the phenomahnalogy of spirit

since this just came into my life, via facebook and while reading zizeks new book on hegel (yes i can multi-task & harry... there are no coincidences;) i thought it appropriate: the phenomahnalogy of the thing or (enscribed) in the thing itself. is it the thing itself or is it a mediation of the things themselves. now im getting redheaded vertigo.