cyclopeanstar (![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} cyclopeanstar) wrote,@ 2008-03-29 20:51:00 |
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welcome to the desert of the real
"...my spontaneous attitude towards the universe... it’s a very dark one. The first thesis would have been a kind of total vanity: there is nothing, basically. If you look at the universe, it’s one big void. But then how do things emerge? Here, I feel a kind of spontaneous affinity with quantum physics, where the idea there is that the universe is a void, but a kind of positively charged void. And then particular things appear when the balance of the void is disturbed. And I like this idea spontaneously very much, the fact that it’s not just nothing. Things are out there."
- Slavoj Zizek, in Zizek!
"...my spontaneous attitude towards the universe... it’s a very dark one. The first thesis would have been a kind of total vanity: there is nothing, basically. If you look at the universe, it’s one big void. But then how do things emerge? Here, I feel a kind of spontaneous affinity with quantum physics, where the idea there is that the universe is a void, but a kind of positively charged void. And then particular things appear when the balance of the void is disturbed. And I like this idea spontaneously very much, the fact that it’s not just nothing. Things are out there."
- Slavoj Zizek, in Zizek!
