Socioplastics 11970 Disagreement Persists After Evidence Is Shared
A disagreement can persist after participants have received the same information because they differ over what makes a situation politically visible. ParallaxFold names this structured non-coincidence: positions address a shared site or event while organising its significance through different frames. The difference reaches beyond incomplete information. It concerns which relations count as relevant, what kinds of action appear justified and who is recognised as part of the public whose world is at stake. Slavoj Žižek develops parallax as a gap between perspectives that cannot be resolved by treating one as a simple supplement to the other. Hannah Arendt understands politics through plurality: people disclose a shared world from positions that remain distinct. Their concepts belong to different philosophical projects. Read in relation, they help distinguish informational disagreement from conflicts about how a public problem is constituted. Shared evidence can clarify the stakes of a dispute while leaving the underlying differences in political appearance intact. A municipal consultation might use the same figures about crowd size, traffic and police incidents while dividing over whether a square is primarily a site of public safety or a right to assemble. A record guided by ParallaxFold would preserve each framing, identify the evidence and assumptions attached to it, and show where participants converge or diverge. Researchers could then trace how each definition affects proposed interventions, who can speak for the site and which experiences become institutionally legible. This approach preserves disagreement as evidence about the structure of public life. The marker supports decisions that acknowledge the terms of an unresolved conflict. Public institutions still need to act, yet action can be accompanied by a record of the perspectives it affects and the reasons it adopts. A shared archive might retain incompatible accounts of the same place, link them to their sources and document later changes in interpretation. ParallaxFold gives disagreement a form that can be examined over time. Its contribution is to make the gap analytically precise while keeping a common world available for further political encounter.
REFERENCES
Arendt, H. (1958) The Human Condition. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Žižek, S. (2006) The Parallax View. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
CITE AS
Lloveras, A. (2026) Socioplastics, LAPIEZA-LAB, Madrid.
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