{"id":4695,"date":"2010-01-25T21:36:26","date_gmt":"2010-01-26T01:36:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/?p=4695"},"modified":"2011-01-16T16:42:51","modified_gmt":"2011-01-16T20:42:51","slug":"rothenberg-excess","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/2010\/01\/25\/rothenberg-excess\/","title":{"rendered":"rothenberg excess"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rothenberg, Molly Anne. <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">The Excessive Subject<\/span>. Cambridge UK,  Malden MA USA: Polity Press, 2010.\u00a0 Print.<\/p>\n<p>Individuals are always working to re-assemble, re-build the social.\u00a0 The social as in social force is not always already there, ready to take up the explanatory slack.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;As we shall see, the impossibility of immediate (immanent) communication will be decisive for the generation and sustenance of social subjects in a social field.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">It is particularly important to keep in mind that signification \u2014 the process of bestowing meaning \u2014 does not function by way of the intentions of speakers or authors but rather by way\u00a0 of the appropriation of the signifier by the auditor or reader. <\/span>17<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\ud83d\ude42 I like R&#8217;s emphasis on <em>excess<\/em>. It gives me a whole different understanding of this thing called the <em>remainder<\/em> the both Laclau and\u00a0 Butler throw around.\u00a0 R. here uses it to mean the surplus in signification, what is necessary for communication to exist.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The excess necessary for signification <em>enables<\/em> associations by <em>dissolving<\/em> previous associations: without such dissolution, the link between signifier and signified would ossify and signification would be impossible (19).<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Excess signifies the <em>impossibility <\/em>of<em> <\/em>immanent communion and for R. this is a good thing indeed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rothenberg, Molly Anne. The Excessive Subject. Cambridge UK, Malden MA USA: Polity Press, 2010.\u00a0 Print. Individuals are always working to re-assemble, re-build the social.\u00a0 The social as in social force is not always already there, ready to take up the explanatory slack. &#8220;As we shall see, the impossibility of immediate (immanent) communication will be decisive &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/2010\/01\/25\/rothenberg-excess\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;rothenberg excess&#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":[15],"tags":[143],"class_list":["post-4695","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-subjectivity","tag-excessive"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4695","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=4695"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4695\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6229,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4695\/revisions\/6229"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}