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Book 2009.0

The Parallax View

Slavoj Žižek

Philosophy MIT press 9780262240512 Available

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Annotation: The Parallax View is Slavoj Žižek's most substantial theoretical work to appear in many years; Žižek himself describes it as his magnum opus. Parallax can be defined as the apparent displacement of an object, caused by a change in observational position. Žižek is interested in the "parallax gap" separating two points between which no synthesis or mediation is possible, linked by an "impossible short circuit" of levels that can never meet. From this consideration of parallax, Žižek begins a rehabilitation of dialectical materialism. Modes of parallax can be seen in different domains of today's theory, from the wave-particle duality in quantum physics to the parallax of the unconscious in Freudian psychoanalysis between interpretations of the formation of the unconscious and theories of drives. In The Parallax View, Žižek, with his usual astonishing erudition, focuses on three main modes of parallax: the ontological difference, the ultimate parallax that conditions our very access to reality; the scientific parallax, the irreducible gap between the phenomenal experience of reality and its scientific explanation, which reaches its apogee in today's brain sciences (according to which "nobody is home" in the skull, just stacks of brain meat—a condition Žižek calls "the unbearable lightness of being no one"); and the political parallax, the social antagonism that allows for no common ground. Between his discussions of these three modes, Žižek offers interludes that deal with more specific topics—including an ethical act in a novel by Henry James and anti-anti-Semitism. The Parallax View not only expands Žižek's Lacanian-Hegelian approach to new domains (notably cognitive brain sciences) but also provides the systematic exposition of the conceptual framework that underlies his entire work. Philosophical and theological analysis, detailed readings of literature, cinema, and music coexist with lively anecdotes and obscene jokes.

Identifier: 9780262240512

Status: Available

Journal Article 2000

‘I have a picture of it’: Ethnographic / ethnosemiotic explanation of visual descriptions

Imre Gráfik

In: Semiotica 2000, Issue 2024-03-04 00:00:00

Pages: 303-330

Semiotica DOI: 10.1515/semi.2000.128.3-4.303

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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.2000.128.3-4.303

The Parallax View

‘I have a picture of it’: Ethnographic / ethnosemiotic explanation of visual descriptions

<i> <b>De ridiculis</b> </i>

<i> <b>Genius loci</b> </i>

<i>Langage, </i>an actual partner to <i>discours </i>and <i>langue</i>

A field approach to word semantics

An early Hungarian hermetist-semiotician: János Molnár

Can a philosopher be without roots? A comparative study of the philosophies of John Dewey and George Santayana

Contents/Sommaire Volume 128 (2000)

Cultural borders and creation of culture

Ego meets Alter: The meaning of otherness in cultural semiotics

Gesture jokes in Hungary

History, mentalities, justifications: The case of post-war Romanian memoirs

Illness as social indicator: Hysteria in Schnitzler and Freud

Narrative structures in culture

Peirce’s three types of reasoning in a contemporary perspective

Preface: For Vilmos Voigt

Remembering the collective memory of Maurice Halbwachs

Semiosis and semiosics vs. semiotics

Sonstiges

The ‘human behavior complex’ and the compulsion of communication: Key factors of human evolution

The mask of maidenhood: Andersen’s ‘The Little Mermaid’

The music of the spheres

The Reagan Effect: Self-presentation in humans and computers

The site of interpretation

Towards the semiotics of translation

Two cultural models: The pyramid and the emblem

Two notorious gentlemen: Haider and Le Pen. Comparing their political discourse — A semiological viewpoint

Vladimir Soloviev: Pre- or anti-semiotician?

Waco Wackos! The emergence of American social consciousness in the jokes surrounding the events at Waco, Texas

Jokes, narrative, and pragmatics

How to kill jokes cognitively? The meaning structure of jokes

“YOU MUST BE JOKING”: A SOCIOSEMIOTIC ANALYSIS OF ‘ETHIOPIAN’ JOKES

On Signs

Toward a poetics of comic narratives: Notes on the semiotic structure of jokes

“Oh! That’s a pun and I didn't mean it”

A Note on the Distribution of Discourse

A Quantitative Analysis of Diachronic Patterns in Some Narratives of Poe

Dialogic Incongruities in the Theater of the Absurd

Greeting a Stranger: Some Commonly Used Nonverbal Signals of Aversiveness

Jokes, Theories, Anthropology

Myth — Name — Culture

Publications Received

Review Article

The Eye of the Beholder: On the Semiotic Status of Paranarratives

Review Article

THE RIGHT TO MAKE INTERPRETATIONS ABOUT PROFESSIONAL STRATIFICATION

TWO REALMS AND A JOKE: BISOCIATION THEORIES OF JOKING