{"id":9158,"date":"2012-07-30T23:49:22","date_gmt":"2012-07-31T04:49:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/?p=9158"},"modified":"2012-07-31T11:08:11","modified_gmt":"2012-07-31T16:08:11","slug":"real-defined-in-ltn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/2012\/07\/30\/real-defined-in-ltn\/","title":{"rendered":"Real defined in LTN"},"content":{"rendered":"

There is not just the interplay of appearances, there is a Real \u2014 this Real, however, is not the inaccessibleThing, but the gap<\/em> which prevents our access to it, the “rock” of the antagonism which distorts our view of the perceived object through a partial perspective. The “truth” is thus not the “real” state of things, accessed by a “direct” view of the object without any perspectival distortion, but the very Real of the antagonism which causes the perspectival distortion itself. Again, the site of truth is not the way “things really are in themselves;” beyond perspectival distortion, but the very gap or passage which separates one perspective from another, the gap (in this case, social antagonism) which makes the two perspectives radically incommensurable.\u00a0 The “Real as impossible” is the cause of the impossibility of our ever attaining the “neutral” non-perspectival view of the object. There is a truth, and not everything is relative-but this truth is the truth of the perspectival distortion as such<\/em>, not a truth distorted by the partial view from a one-sided perspective. 48<\/p>\n

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In this middle space, many weird things can take place-how can we not think of Gramsci’s remark: “the crisis lies precisely in the fact that the old is dying and the new cannot be born<\/strong>. In the interregnum, a variety of morbid symptoms appear”?<\/p>\n

The Real we are dealing with here is the Real of the pure virtual surface, the “incorporeal” Real<\/span>, which is to be opposed to the Real in its most terrifying imaginary dimension, the primordial abyss which swallows up everything, dissolving all identities<\/span>-a figure well known in literature in multiple guises, from Edgar Allan Poe’s maelstrom and Kurtz’s “horror” at the end of Conrad’s Heart of Darkness.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There is not just the interplay of appearances, there is a Real \u2014 this Real, however, is not the inaccessibleThing, but the gap which prevents our access to it, the “rock” of the antagonism which distorts our view of the perceived object through a partial perspective. The “truth” is thus not the “real” state of … Continue reading “Real defined in LTN”<\/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":[41,20],"tags":[116],"class_list":["post-9158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-real","category-zizek","tag-ltn"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9158","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=9158"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9158\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9166,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9158\/revisions\/9166"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}