ZIZ015 The Return to Hegel (2009)
Slavoj Žižek - Collected Recordings
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The Retroactive Movement
The film does not repeat the novel on which it is based, rather that they both repeat the unrepeatable virtual objects. What is missing here is some retroactive movement and I think this is again absolutely crucial to understand. The movement described was as far as I know first conceptualised by Ann Lee Bathgate some years ago. She said she experienced what William James spoke about, a feeling of admiration for the facility of the passage from the abstract to the concrete. Who would have thought that such a formidable event can emerge in reality with so little fuss, she wrote.
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