Whereas for Marx the fetishism of commodities conceals the positive network of social relations, for Žižek a fetish conceals the fantasmatic void around which symbolic networks revolve:
"Herein lies the difference with Marxism: in the predominant Marxist perspective the ideological gaze is a partial gaze overlooking the totality of social relations, whereas in the Lacanian perspective ideology rather designates a totality set on effacing the traces of its own impossibility."
Žižek, The Sublime Object of Ideology, p. 49.
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
No comments:
Post a Comment