Lévi-Strauss's two maps of the village

As told 3

“The truth about the tribe is the very antagonism of the two images. This tells you the truth.”
53:31 Is it possible to Move Beyond The Transcendental?2016-11-01 · 2:15:01

“the point is not that these two images don't fit reality. their truth is in the way they miss reality.”
32:50 Duel + Duet with Graham Harman2017-03-02 · 2:04:01

“The real is that X on account of which each member of the tribe falsified the disposition of villages.”
1:20:24 Slavoj Zizek On Jacques Lacan (Full Lecture)pub. 2017-01-05 · 4:34:05

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

knowledge versus truth ×1 social antagonism ×1 the Real ×1

Its cast and sources

populated by

Eduard von Hartmann1 Clive James1 Al-Qaeda1 Clifford Geertz1 Strauss1 Salome1 Françoise Paul-Lévy1 Hypatia1

alongside works

Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus2 The Euthanasia of Reason2 Structural Anthropology2 Superman I1 The Passions of the Soul1 The Not-Two1 Hannibal Rising1 Zarathustra1

Told together with

4% coffee without cream / coffee without milk 2 shared talks

Every retelling 3

53:31 Is it possible to Move Beyond The Transcendental?2016-11-01 · 2:15:01

Members of a tribe draw two irreconcilable maps of their village, one with a circular layout centered on the temple, one divided into two halves. Lévi-Strauss argues the truth about the tribe is precisely this antagonism of the two images, reflecting the tribe's transition from egalitarian to hierarchical society., illustrating Kantian antinomies as ontological,obstacle as solution,Hegel's move from epistemology to ontology

32:50 Duel + Duet with Graham Harman2017-03-02 · 2:04:01

Lévi-Strauss asked members of a Native American village to draw maps of their village and received two completely different drawings, one concentric-hierarchical, one dualist. The truth is not which map fits reality (neither does) but that the gap between them registers the growing social antagonism, the class division at the village's origin., illustrating truth vs. knowledge,ideology,social antagonism,the Real

1:20:24 Slavoj Zizek On Jacques Lacan (Full Lecture)pub. 2017-01-05 · 4:34:05

Two groups in a Native American village draw the same village layout differently (divided vs. centered). The 'Real' is not the physical houses but the social antagonism (class distinction) that causes these conflicting representations., illustrating the Real as social antagonism,nominalism vs. realism of the universal