Parallax of Growth: The Philosophy of Ecology and Economy by Ole Bjerg

Author:Ole Bjerg [Bjerg, Ole]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Wiley
Published: 2016-12-11T05:00:00+00:00

Along the lines of the previous analysis, interactivity is an example of the way that new knowledge and technology are used to expand the subject's desires. As we have already touched upon, smartphone technology combined with social media function to create and propel the subject's desire for online interactivity. But here is how Žižek continues:

The other side of this interactivity is interpassivity. The obverse of interacting with the object (instead of just passively following the show) is the situation in which the object itself takes from me, deprives me of, my own passivity, so that it is the object itself which enjoys the show instead of me, relieving me of the duty to enjoy myself. Almost every VCR aficionado who compulsively records movies (myself among them) is well aware that the immediate effect of owning a VCR is that one effectively watches fewer films than in the good old days of a simple TV set. One never has time for TV, so, instead of losing a precious evening, one simply tapes the film and stores it for a future viewing (for which, of course, there is almost never time). Although I do not actually watch the films, the very awareness that the films I love are stored in my video library gives me a profound satisfaction and, occasionally, enables me to simply relax and indulge in the exquisite art of far niente − as if the VCR is in a way watching them for me, in my place. VCR stands here for the big Other, the medium of symbolic registration.15

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