ABSTRACT
In this chapter, I discuss loneliness with reference to Terry Gilliam’s film, Zero Theorem. Drawing on Stiegler, Heidegger and Lacan, I discuss loneliness as technological existence in response to the demise of the metaphysical tradition, reality and virtuality, the juxtaposition of the local-spatial dimension to the infinity of time, the insertion of man into a vast technological system of knowledge and contemporary processes of individuation, de-individuation and trans-individuation. Loneliness in this film, I argue, is the motion of being-thrown-forward and withdrawing-from the world, the pure difference between oneself and the world which allows us to interact with those around us.
