PREVIEW - Žižek's System: The Transcendental Ontological Parallax

<p><a href="https://www.patreon.com/zizekandsoon/posts/zizeks-system-165614524?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferer">LISTEN TO THE FULL EPISODE HERE!</a></p><p>Alright, welcome back to Žižek &amp; So On. This is another <a href="https://www.patreon.com/zizekandsoon/posts/zizeks-system-165614524?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferer">PATREON EPISODE</a> in our ongoing series on the systematic aspects of Žižek’s thought &amp; we’re taking a look at Adrian Johnston’s critique of Slavoj Žižek.</p><p>Can you have a materialism without matter? Does a genuine dialectical materialism need a detour through theology and the mystical &quot;Night of the World&quot;? What happens when you try to ground the emergence of subjectivity in the bizarre realities of quantum physics?</p><p>Along the way we get into the transcendental ontological parallax, Lenin’s <em>Materialism and Empiriocriticism</em>, the crisis of the disappearing electron, Penrose&#39;s microtubules, and why kicking away the theological ladder might be harder than it looks.</p><p>Up next we move from the quantum void to the delegation of enjoyment with Robert Pfaller on Interpassivity.</p><p><a href="https://www.patreon.com/zizekandsoon" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferer">To follow along with all the episodes in this series and to get access to all our interviews, patreon episodes, and SHORT SESSIONS support us here!</a></p><p>See you in Paris or the Urgrund, </p><p>Ž&amp;…</p>