On Being Bound to Equivalential Chains
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 18948265 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Christian Lundberg (0000-0002-6499-2956, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2012 |
| Volume | 26 |
| Issue | 2-3 |
| Pages | 299-318 |
| Publication date | 2012-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Cultural Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0950-2386 • E-ISSN: 1466-4348 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/09502386.2011.647641 |
| OpenAlex | W1970150875 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
| References cited | 3 |
Taking up the test case of radical anti-globalization protest, this essay addresses Ernesto Laclau's theory of the democratic demand, reading it against Lacan's and Freud's conceptions of demand. I argue, largely drawing from Lacan's conception of enjoyment that a theory of the democratic demand must take into account the risk that a subject's enjoyment in positing a demand can overwhelm the potential political of the demand itself. In response to this risk, I argue that a theory of democracy should shift from a demand-driven politics centred around enjoying a specific subject position tied to ‘resistance’ towards a desire-driven politics that productively incorporates the ‘no’ as a means of articulating collective political aspirations
Democracy · Economics · Epistemology · Globalization · Market economy · Neoclassical economics · Political science · Politics · Positive economics · Sociology · Critical Theory and Philosophy · Law · Philosophy · Populism, Right-Wing Movements · Psychoanalysis, Philosophy, and Politics
| Unique citing works | 4 |
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| Citations per year | 0,33 |
| Citation span | 2014 - 2020 (7) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 4 |