The Parallax of Ontology

Here's Cameron's comment on Zizek's video (below).

"The concept Parallax is asserted when we renounce all attempts to enact a “higher synthesis" (transcend and include) of opposites and hold to the inherent “tension” between contradictory forces without any proper resolution at the heart of reality itself as the condition of possibility of real change, dynamism or substantive transformation.

"In the beginning, we are not-whole or at one with everything. It is not that Spirit was first whole, then lost itself in manifestation, and then finds itself again in a return to wholeness where All is One. The only Spirit that is available to us comes by getting rid of the idea of being whole to begin with and embracing the “universality of struggle” where it is by identifying with what is abject (traumatic, monstrous, catastrophic) within the given political and economic system and amplifying this paradoxical non-coincidence to the point of maximal antagonism that we participate in the further evolution of consciousness in the world-historical process…

"In the academy, the concept of Parallax can be detected in Kant's antinomies, as well as in the incommensurability of various debates between eliminative science and historically dialectical materialists, and it can be identified in the struggles for the sovereignty of a scientific worldview over, for example, life forms of religions.

"Within German Idealism and contemporary ontology parallax is an illuminating figure of thought and explanation, especially in theoretical philosophy. As multifaceted as this figure of thought is, it contradicts both a naive epistemological realism, widespread in the academic world of today, and an eliminative scientism, namely in rejecting the belief in one basic structure of reality in which subject and object can harmoniously be put to rest. Parallax stands in opposition to this belief that deep down everything is alright."