Note by Slavoj Žižek on Substack
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Note by Slavoj Žižek on Substack
To be a “realist of a larger reality” is not just to dream of something different than what is, nor to be lost in the spectacle or the world of representations. Instead, it’s to see the scene presented to you as well as what created the scene, to see not just the Instagram picture but the camera by which it was taken, the person holding the camera,... See more
Rhyd Wildermuth • Realists of a Larger Reality — RITONA // A Beautiful Resistance
Stuart Evans added
Today, surrealism, our “super reality” according to artistic leader André Breton, is our coping mechanism. collective “fuck it.” Fighting absurdity with absurdity.
Victoria Buchanan • Vol.17: Victoria Buchanan: Surrealism, World Saving Luxury + Fractional Work
Keely Adler added
‘The reality principle’, Zupancic writes, is not some kind of natural way associated with how things are ... The reality principle itself is ideologically mediated; one could even claim that it constitutes the highest form of ideology, the ideology that presents itself as empirical fact (or biological, economic...) necessity (and that we tend to pe
... See moreMark Fisher • Capitalist Realism: Is there no alternative?
Reality is not as I see it, I know my current beliefs and frames are just a mirage my mind has created to keep me safe.
Wake Up Warrior
Matthew Stafford added
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“For the truth is,” wrote José Ortega y Gasset, “that life on the face of it is a chaos in which one finds oneself lost. The individual suspects as much but is terrified to encounter this frightening reality face to face, and so attempts to conceal it by drawing a curtain of fantasy over it, behind which he can make believe that everything is clear
... See moreChris Hedges • Empire of Illusion: The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle
“The more real you get the more unreal the world gets.”
― John Lennon
alex added
As fact grows stranger than fiction, we should embrace the surreal and try harder to imagine more outlandish fictions. We might begin by accepting that we are being lied to all the time, that most of what we hear and see is an illusion, misrepresentation, or performance—and that’s fine. Life has in many ways become a fiction, reality is vanishing u... See more
Dean Kissick • The Painted Protest, by Dean Kissick
Severin Matusek added
ideological thinking insists upon a ‘truer reality’, that is concealed behind the world of perceptible things.