
ZIZ001 A Lacanian Plea for Fundamentalism (18.09.2000)
Slavoj Žižek - Collected Recordings
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The Paradox of Cyberspace Ideology
Gnosticism is a strange bodily spirituality the idea not simply of leaving behind this heavy inert material of our body of entering pure spirit but of entering another bodily dimension. The prospect of virtual reality is that it will be possible at a certain point through direct neurological implants to switch directly from our common reality to another computer related computer sorry computer generated reality and so on and so on. Both these prospects radical subjectiveization in the sense of reality itself will become virtualized reality will lose its resistance the friction which defines it at reality, he says.
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