{"id":9532,"date":"2025-08-01T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-08-01T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/?p=9532"},"modified":"2025-05-04T20:26:37","modified_gmt":"2025-05-04T20:26:37","slug":"category-based-nested-forms-are-used-to-diagram-zizeks-proposal-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/?p=9532","title":{"rendered":"Looking at Slavoj Zizek&#8217;s Book (2024) &#8220;Christian Atheism&#8221; (Part 33 of 33)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>0339 So, why compare the two interscopes?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Well, there are two Relativist Ones, one belonging to Zizek&#8217;s configuration and one contained in the post-truth condition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Slide107.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Slide107.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-9533\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Slide107.png 600w, https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Slide107-300x200.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>That is a tad confusing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Plus, it seems to me that&nbsp;<em>the following association of Lacan&#8217;s terminology<\/em>&nbsp;<em>with<\/em>&nbsp;<em>open slots of the perspective level&nbsp;<\/em>applies to both interscopes.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Slide108.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Slide108.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-9534\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Slide108.png 600w, https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Slide108-300x200.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>All these items may be regarded as&nbsp;<em>writ small<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Plus, the pattern repeats within Zizek&#8217;s interscope.&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>Jouissance<sub>1<\/sub>&nbsp;writ large<\/em>&nbsp;coincides with&nbsp;<em>the virtual nested form in firstness<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Similarly,&nbsp;<em>objet a<sub>2c(2a)<\/sub><\/em>&nbsp;<em>writ large<\/em>&nbsp;matches&nbsp;<em>the actualities<sub>2<\/sub>&nbsp;on the perspective<sub>c<\/sub>&nbsp;and content<sub>a<\/sub>&nbsp;levels<\/em>.&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>The<\/em>&nbsp;<em>petit objet a writ large<\/em>&nbsp;matches&nbsp;<em>the situation-level actuality<sub>2b<\/sub><\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Uh, does that also apply to&nbsp;<em>the interscope for the post-truth condition?<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If it does, then there are two Relativist Ones<sub>3c<\/sub>, one corresponds to&nbsp;<em>a little Big Other<sub>3c(2b<\/sub><\/em><sub>)<\/sub>&nbsp;(in Zizek&#8217;s configuration as a psychometric valuation<sub>2b<\/sub>) and one corresponds to&nbsp;<em>a big Big Other<sub>3c<\/sub><\/em>&nbsp;(for the interscope for the post-truth condition).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>0340 Okay, the&nbsp;<em>little Relativist Big Other<sub>3c(2b)<\/sub><\/em>&nbsp;dwells within&nbsp;<em>the big Relativist Big Other<sub>2b<\/sub>.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What about Christian atheism?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Zizek&#8217;s configuration<\/em>&nbsp;resides within&nbsp;<em>the slot for psychometric valuation<sub>2b<\/sub><\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Does Zizek&#8217;s Christian atheism<sub>3c(2b)<\/sub>&nbsp;deny the divinity of the big Big Other<sub>3c<\/sub>?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If it does, then&nbsp;<em>the following comparison<\/em>&nbsp;offers another reason why&nbsp;<em>modern politics<\/em>&nbsp;is&nbsp;<em>immanently theological<\/em>&nbsp;and supports Zizek&#8217;s concluding chapter, arguing that the post-modern West should not disregard psychoanalysis, simply because it questions postmodern scientific-sounding capitalist and socialist valuations<sub>2b<\/sub>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Slide109.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Slide109.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-9535\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Slide109.png 600w, https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Slide109-300x200.