https://scholion.thluiz.com/tags/zizek-quantum-history/Recent content in Zizek-Quantum-History on ScholionHugo -- gohugo.iopt-BR© 2026Wed, 27 May 2026 21:26:22 +0100https://scholion.thluiz.com/notes/zizek-three-nightmares-modern-world/Fri, 24 Apr 2026 18:49:09 +0100https://scholion.thluiz.com/notes/zizek-three-nightmares-modern-world/Mekong scam compounds, neo-slavery with organ-harvesting quotas, and Libyan torture-ransom camps — the industrial horrors Žižek wants at the front of Western attention.https://scholion.thluiz.com/notes/alliance-refuse-to-pretend-exit-known/Thu, 23 Apr 2026 00:05:16 +0100https://scholion.thluiz.com/notes/alliance-refuse-to-pretend-exit-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.https://scholion.thluiz.com/notes/neo-slavery-dark-side-digital-capitalism/Thu, 23 Apr 2026 00:04:16 +0100https://scholion.thluiz.com/notes/neo-slavery-dark-side-digital-capitalism/Tens of thousands enslaved in Mekong scam compounds with organ-harvesting for quota failures; concentration camps in southern Libya running weekly torture-ransom videos.https://scholion.thluiz.com/notes/left-operational-lessons-trump-singapore/Thu, 23 Apr 2026 00:03:16 +0100https://scholion.thluiz.com/notes/left-operational-lessons-trump-singapore/Trump won by stating his extreme position; Mamdani’s ‘radicalism’ is old moderate social democracy; Switzerland and Singapore model organic unity ‘in a good sense’.https://scholion.thluiz.com/notes/there-is-no-future-despair-to-avenir/Thu, 23 Apr 2026 00:02:16 +0100https://scholion.thluiz.com/notes/there-is-no-future-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.https://scholion.thluiz.com/notes/stalinism-luxemburg-frankfurt-blind-spot/Thu, 23 Apr 2026 00:01:16 +0100https://scholion.thluiz.com/notes/stalinism-luxemburg-frankfurt-blind-spot/Luxemburg’s ‘socialism or barbarism’ is wrong because Stalinism was both at once — a lesson the Frankfurt School, fixated on Western fascism, never processed.https://scholion.thluiz.com/notes/no-hologram-for-the-present/Thu, 23 Apr 2026 00:00:16 +0100https://scholion.thluiz.com/notes/no-hologram-for-the-present/Today we lack the kind of totalizing hologram that capitalism retroactively imposed on all prior history once it contingently emerged. We are in the interval.https://scholion.thluiz.com/notes/ideology-as-controlled-hallucination-socially/Wed, 22 Apr 2026 23:59:16 +0100https://scholion.thluiz.com/notes/ideology-as-controlled-hallucination-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.https://scholion.thluiz.com/notes/trump-symptom-of-dead-welfare-center/Wed, 22 Apr 2026 23:58:16 +0100https://scholion.thluiz.com/notes/trump-symptom-of-dead-welfare-center/Trump is real and dangerous but not the primary enemy. He is a symptom of the democratic welfare-state center that lost its ideological content and instinct for self-preservation.https://scholion.thluiz.com/notes/marx-balzac-intelligent-conservatives/Wed, 22 Apr 2026 23:57:16 +0100https://scholion.thluiz.com/notes/marx-balzac-intelligent-conservatives/Žižek’s dreamed coalition: renewed left plus intelligent — not reactionary — conservatives, the Balzac type who see the deadlocks and know there is no easy way out.https://scholion.thluiz.com/notes/us-tripartite-political-landscape/Wed, 22 Apr 2026 23:56:16 +0100https://scholion.thluiz.com/notes/us-tripartite-political-landscape/The coming American contest is three-sided: absorbed Republican-Trumpians, old-center Democrats, and a democratic-socialist current deciding whether to split.https://scholion.thluiz.com/notes/trump-opened-a-space-left-failed-to-open/Wed, 22 Apr 2026 23:55:16 +0100https://scholion.thluiz.com/notes/trump-opened-a-space-left-failed-to-open/Žižek grants that Trump did what the anti-globalization left tried and failed to do: disrupted global capitalism as we knew it, opening a new space.https://scholion.thluiz.com/notes/what-if-you-can-deceive-all-the-people/Wed, 22 Apr 2026 23:54:16 +0100https://scholion.thluiz.com/notes/what-if-you-can-deceive-all-the-people/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?https://scholion.thluiz.com/notes/wang-huning-america-against-america/Wed, 22 Apr 2026 23:53:16 +0100https://scholion.thluiz.com/notes/wang-huning-america-against-america/Wang Huning, senior CCP ideologist: the soft-fascist question of preserving capitalism’s productive energy while suppressing the social disintegration it causes.https://scholion.thluiz.com/notes/capitalism-works-but-must-be-controlled/Wed, 22 Apr 2026 23:52:16 +0100https://scholion.thluiz.com/notes/capitalism-works-but-must-be-controlled/Denying