Notes: Contradictory Hyperreality: Baudrillard, Žižek, and Virtual Dialectics

Notes & Points of interest

'everything that happens to a person is already contained virtually'

'Indeed, ontologically speaking, for Leibniz whatever is actual is only the realization of virtual possibilities that have always existed in the mind of God. In this sense, we can say Leibniz held a position that the actual arises from, and is dependent on, the virtual.'

'actual arises from, and is dependent on, the virtual.' (the hyporeality thesis)

^Thoughts of Zizek

'that the virtual arises from, and is dependent on, the actual.' (the surreality thesis)

^thoughts of Bloch