Einstein: curvature of space is primary, matter is its effect

As told 3

“Einstein's move to turn things around to say that no the curvature of the space is original and matter is just an effect of the curved space.”
1:38:41 The Reflection of Life in Hegel2009 · 2:11:29

“what we perceive as matter is just a kind of a reified fetishist misperception of a purely formal curvature of the space”
25:16 The Reality of the Virtual2004 · 1:13:15

“Matter is nothing but an effect of the curving the space... in drive, object a is that which accounts for the Spannung.”
1:27:40 Why Todestrieb is a Philosophical Concept2009-03-06 · 1:29:44

What it carries

one story, many jobs: the ideas this anecdote is deployed to argue, one tally mark per use (an idea page shows the same relation from the other end, as its shelf of stories)

contents · one story, 3 jobsuses

objet petit a ×2 drive versus desire ×2 curved space as materialist dialectics ×1

Its cast and sources

populated by

Thomas More1 Nora Barnacle1 Brothers Grimm1 Rider Haggard1 Mark Epstein1 Yevgeny Yevtushenko1 Hans Christian Andersen1 Maurice Merleau-Ponty1

alongside works

Utopia1 Philosophy in the Boudoir1 Seminars XVI and XVII (Lacan)1 Halloween1 Éthique de la Psychanalyse (Seminar VII)1 Genealogie der Moral (Nietzsche)1 King Solomon's Mines1 The Spectre of Marx1

Told together with

50% Wolfman and retroactive trauma 2 shared talks 29% Tarkovsky as most materialist and most spiritualist filmmaker 2 shared talks

Every retelling 3

1:38:41 The Reflection of Life in Hegel2009 · 2:11:29

Einstein's move from special to general relativity, first matter curves space, then curvature is primary and matter is an effect, is used as a philosophical parallel to the shift from Kant to Hegel and to the Lacanian Real as formal impossibility., illustrating curved space as materialist dialectics,Kant to Hegel,Lacanian Real as formal impossibility

25:16 The Reality of the Virtual2004 · 1:13:15

In the shift from special to general relativity, Einstein reversed the assumption that matter curves space: curvature is primordial, and matter is a reified misperception of formal curvature. Žižek uses this as a structural homology for the psychoanalytic and Marxist reversals he performs., illustrating curvature of space (psychoanalytic),trauma as virtual,purely formal materialism

1:27:40 Why Todestrieb is a Philosophical Concept2009-03-06 · 1:29:44

Einstein first thought matter curves space, then had the more ingenious idea that matter is nothing but an effect of space curving. Žižek uses this to explain objet a in drive: not a positive substance but the minimal formal twist (curvature) that accounts for the Spannung., illustrating objet petit a,drive vs desire,Spannung