
ZIZ010 Materialism and Theology (2007)
Slavoj Žižek - Collected Recordings
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The Ontological Incompleteness of Reality
In order for things to exist, they must constitute it by definition fully ontologically exist. Reality is the multiplicity of multiplicities which cannot be generated or constituted from or reduced to some form of ones as its elementary atomic constituents. The primordial opposition is not that of one and zero, but that of zero and multiplicities. If reality really exists out there, it has to be complete all the way down. Otherwise, we are dealing with a fiction which just hangs in the air.
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