{"id":4589,"date":"2009-12-08T11:43:46","date_gmt":"2009-12-08T15:43:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/?p=4589"},"modified":"2009-12-08T11:57:59","modified_gmt":"2009-12-08T15:57:59","slug":"rickert-acts-of-enjoyment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/2009\/12\/08\/rickert-acts-of-enjoyment\/","title":{"rendered":"rickert acts of enjoyment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rickert, Thomas. <em>Acts of Enjoyment<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>However as Torfing explains in <em>New Theories of Discourse<\/em>, there is a difference between conceiving the social as a totality that always falls short of closure and conceiving it as something already fundamentally split or fissured that we try and fail to conceive as a totality (Torfing 52)(45).<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">This is the point at which \u017di\u017eek parts company with Laclau and Mouffe. While he retains notions such as chains of signifiers and a discursive field open to rearticulations, he theorizes the discursive field in terms of a fundamental fissure, not simply as something nontotalizable.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>From \u017di\u017eek&#8217;s perspective, the social is better understood in terms of a fundamental antagonism that prevents any closure, rather than as a Derridean field of signifiers whose incompleteness stems from the signifier&#8217;s free play in the absence of any organizing, totalizing center.\u00a0 <strong>It is thus a question of whether substitution or antagonism is primary in the operations of discourse<\/strong>. (45)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rickert, Thomas. Acts of Enjoyment. However as Torfing explains in New Theories of Discourse, there is a difference between conceiving the social as a totality that always falls short of closure and conceiving it as something already fundamentally split or fissured that we try and fail to conceive as a totality (Torfing 52)(45). This is &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/2009\/12\/08\/rickert-acts-of-enjoyment\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;rickert acts of enjoyment&#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":[21,15,106,20],"tags":[109],"class_list":["post-4589","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-jouissance","category-subjectivity","category-the-act","category-zizek","tag-whoa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4589","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=4589"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4589\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4591,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4589\/revisions\/4591"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}