Thursday, October 24, 2013

The Problem of Identity

What you don't get is a part of the identity of what you DO get.
-Slavoj Zizek

9 comments:

  1. I see your nightstand! You cleaned it off, eh? ;-)

    So, what has you thinking about double negation? I'm not seeing the connection between the identity video and the Zizek clip.

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  2. The only objects missing are the IPad.... and the "mask".

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  3. CPAP mask?

    You call that a disaster area? Nah!

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  4. No, the mask which conceals my identity.

    And the Zizek post is merely the source of the quote concerning identity.... I'm actually a bit more focused, at the moment, as to how this relates to the Heideggerian concept of "being in the world"... that what you "don't" get with Platonic forms of "being" with which I am more familiar, is a "world".

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  5. btw - you can't see the dust, nor can you see that the lightbulb is burnt out... and has been for several months.

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  6. The influence of "mirror neurons" on the concept of "being in the world"... most recent posts here.

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  7. It's really the opposite of a negation of a negation... the opening up of a new world with new possibilities that comes with a double affirmation of being AND the world.

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  8. So does the nightstand reveal a part of your true identity? ...of the world you are in, that influences your identity?

    Ps I will post my table later today.

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