{"id":9117,"date":"2012-07-17T10:59:33","date_gmt":"2012-07-17T15:59:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/?p=9117"},"modified":"2013-07-17T10:06:48","modified_gmt":"2013-07-17T15:06:48","slug":"bartleby-politics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/2012\/07\/17\/bartleby-politics\/","title":{"rendered":"Bartleby Politics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Parallax View<\/p>\n<p>frog embracing bottle of beer<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;objectively subjective&#8217; underlying fantasy which the two subjects are never able to assume<\/p>\n<p>A certain excess which was, as it were, kept under check in previous history, perceived as a local perversion, a limited deviation, is in capitalism elevated into the very principle of social life, in the speculative movement of money begetting more money, of a system which can survive only by constantly revolutionizing its own conditions \u2014 that is to say, in whichthe thing can survive only as its own excess, constantly exceeding its own &#8220;normal&#8221; constraints. 297<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">The <span style=\"color: #0000ff; font-weight: bold;\">Analyst Discourse<\/span> and the emergence of revolutionary-emancipatory subjectivity<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Analyst.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-8741\" title=\"Analyst Discourse\" alt=\"Analyst Discourse\" src=\"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Analyst-300x200.gif\" width=\"200\" height=\"100\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>revolutionary agent <em><strong>a\u00a0<\/strong><\/em> addresses the subject from the position of knowledge which occupies the place of truth (that is, which intervenes at the &#8220;symptomal torsion&#8221; of the subject&#8217;s constellation), and the goal is to isolate, get rid of, the Master-Signifier which structured the subject&#8217;s (ideologico-political) unconscious.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Jacques-Alain Miller:\u00a0 Our civilization fits the discourse of the Analyst. the &#8220;agent&#8221; is <strong><em>a<\/em><\/strong> surplus enjoyment, the superego injunction to enjoy, addresses <a href=\"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/BarredS.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-9121\" title=\"BarredS\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/BarredS.jpg\" width=\"30\" height=\"33\" \/><\/a>(the divided subject) who is put to work in order to live up to this injunction.\u00a0 If ever there was a superego injunction, it is the famous Oriental wisdom, &#8220;Don&#8217;t think, just <em>do<\/em> it.&#8221; The &#8220;truth&#8221; of this social link is <em><strong>S2<\/strong><\/em>, scientific-expert knowledge in its different guises, and the goal is to generate<em><strong> S1<\/strong><\/em>, the self-mastery of the subject \u2014 that is to enable the subject to &#8220;cope with&#8221; the stress of the call to enjoyment (through self-help manuals and so on)&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>\u017di\u017eek replies:<\/p>\n<p>imbalance between Ego and <em>jouissance<\/em>, imbalance between pleasure and foreign body of\u00a0<em>jouissance<\/em>, pose a threat to the possession of the objet<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Parallax View frog embracing bottle of beer &#8216;objectively subjective&#8217; underlying fantasy which the two subjects are never able to assume A certain excess which was, as it were, kept under check in previous history, perceived as a local perversion, a limited deviation, is in capitalism elevated into the very principle of social life, in the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/2012\/07\/17\/bartleby-politics\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Bartleby Politics&#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":[124,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-4-discourses","category-zizek"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9117","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=9117"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9117\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11537,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9117\/revisions\/11537"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}