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ZIZ015 The Return to Hegel (2009)
Slavoj Žižek - Collected Recordings
The Impossibility of Life
First it was probable but impossible, this is how it was subject to the experience, then when it happened, it suddenly became real and possible. This would be incidentally the best definition you can imagine of what Zachlachonz means an act. You do something which appears impossible but it retroactively as it were creates its own conditions of possibility. I never pretended that one can insert reality into the past and thus work backwards in time, however, one can without any doubt, insert there the possible, or rather, Zachsbergonz.
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