{"id":6245,"date":"2011-01-19T00:34:19","date_gmt":"2011-01-19T04:34:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/?p=6245"},"modified":"2012-12-21T02:19:37","modified_gmt":"2012-12-21T07:19:37","slug":"universality-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/2011\/01\/19\/universality-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Rothenberg on universality"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Universality based on the excess generated by the formal negation does not depend upon finding a common ontic property, that is a property which is just one more difference within the situation.\u00a0\u00a0 All such properties can be used to name differences that are mobilized in the game of hegemony, empty spaces, and master-signifiers, as we have see in the discussion of Laclau&#8217;s political thought.\u00a0 Only the minimal <em><strong>self<\/strong>&#8211;<\/em>difference (described as the radical antagonism cutting across every element) escapes this play of signifiers, existing in an extimate relation to the situation, rather than in its encyclopedia.[I have no idea what she means &#8216;encyclopedia&#8217; here, but R. does provide more insight on 168]\u00a0 This self-difference or (self-)antagonism subsists (ex-sists, Lacan would say, to emphasize its extimacy) as the hidden dimension. Accordingly, \u017di\u017eek goes on to argue for Badiou as the exemplar of the\u00a0 philosopher of extimate causality, while admonishing Laclau &#8230; for ultimately recasting antagonism as agonism, that is, as differences among self-same elements in the social field (Rothenberg 164, referring to \u017di\u017eek <em>Iraq Broken Kettle<\/em> 90).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Universality based on the excess generated by the formal negation does not depend upon finding a common ontic property, that is a property which is just one more difference within the situation.\u00a0\u00a0 All such properties can be used to name differences that are mobilized in the game of hegemony, empty spaces, and master-signifiers, as we &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/2011\/01\/19\/universality-2\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Rothenberg on universality&#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":[83,45,35,103,20],"tags":[143],"class_list":["post-6245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-agency","category-badiou","category-concrete_universal","category-universal","category-zizek","tag-excessive"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6245","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=6245"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6245\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6247,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6245\/revisions\/6247"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}