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ZIZ004 The Reality of the Virtual (2004)

Slavoj Žižek - Collected Recordings

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The Importance of Formalism

Materialism is materialism of the difference. The primordial fact is pure self-difference, he says. We do not have some primordial polarity like masculine, feminine, light, darkness. In this original imbalance then sets emotion the generation of multiplicity. So again, difference paradoxically comes first. And against the reproach that we are dealing with some kind of idealism isn't matter, mix positive, inner presence, primordial.

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