Epistemological limitation defines the thing itself

00:13:59 — Epistemological limitation defines the thing itself

The core Žižekian move: the gap we thought was ours — our inability to know reality completely — is reframed as a feature of reality itself. Incompleteness is ontological, not epistemic. Against Einstein’s hidden-variable hope that there is a complete reality we merely fail to see, Žižek joins a lineage of contemporary quantum thinkers (Rovelli, Smolin, Adlam) who treat this reversal as the actual scandal of quantum mechanics.