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>0341 So&#8230; uh&#8230;. why does Zizek propose Christian atheism<sub>3c(2b)<\/sub>?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Isn&#8217;t Slavoj Zizek an expert<sub>2b<\/sub>&nbsp;operating on the formalized knowledges of Lacanian psychoanalysis, Hegelian philosophy and Marxist materialism<sub>1b<\/sub>?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Excuse me while I scribble a note saying, &#8220;Of course, he sees the light&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>0342 I want to note, if the big Relativist One<sub>3c<\/sub>&nbsp;is divine, as preached by the banquet dinner speaker,&nbsp;<em>B<\/em>aelzeb<em>ob<\/em>&nbsp;<em>Jones,<\/em>speaking,&nbsp;<em>way back when,<\/em>&nbsp;to the CPP on the evening when I was conceived, then psychoanalysis should be disregarded, because &#8220;wealth&#8221; and &#8220;power&#8221; are two distinct and separate entities<sub>2c<\/sub>, just like&nbsp;<em>photons as waves<\/em>&nbsp;and&#8230; um&#8230;&nbsp;<em>photons as particles<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;&#8230; yeah, the light.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Photons as particles<sub>1b(2b)<\/sub>&nbsp;<\/em>and&nbsp;<em>photons as waves<sub>1b(2b)<\/sub><\/em>&nbsp;produce&nbsp;<em>distinct and separate measurements<sub>2b(2b)<\/sub>,<\/em>&nbsp;as far&nbsp;<em>quantum-physics apparatuses<sub>3b(2b)<\/sub><\/em>&nbsp;are concerned.&nbsp;&nbsp;Data<sub>1c(2b)<\/sub>&nbsp;is the potential<sub>1c(2b)<\/sub>&nbsp;of measurements<sub>2b(2b)<\/sub>.&nbsp;&nbsp;And, measurements<sub>2b(2b)<\/sub>&nbsp;virtually situate a model standing in the place of the noumenon<sub>2a(2b)<\/sub>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Slide110.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Slide110.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-9536\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Slide110.png 600w, https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Slide110-300x200.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Consequently,&nbsp;<em>an irreconcilable distinction between particle and wave<sub>2b<\/sub><\/em>&nbsp;&nbsp;constitutes&nbsp;<em>an opportunity<sub>1c<\/sub><\/em>&nbsp;that supports the divinity of&nbsp;<em>the big Relativist One of the Physics of the Quantum Universe<sub>3c<\/sub><\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Slide111.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Slide111.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-9537\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Slide111.png 600w, https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Slide111-300x200.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Fortunately, all hell broke loose before Dr. Jones finished his address.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>0342 The logics of thirdness are exclusion, complement and alignment.&nbsp;&nbsp;Here the little and the big normal contexts align, but the little cannot replace the big.&nbsp;&nbsp;Nonetheless, the same term is used for both perspective-level normal contexts, even though the two normal contexts differ.&nbsp;&nbsp;Both are Relativist Ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>0343 The logics of secondness are those of contradiction and non-contradiction.&nbsp;&nbsp;If the two actualities of {capital, acquisition [wealth and power] social, exercise of order}<sub>2c(2b)&nbsp;<\/sub>&nbsp;and psychometric valuation<sub>2b<\/sub>&nbsp;do not contradict, then I can regard one as an example of the other&#8230; or maybe&#8230; the little one pays tribute to the big one.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>0344 The logics of firstness are inclusion.&nbsp;&nbsp;Firstness allows contradictions.&nbsp;&nbsp;Here, the same principle noted above applies.&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>A synthetic truth<sub>1c(2b)<\/sub>&nbsp;supporting a situation-level little Relativist one<sub>3c(2b)<\/sub><\/em>&nbsp;offers&nbsp;<em>opportunity<sub>1c<\/sub><\/em>&nbsp;for&nbsp;<em>a perspective-level big Relativist one<sub>3c<\/sub><\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In Zizek&#8217;s book, a synthetic truth<sub>1c(2b)<\/sub>&nbsp;undergirds an intellectual configuration of the dyad, {capital, acquisition [wealth and power] social, exercise of order}<sub>2c(2b)<\/sub>&nbsp;for Zizek&#8217;s little Relativist One<sub>3c(2b)<\/sub>.