The Reality of the Virtual (2004)

Original title

Slavoj Žižek: The Reality of the Virtual

Directed by

Ben Wright

Genre

documentary film

Country

United Kingdom

Runtime

1h 11m

Rating

6.7 of 10 from 16 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

Slavoj Žižek gives a filmed lecture about how fictional or virtual things can have real world effects. He sits in front of a bookshelf and talks about examples from psychoanalysis, politics, and pop culture.

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What happens

The Reality of the Virtual is a 2004 documentary film lecture by Slovenian philosopher Slavoj Žižek. Recorded in a single day by Ben Wright, the film consists of seven long takes of Žižek seated in front of a bookshelf. The discourse concerns the concept of "real effects produced, generated, by something which does not yet fully exist, which is not yet fully actual", with numerous examples from psychoanalysis, politics, sociology, physics and popular culture. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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