Slavoj zizek on architecture and aesthetics pdf

The common definition of parallax is: the apparent displacement of an object, caused by a change in observational position that provides a new line of sight. When confronted with such a parallax gap, one should renounce all attempts to reduce one aspect to the other ; the task is, on the contrary, to conceive all possible positions as responses to a certain underlying deadlock or antagonism, as so many attempts to resolve this deadlock… and this already brings us to so-called postmodern architecture which, sometimes, seems to enact the notion of parallax in a directly-palpable way.

Think about Liebeskind or Gehry: their work often appears as a desperate attempt to combine two incompatible structuring principles within the same building, as if two principles are locked in a struggle for hegemony. Slavoj Zizek in Continental Philosophy. Edit this record. Mark as duplicate. Find it on Scholar. Request removal from index.

Revision history. Download options PhilArchive copy. Only published works are available at libraries. The Parallax View. Skip to content. Home Investigating Anthropologically. Here is what he says about the relationship between toilets and ideologies:.

Share this: Twitter Facebook. Like this: Like Loading This entry was posted in Uncategorized. Bookmark the permalink. Leave a Reply Cancel reply Enter your comment here Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in:. In his preface, Ernesto Laclau notes that Zizek wants to alter Hegel so as to eliminate the domination by Reason, and to graft Hegel to Lacan.

Google Scholar. There is a sense in which Zizek treats all culture as theatre of the absurd. This is very close to Nietzsche. Some theories of the sublime stress sheer joy and awe in response to beingness. Zizek, pp. Julian Pefanis and Morgan Thomas, trans.

In my own studies of the sublime, which emphasize a jolt of astonished awe and the crossing of a threshold of transcendence, I have characterized the following modes of the sublime: Nietzschean, ideational, BurkeanGothic, moral, religious, Romantic, Jungian, Sartrean-existential, counter, comic, ironic, mock, and the sublime of light and color.

The recent politicized models fall mostly under the ideational.