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The Dark Tower (Film/Book)

example · literature: Stephen King · retold in 3 talks
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A story where a modern city and a 'Magic Wild West' are connected by a Dark Tower. Destroying the tower destroys both worlds, illustrating a 'redoubled suture' where each reality needs the other's representative to exist.

As told 2

“Our reality cannot stand alone, it has to be sustained by a much more barbaric other world.”
1:04:18 Slavoj Zizek – Transcendental Subjectivity, Sexual Difference, Brain Sciences2017-10-06 · 2:02:10
“The Dark Tower...holds it together. If this tower is destroyed, our reality will disintegrate.”
~0:01 Moebius Strip, Cross Cap, Klein Bottle: The Twisted Space of Subjectivity2017-10-20 · 2:30:44

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
cross-cap ×3 suture ×3 point de capiton ×1

Its cast and sources

populated by
Jacques Milner1Dr. O'Brien-Bell1Winston Smith1Matthew McConaughey1Idris Elba1Ethan Hawke1Julianne Moore1Robert Burns1
alongside works
The Dark Tower2The Leftovers2Tristan und Isolde / Ring Cycle (Stagings)1Suture: Elements of the Logic of the Signifier1Some Transcendental Subjectivity, Sexual Difference and Brain Science1On the Difference of the Myopic Planets1Lenin in Warsaw1Beyond Sorrow1

Every retelling 2

1:04:18 Slavoj Zizek – Transcendental Subjectivity, Sexual Difference, Brain Sciences2017-10-06 · 2:02:10
A story where a modern city and a 'Magic Wild West' are connected by a Dark Tower. Destroying the tower destroys both worlds, illustrating a 'redoubled suture' where each reality needs the other's representative to exist., illustrating cross-cap,redoubled suture
~0:01 Moebius Strip, Cross Cap, Klein Bottle: The Twisted Space of Subjectivity2017-10-20 · 2:30:44
The Dark Tower sutures two parallel universes (modern New York and the violent 'Mid-World') in King's novel/film; destroy the tower and both realities disintegrate, a naively vivid image of Lacan's point de capiton., illustrating point de capiton (quilting point),suture,Cross-cap (logic of Essence/reflection)