the modern subject is not the “light” of the modern enlightenment, but “this night, this empty nothing …'

In Tarrying With the Negative, Žižek hence reads the Director’s Cut of Ridley Scott’s Bladerunner as revelatory of the Truth of the subject. 

Within this version of the film, as Žižek emphasizes, the main character Deckard literally does not know what he is—a robot that perceives itself to be human. 

According to Žižek, the subject is a “crack” in the universal field or substance of being, not a knowable thing . 

This is why Žižek repeatedly cites in his books the disturbing passage from the young Hegel describing the modern subject not as the “light” of the modern enlightenment, but “this night, this empty nothing …