gap: there is no \u201cneutral\u201d reality within which gaps occur, within which frames isolate domains of appearances.<\/p>\n

Every field of \u201creality\u201d (every \u201cworld\u201d) is always already enframed, seen through an invisible frame. However, the parallax of the two frames is not symmetrical, composed of two incompatible perspectives on the same x:<\/span> there is an irreducible asymmetry between the two perspectives, a minimal reflexive twist.<\/p>\n

We do not have two perspectives; we have a perspective and what eludes it, and the other perspective fills in this void of what we could not see from the first perspective. 235<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u017di\u017eek, Slavoj. “A Plea for a Return to Diff\u00e9rance (with a Minor Pro Domo Sua)” Critical Inquiry. 32.2 (2006): 226-249. What, then, would be this differ\u00e9nce that precedes the ethical commit-ment to the abyss of Otherness? On the southern side of the demilitarized zone in Korea, there is a unique visitor\u2019s site: a theater building … Continue reading “\u017di\u017eek Derrida 2 lesson of Hegel”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73,100,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10849","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-derrida","category-hegel","category-zizek"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10849","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10849"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10849\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10851,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10849\/revisions\/10851"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}