Editing Parallax (section)

== As a metaphor ==
In a philosophic/geometric sense: an apparent change in the direction of an object, caused by a change in observational position that provides a new line of sight. The apparent displacement, or difference of position, of an object, as seen from two different stations, or points of view. In contemporary writing, parallax can also be the same story, or a similar story from approximately the same timeline, from one book, told from a different perspective in another book. The word and concept feature prominently in [[James Joyce]]'s 1922 novel, ''[[Ulysses (novel)|Ulysses]]''. [[Orson Scott Card]] also used the term when referring to [[Ender's Shadow]] as compared to [[Ender's Game]].

The metaphor is invoked by Slovenian philosopher [[Slavoj Žižek]] in his 2006 book ''[[The Parallax View (book)|The Parallax View]]'', borrowing the concept of "parallax view" from the Japanese philosopher and literary critic [[Kojin Karatani]]. Žižek notes

{{Blockquote|text=The philosophical twist to be added (to parallax), of course, is that the observed distance is not simply "subjective", since the same object that exists "out there" is seen from two different stances or points of view. It is rather that, as [[Hegel]] would have put it, subject and object are inherently "mediated" so that an "[[epistemological]]" shift in the subject's point of view always reflects an "[[ontological]]" shift in the object itself. Or—to put it in [[Jacques Lacan|Lacanese]]—the subject's gaze is always already inscribed into the perceived object itself, in the guise of its "blind spot", that which is "in the object more than the object itself", the point from which the object itself returns the gaze. "Sure the picture is in my eye, but I am also in the picture"...<ref>{{cite book  | last = Žižek  | first = Slavoj  | author-link = Slavoj Žižek  | title = The Parallax View  | publisher = The MIT Press  | date = 2006  | pages = [https://archive.org/details/parallaxview0000zize/page/17 17]  | isbn = 978-0-262-24051-2  | url = https://archive.org/details/parallaxview0000zize/page/17  }}</ref> |author= Slavoj Žižek |title=''The Parallax View'' }}