that capitalism organizes productive activity is a fantasy; but free markets exist only when a strong state breaks the monopolies capitalism generates.https://scholion.thluiz.com/notes/does-the-left-need-a-lee-kuan-yew/Wed, 22 Apr 2026 23:51:16 +0100https://scholion.thluiz.com/notes/does-the-left-need-a-lee-kuan-yew/Žižek backs Sloterdijk’s prediction that Lee Kuan Yew will be the figure of this era remembered in 100 years — the left needs comparable social cohesion.https://scholion.thluiz.com/notes/war-communism-obligatory-cooperation/Wed, 22 Apr 2026 23:50:16 +0100https://scholion.thluiz.com/notes/war-communism-obligatory-cooperation/Against both voluntaristic cooperation and world government: ‘war communism’ as enforced coordination for the emergency state already arriving.https://scholion.thluiz.com/notes/every-epoch-reinvents-its-shakespeare/Wed, 22 Apr 2026 23:49:16 +0100https://scholion.thluiz.com/notes/every-epoch-reinvents-its-shakespeare/Shakespeare’s greatness is his ontological incompleteness: each epoch legitimately re-constitutes Hamlet from its own position.https://scholion.thluiz.com/notes/ts-eliot-new-work-rewrites-the-past/Wed, 22 Apr 2026 23:48:16 +0100https://scholion.thluiz.com/notes/ts-eliot-new-work-rewrites-the-past/Eliot’s retroactive causation: a radically new artwork reorganizes the entire tradition that precedes it — retroactivity at the level of ontology.https://scholion.thluiz.com/notes/marxs-communism-capitalism-without-capital/Wed, 22 Apr 2026 23:47:16 +0100https://scholion.thluiz.com/notes/marxs-communism-capitalism-without-capital/Marx’s communism kept capitalism’s engine of ceaseless expanded reproduction while removing only surplus value — ecologically incoherent.https://scholion.thluiz.com/notes/heidegger-historical-horizon-qm-beyond/Wed, 22 Apr 2026 23:46:16 +0100https://scholion.thluiz.com/notes/heidegger-historical-horizon-qm-beyond/Heidegger: reality is always disclosed within a historical horizon. Quantum physics asks what stands outside every such horizon — the Lacanian Real.https://scholion.thluiz.com/notes/paraconsistent-logic-lesson-of-qm/Wed, 22 Apr 2026 23:45:16 +0100https://scholion.thluiz.com/notes/paraconsistent-logic-lesson-of-qm/Paraconsistent logic is the formal shape of a materialism adequate to QM: time, space and causality cease to hold without remainder.https://scholion.thluiz.com/notes/holocaust-reality-vs-the-real/Wed, 22 Apr 2026 23:44:16 +0100https://scholion.thluiz.com/notes/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.https://scholion.thluiz.com/notes/feynman-nobody-understands-quantum-physics/Wed, 22 Apr 2026 23:43:16 +0100https://scholion.thluiz.com/notes/feynman-nobody-understands-quantum-physics/Žižek reads Feynman literally: QM discloses a stratum whose structure is incompatible with the grammar of our reality.https://scholion.thluiz.com/notes/modernity-begins-after-renaissance-pascal/Wed, 22 Apr 2026 23:42:16 +0100https://scholion.thluiz.com/notes/modernity-begins-after-renaissance-pascal/Modernity begins not with the Renaissance but with the Pascalian cut: a subjective interior facing a gray, infinite cosmos.https://scholion.thluiz.com/notes/subjectivity-requires-the-impenetrable-other/Wed, 22 Apr 2026 23:41:16 +0100https://scholion.thluiz.com/notes/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.https://scholion.thluiz.com/notes/malebranche-core-of-occasionalism/Wed, 22 Apr 2026 23:40:16 +0100https://scholion.thluiz.com/notes/malebranche-core-of-occasionalism/Malebranche’s radical split between ideas and matter anticipates a modern insight: their interaction is always mediated by a third term.https://scholion.thluiz.com/notes/epistemological-limitation-defines-the-thing/Wed, 22 Apr 2026 23:39:16 +0100https://scholion.thluiz.com/notes/epistemological-limitation-defines-the-thing/Žižek’s core inversion: quantum incompleteness is not a gap in our knowledge of reality but a feature of reality itself.https://scholion.thluiz.com/notes/back-in-socratic-times/Wed, 22 Apr 2026 23:38:16 +0100https://scholion.thluiz.com/notes/back-in-socratic-times/Contemporary crises — ecology, AI, abortion — force a Socratic reflexive stance: before deciding what to do, ask what our concepts mean.https://scholion.thluiz.com/notes/nature-is-a-dirty-bitch-of-a-mother/Wed, 22 Apr 2026 23:37:16 +0100https://scholion.thluiz.com/notes/nature-is-a-dirty-bitch-of-a-mother/Žižek contra deep ecology: nature is not a homeostatic mother but the source of the very catastrophes that buried the oil and coal we now burn.