In Revolutionary Terror, this exchange breaks down, the subject is exposed to the destructive abstract negativity (embodied in the State) which deprives it even of its biological substance (of life itself), without giving anything in return - death is here utterly meaningless, the most cold-blooded and meaningless death of all, with no more significance than cleaving a head of cabbage or swallowing a draught of water, without even surviving as a noble memory in the minds of friends and family. How, then, does this pure negativity or loss magically turn into positivity? What do we get when we get nothing in exchange? There is only one consistent answer: this nothingness itself. When there is no filling of the negation, when we are forced to confront the power of negativity in its naked purity and are swallowed by it, the only way to go on is to realize that this negativity is the very core of our being, that the subject is the void of negativity. Slavoj Zizek Less Than Nothing
Posted on: Mon, 12 Jan 2015 21:02:57 +0000
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