&nbsp;&nbsp;Zizek&#8217;s psychometric valuation<sub>2b<\/sub>&nbsp;may contextualized as a possible opportunity<sub>1c<\/sub>&nbsp;by a post-truth big Relativist One<sub>3c<\/sub>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Surely, opportunity<sub>1c<\/sub>&nbsp;is potentiated by the little Relativist one<sub>3c(2b)<\/sub>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But, what opportunity<sub>1c<\/sub>&nbsp;is potentiated by Christ<sub>3c(2b)<\/sub>?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Oh, I must not forget, Zizek calls for psychoanalysis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So, Christ<sub>3c(2b)<\/sub>&nbsp;must be an intervention.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>0345&nbsp;<em>The perspective-level nested form in Zizek&#8217;s configuration&nbsp;<\/em>neatly fits into&nbsp;<em>the slot for psychometric valuations<sub>2b<\/sub>on the situation-level of the post-truth interscope.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Does this explain&nbsp;<em>why the names of post-truth levels should be totally juiced up?<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>0346 Okay,&nbsp;<em>the entire interscope for Zizek&#8217;s configuration<\/em>&nbsp;resides in&nbsp;<em>the slot for psychometric valuations<sub>2b<\/sub>&nbsp;for the post-truth interscope.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>This remarkable finding<\/em>&nbsp;adds value to&nbsp;<em>Zizek&#8217;s argument<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Zizek&#8217;s&nbsp;<em>Christian atheism<\/em>&nbsp;is designed to&nbsp;<em>challenge current psychometric valuations<sub>2b<\/sub><\/em>&nbsp;arising from&nbsp;<em>the potential of &#8216;a postmodern formalization of knowledge&#8217;<sub>1b<\/sub><\/em>&nbsp;within&nbsp;<em>the normal context of a stylistic union of capitalist and socialist expertise<sub>3b<\/sub><\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Christian atheism<sub>3c(2b)<\/sub>&nbsp;can substitute for the little Relativist One<sub>3c(2b)<\/sub>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But, what about the union between the big Relativist One<sub>3c<\/sub>&nbsp;and the little Relativist One<sub>3c(2b)<\/sub>?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Would some say&#8230; &#8220;the&nbsp;<em>unholy<\/em>&nbsp;union&#8221;?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>0347 See Razie Mah&#8217;s blog for February 11, 2023 for that one.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This blog serves as&nbsp;<em>the first exercise<\/em>&nbsp;for exploring&nbsp;<em>the utility these arguments<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>First, associate&nbsp;<em>features of the music video<\/em>&nbsp;to elements in&nbsp;<em>Zizek&#8217;s configuration<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My hint is that the dyad, {money and political influence [pays for] the Body Shop} associates to the imaginary actuality, {raw materials [construct] specified product}<sub>2a(2b)<\/sub>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The rest is left to the exercise.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Second, place&nbsp;<em>the first step<\/em>&nbsp;into&nbsp;<em>the slot for psychometric valuations<sub>2b<\/sub><\/em>&nbsp;in order to explain&nbsp;<em>why this music video is produced and advertised by American corporate media<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>0348 Do&nbsp;<em>the producers and promulgators of this video<\/em>&nbsp;want to influence what&nbsp;<em>the white woman has to say?<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Write your essay and send to raziemah@reagan.com with written permission for publication on Razie Mah&#8217;s blog.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>0349&nbsp;<em>This first exercise<\/em>&nbsp;reveals&nbsp;<em>the comedy of locating Zizek&#8217;s configuration in the slot for psychometric valuations in the post-truth condition<\/em>.&nbsp;&nbsp;It also reveals&nbsp;<em>the tragedy<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Consider&nbsp;<em>the tragic photon<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In order to reveal itself as either a wave or a particle, it must be annihilated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Is that too high a price to pay?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I guess not, because a photon is neither living nor dead.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>0350 Take a look at the preceding interscope.