Consciousness as simplification, of decision, of making
the world manageable. (See my theory on Attention). And then, the
mystery of our awareness of this process, the reflexivity of the whole.
With Zizek:
Zizek, Slavoj. "The Interaction with the Other in Hegel (2009, 3/17)." Lecture at European Graduate School, 2009. Online video at YouTube (egsvideo) 23 March 2010.*
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"The subordinate mediator becomes the subject". That seems to be a
quite general law governing human action and attention, or, to be more
precise, what becomes the subject (and the object of attention) is a successful subordinate mediator.
In this respect, we might consider Malabou's reading of Hegel's
linguistic anthropology: "Chapter 3 [of The
Future of Hegel]
then raises the question: if humans are not the only animals that
develop habits, what is it that gives us a capacity for
self-determination that other animals lack? Chapter 4 responds that the
use of language differentiates human beings from other animals and
makes our habitual behavior unique: "Man is exemplary because the human
formative power can translate the logical process into a sensuous form"
(74). This, Malabou concludes, makes each of us capable of plastic
individuality, of transforming our own singular essence in
unforeseeable ways by incorporating what was formerly accidental."
Note btw that Malabou's reading is consistent with my own view of Hegel
as a demythologizer in religion, and as a philosopher who acknowledges
the productive dimension of reflexivity.
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Zizek: "History means there is no metalanguage" —you cannot stand on
your own shoulders, cognitively speaking, and any panorama of
philosophy, any reading of another philosophy, is done from a
situated philosophical standpoint. For Hegel, the meaning of an act
arises through the act itself; meaning is not pre-existing: it is
created retroactively. History is one big process of exaptation.
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