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The [[concept ]] of disparity has long been a topic of [[obsession ]] and argument for [[philosophers ]] but [[Slavoj Žižek ]] would argue that what disparity and negativity could mean, might mean and should mean for us and our lives has never been more hotly debated. Disparities explores contemporary ‘negative’ philosophies from Catherine Malabou’s plasticity, Julia Kristeva’s abjection and Robert Pippin’s [[self]]-[[consciousness]] to the God of [[negative]] [[theology]], new realisms and post-[[humanism]] and draws a radical line under [[them]]. Instead of establishing a dialogue with these [[other]] [[ideas]] of disparity, Slavoj Žižek wants to establish a definite departure, a totally different [[idea]] of disparity based on an imaginative [[dialectical]] [[materialism]]. This [[notion]] of rupturing what has gone before is based on a provocative [[reading]] of how philosophers can, if they’re honest, engage with each other. Slavoj Žižek borrows [[Alain]] Badiou’s notion that a [[true]] idea is the one that [[divides]]. Radically departing from previous formulations of negativity and disparity, Žižek employs a new kind of negativity: namely positing that when a [[philosopher]] deals with [[another]] philosopher, his or her stance is never one of dialogue, but one of [[division]], of drawing a line that separates [[truth]] from [[falsity]]. <poem>INTRODUCTION: IS HEGEL DEAD - OR ARE WE DEAD (IN THE EYES OF HEGEL)?When the Kraken WakesA Report from the Trenches of Dialectical Materialism I THE DISPARITY OF TRUTH: SUBJECT, OBJECT, AND THE REST1. FROM HUMAN TO POSTHUMAN AND BACK TO INHUMAN: THE PERSISTENCE OF ONTOLOGICAL DIFFERENCEAspects of DisparityAgainst the Univocity of [[Being]]Posthuman, Transhuman, InhumanHyperobjects in the Age of Anthropocene[[Biology]] or Quantum [[Physics]]? 2. OBJECTS, OBJECTS AND THE SUBJECTRe-enchanting [[Nature]]? No, Thanks!A Detour: [[Ideology]] in PluriverseOn a [[Subject]] Which Is Not an [[Object]][[Resistance]], Stasis, [[Repetition]]Speculative Judgment[[The Subject]]'s Epigenesis 3. SELF-CONSCIOUSNESS, WHICH SELF-CONSCIOUSNESS? AGAINST THE RENORMALIZATION OF HEGELIn [[Defense]] of [[Hegel]]'s [[Madness]]The Immediacy of MediationThe Stick in Itself, for Us, for Itself[[Action]] and [[Responsibility]][[Recollection]], Forgiveness, ReconciliationHealing the Wound[[Self-consciousness]] = [[Freedom]] = [[Reason]]Reflexivity of the [[Unconscious]] II THE DISPARITY OF BEAUTY: THE UGLY, THE ABJECT, AND THE MINIMAL DIFFERENCE4. ART AFTER HEGEL, HEGEL AFTER THE END OF ARTWith Hegel Against HegelThe Ugly [[Gaze]]From the [[Sublime]] to the MonstrousHegel's Path towards the NonfigurativeBetween Auschwitz and Telenovelas 5. VERSIONS OF ABJECT: UGLY, CREEPY, DISGUSTINGVarieties of [[Disavowal]][[Traversing]] Abjection“MOOR EEFFOC”From Abjective to CreepyMamatschi!Eisler's Sinthoms 6. WHEN NOTHING CHANGES: TWO SCENES OF SUBJECTIVE DESTITUTIONThe Lesson of [[Psychoanalysis]][[Music]] as a [[Sign]] of [[Love]]A Failed [[Betrayal]][[Scene]] from a Happy [[Life]] III THE DISPARITY OF THE GOOD: TOWARDS A MATERIALIST NEGATIVE THEOLOGY7. TRIBULATIONS OF A WOMAN-HYENA: AUTHORITY, COSTUME, AND FRIENDSHIPWhy [[Heidegger]] Should Not Be CriminalizedThe [[Birth]] of [[Fascism]] out of the Spirit of BeautyDon Carlos between Auhthority and [[Friendship]][[Stalin]] as Anti-[[Master]]Schiller versus HegelThe Self-Debased [[Authority]] 8. IS GOD DEAD, UNCONSCIOUS, EVIL, IMPOTENT, STUPID OR JUST COUNTERFACTUAL?On Divine InexistenceCounterfactualsRetroactivity, Omnipotence, and [[Impotence]]The Twelfth Camel as One of the Names of GodA Truth That Arises out of a LieThe Divine [[Death]]-[[Drive]]The Deposed God 9. JECT OR SCEND? FROM THE TRAUMATIZED SUBJECT TO SUBJECT AS TRAUMAThe [[Parallax]] of Drive and [[Desire]]Immortality as Death in LifeThe Troubles with [[Finitude]]Materialism or Agnosticism?A Comical Conclusion CONCLUSION: THE COURAGE OF HOPELESSNESSThe Millenarian “Exhalation of Stale Gas”Divine [[Violence]]The Points of the [[Impossible]]