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On the obscene level, no-one cares what the photon thinks, because it is doomed to annihilation in the process of determining whether it &#8220;says&#8221; that it is a particle or a wave.&nbsp;&nbsp;How obscene is that?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On the undead level, experts in physics<sub>3b<\/sub>&nbsp;operate the apparatus<sub>3b(2b)<\/sub>&nbsp;that converts&nbsp;<em>what the photon says<sub>2a<\/sub><\/em>&nbsp;into measurements<sub>2b(2b)<\/sub>, that support an orderly model<sub>2c(2b)<\/sub>.&nbsp;&nbsp;The model<sub>2c(2b)<\/sub>&nbsp;asserts that the photon will say, &#8220;I am a particle composed of superimposed states and waves&#8221;<sub>2a(2b)<\/sub>&#8220;.&nbsp;&nbsp;In other words, the measured photon<sub>2b(2b)<\/sub>&nbsp;says&nbsp;<em>what the experts<sub>3b<\/sub>&nbsp;predict that it will say<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>0351 Does this demonstrate&nbsp;<em>the potential of &#8216;formalized knowledge&#8217;<sub>1b<\/sub>?<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Formalized knowledge<sub>1b<\/sub><\/em>&nbsp;makes&nbsp;<em>the annihilation of the subject<sub>2b(2b)<\/sub><\/em>&nbsp;possible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The subject<sub>2a(2b)<\/sub>&#8216;s content-level autonomy converts into a situation-level measurement<sub>2b(2b)<\/sub>&nbsp;that supports a model<sub>2c(2b)<\/sub>that offers an opportunity<sub>1c<\/sub>&nbsp;for an empirio-normative judgment<sub>2c<\/sub>&nbsp;to stand for&nbsp;<em>what people think and say<sub>2a<\/sub>&nbsp;concerning the soon-to-be annihilated subject<sub>2a(2b)<\/sub>.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>0352 On the sacred level, the One Physicist<sub>2c<\/sub>&nbsp;formulates&nbsp;<em>a judgment<sub>2b<\/sub><\/em>&nbsp;weighing&nbsp;<em>the intelligibility of what the experts report<sub>2b<\/sub>&nbsp;<\/em>and&nbsp;<em>the universality of what photons are telling the experts<sub>2a<\/sub><\/em>.&nbsp;&nbsp;This judgment reveals to&nbsp;<em>human reason<sub>3a(1a)<\/sub><\/em>that&nbsp;<em>it<sub>1b<\/sub><\/em>&nbsp;does not matter&nbsp;<em>what photons think<sub>2a<\/sub><\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Isn&#8217;t that obscene?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Indeed,&nbsp;<em>reason<sub>3a(1a)<\/sub>,<\/em>&nbsp;defined as&nbsp;<em>&#8220;the intellect<sub>3a<\/sub>&nbsp;operating on the will<sub>1a<\/sub>&#8220;,<\/em>&nbsp;is obscene.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Where the hell is truth<sub>1a<\/sub>?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>0353 Isn&#8217;t that&nbsp;<em>what Zizek is interested in?<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Isn&#8217;t that what&nbsp;<em>Christian atheism<\/em>&nbsp;is supposed to deliver?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>0354 So concludes&nbsp;<em>my independent approach<\/em>&nbsp;to&nbsp;<em>what Zizek argues for<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I end with a note on nomenclature.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lacan is very clever in his terminology.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So is Zizek.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the following picture on nomenclature, Lacan&#8217;s column applies to&nbsp;<em>the entire interscope of Zizek&#8217;s configuration<\/em>&nbsp;and Zizek&#8217;s<em>&nbsp;<\/em>&#8220;juiced up&#8221; column applies to&nbsp;<em>the entire post-truth interscope<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Slide112.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Slide112.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-9538\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Slide112.png 600w, https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Slide112-300x200.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Perhaps, these columns intimate&nbsp;<em>future directions of inquiry<\/em>&nbsp;during these&nbsp;<em>crazy times,&nbsp;<\/em>belonging to&nbsp;<em>the Fourth Battle of the Enlightenment Gods<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>0355 I thank Slavoj Zizek for a book that is worthy of examination.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>0339 So, why compare the two interscopes? Well, there are two Relativist Ones, one belonging to Zizek&#8217;s configuration and one contained in the post-truth condition. That is a tad confusing. 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