#Philosophy
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An alliance of those who refuse to pretend the exit is already known
Host's closing reading: a politics whose starting assumption is that the situation is genuinely deadlocked and no existing tendency — liberal, left or right — has the resources to unlock it.
There is no future: from despair to avenir
Hope is deferral; you only act in despair. 'There is no future' — the Democratic 'party of the future' is Fukuyamaism; Bernie Sanders alone at Biden's inauguration was avenir.
Ideology as controlled hallucination — but socially
Reframing Anil Seth's cognitive theory as ideology critique: reality is a construction, but the feedback loop runs through the symbolic order, not an individual brain.
What if you can deceive all the people all the time?
Žižek inverts Lincoln: authentic mass awakenings are rare and usually end in catastrophe. What politics remains once the myth of the clear-eyed people falls?
Every epoch reinvents its Shakespeare
Shakespeare's greatness is his ontological incompleteness: each epoch legitimately re-constitutes Hamlet from its own position.
T.S. Eliot: a new work rewrites the whole past
Eliot's retroactive causation: a radically new artwork reorganizes the entire tradition that precedes it — retroactivity at the level of ontology.
Heidegger's historical horizon — and why QM goes further
Heidegger: reality is always disclosed within a historical horizon. Quantum physics asks what stands outside every such horizon — the Lacanian Real.
Paraconsistent logic as the lesson of quantum mechanics
Paraconsistent logic is the formal shape of a materialism adequate to QM: time, space and causality cease to hold without remainder.
The Holocaust: reality vs. the Real
The Real of the Holocaust is non-negotiable; its reality — the meaning installed in collective life — can still be rewritten by ideological shifts.
Feynman's 'nobody understands' taken seriously
Žižek reads Feynman literally: QM discloses a stratum whose structure is incompatible with the grammar of our reality.
Modernity begins after Renaissance (Pascal)
Modernity begins not with the Renaissance but with the Pascalian cut: a subjective interior facing a gray, infinite cosmos.
Subjectivity requires the impenetrable other
With Hegel, Freud and Lacan: a subject emerges only through encounter with another subjectivity whose interiority is a priori opaque.
Malebranche and the rational core of occasionalism
Malebranche's radical split between ideas and matter anticipates a modern insight: their interaction is always mediated by a third term.
We are back in Socratic times
Contemporary crises — ecology, AI, abortion — force a Socratic reflexive stance: before deciding what to do, ask what our concepts mean.
A missão da filosofia chinesa: imortalidade cultural
00:33:39 — A missão da filosofia: imortalidade da cultura chinesa
Índia busca a eternidade, China busca pela realidade
01:10:05 — Índia busca a eternidade, China busca pela realidade
Zongjiao: culto dos antepassados e ensino dos sábios
00:12:03 — Zongjiao: culto dos antepassados e ensino dos sábios
Pascal: alone with your thoughts and mortality
00:13:50 — Distraction as Flight from Loneliness
Attention as the purest form of generosity
00:22:14 — Attention as the Purest Form of Generosity
Genuine attention: clearing space, not forcing will
00:11:32 — Simone Weil on Attention as Waiting
Our problems stem from not being able to sit silently
00:06:14 — Historical Roots from Pascal to William James
Murdoch: at the moment of decision, it's done
00:30:03 — Murdoch: At the Moment of Decision, Most Action Has Already Happened
We become the tools of our tools
00:28:38 — We Become the Tools of Our Tools