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
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
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)
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