{"id":4109,"date":"2009-10-15T21:43:38","date_gmt":"2009-10-16T01:43:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/?p=4109"},"modified":"2011-10-25T13:44:07","modified_gmt":"2011-10-25T18:44:07","slug":"pluth-desire-demand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/2009\/10\/15\/pluth-desire-demand\/","title":{"rendered":"pluth desire demand"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pluth, Ed. <em>Signifiers and Acts: Freedom in Lacan&#8217;s Theory of the Act<\/em>. Albany: New York, 2007.<\/p>\n<p>An identity politics usually makes a demand for recognition by appealing to notions of justice and equality, but there is often something more in its demands. For this reason, the recognition and victories obtained may be unsatisfying, because for many in the movement the movement was not just about the recognition of specific demands. &#8230; On \u017di\u017eek&#8217;s account such scissions happen in political movements because<strong> there is always a desire <\/strong>lurking behind the demands that group makes: a <strong>desire<\/strong> that cannot be satisfied the way a demand can be (1999 Ticklish Subject, 266-268)<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>This desire is, as \u017di\u017eek describes it, essentially negative<\/strong>. A movement that would respect the negative desire that constitutes it is one that might demand nothing in particular, yet would still protest. (140)<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>For \u017di\u017eek and Badiou, a movement&#8217;s inability to articulate a specific demand, in contrast to movements that are quite specific and goal oriented, is an important marker of its political status (140).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pluth, Ed. Signifiers and Acts: Freedom in Lacan&#8217;s Theory of the Act. Albany: New York, 2007. An identity politics usually makes a demand for recognition by appealing to notions of justice and equality, but there is often something more in its demands. For this reason, the recognition and victories obtained may be unsatisfying, because for &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/2009\/10\/15\/pluth-desire-demand\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;pluth desire demand&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45,111,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4109","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-badiou","category-desire","category-zizek"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4109","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4109"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4109\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4111,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4109\/revisions\/4111"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}