{"id":9612,"date":"2012-10-24T10:23:36","date_gmt":"2012-10-24T15:23:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/?p=9612"},"modified":"2012-10-24T10:24:51","modified_gmt":"2012-10-24T15:24:51","slug":"9612","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/2012\/10\/24\/9612\/","title":{"rendered":"materiallty johnston"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/johnstonAdrianZizekHegel.pdf\">Johnston Review of Zizek&#8217;s Parallax View<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0<em> diacritics<\/em> Spring 2007, 37.1: 3\u201320<\/p>\n<p><strong>Corporeal<\/strong>: having, consisting of, or relating to a physical material body: as a : not spiritual b : not immaterial or intangible : substantial; material; tangible: corporeal property; the <em>corporeal<\/em> nature of matter<\/p>\n<p>the <span style=\"color: red; font-weight: bold;\">materialism<\/span> of which \u017di\u017eek speaks here is, &#8230; what both \u201c<strong>mechanical materialism<\/strong>\u201d and \u201c<strong>idealist obscurantism<\/strong>\u201d share in common \u2014 this link firmly shackles these two positions to each other, establishing an agreement underlying and organizing their more superficial disagreements \u2014 is a consensus stipulating that materiality is, when all is said and done, really just the corporeal substance of, say, Galileo or Newton (that is, <span style=\"color: #0000ff; font-weight: bold;\">physical objects blindly obeying the clockwork automaton embodied in the cause-and-effect laws of nature as formulated at the level of seventeenth and eighteenth-century science<\/span>).<\/p>\n<p>&#8230; today\u2019s predominant collective theoretical imagination, as expressed in continuing disputes between varieties of materialism and idealism that seemingly haven\u2019t digested certain recent scientific discoveries, remains stuck with representations of matter that predate the twentieth century.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230; certain crucial aspects of the sciences of the twentieth century accomplish, so to speak, a <span style=\"color: #0000ff; font-weight: bold;\">desubstantialization of substance<\/span> [Parallax View 165, 239, 407] (\u00e0 la, for instance, string theory\u2019s grounding of physical reality on ephemeral vibrating strands of energy captured solely through the intangible abstractions of branches of mathematics operating well beyond the limitations and confines of crude imaginative picture-thinking).\u00a0 This <span style=\"color: #0000ff; font-weight: bold;\">desubstantialization of substance makes possible a conception of materiality as open and contingent \u2014 in other words, as something quite distinct from the closed and necessary tangible stuff of old<\/span>. 9<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Johnston Review of Zizek&#8217;s Parallax View\u00a0\u00a0 diacritics Spring 2007, 37.1: 3\u201320 Corporeal: having, consisting of, or relating to a physical material body: as a : not spiritual b : not immaterial or intangible : substantial; material; tangible: corporeal property; the corporeal nature of matter the materialism of which \u017di\u017eek speaks here is, &#8230; what both &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/2012\/10\/24\/9612\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;materiallty johnston&#8221;<\/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":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9612","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-zizek"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9612","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=9612"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9612\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9619,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9612\/revisions\/9619"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}