ZIZ015 The Return to Hegel (2009)
Slavoj Žižek - Collected Recordings
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The Dalesian Pure Repetition
A truly great pianist must know how to play so that somehow this absent, but precisely the virtual absent point of reference is evoked. The art is you repeat exactly the same lines, but in such a way that what changes is not what you hear, but what you don't hear. You should play it once so that this sample, don't ask me how, resonates in it, the other time that it doesn't resonate in it. And this is the true challenge to the piano player, this would be the Dalesian pure repetition. Nothing changes the level of reality, by reality as simply means the actual notes to be played. What changes is just the virtual background,
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