Full lecture: The Master Signifier (Žižek/Lacan explained)
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Great video as always. All of this ties in with Žižek's/Pfallers's concept of Interpassivity, no? At least that's what I thought when I was constantly reminded of the chicken joke in the early stages of the pandemic: Around where I live some commodities such as toilet paper were sold out for a while. And while most people I talked to knew what I knew, namely that there wasn't any reason to fear tp shortages, all of us simply couldn't be sure that the rest of the people knew this. So, of course, all of us bought more than usual, thus aggravating, probably creating, the shortage in the first place.
Wow.. I remember struggling with these problems for sooo many years and had no clue it could be answered philosophically. Its crazy how simply asking questions can have such real consequences, especially if they're left unanswered
12:14 das sublime Element 13:09 die sublime Lücke: das Reale: die Lücke zwischen Imaginärem!!! (dem Konstatierendem) und Symbolischem!!! (der Sprechhandlung / dem Performativem / Ausdruck der Bezeichnung); Bsp: Demokratie 10:20 13:40 when u fall into the Real während Verfassen der eigenen Doktorarbeit; diese Lücke die hier angesprochen wird, ist in jedem wirtschaftlichen Phänomen vorhanden und konstituiert es erst! 18:38 enjoyable relationship between the constative and the performative 20:56 HERRSCHAFTSSIGNIFIKANT: eine symbolische Repräsentation einer Sprechhandlung, z.B. die Note, die für sich selbst genommen NICHTS bedeutet (ohne Bezug zum Rest der Signifikantenkette, z.B. für Ureinwohner oder Alien), weil rein zufällig ausgewählter Marker, aber gleichzeitig ALLES bedeutet !!!: formt soziale Hierarchie, Konstellation, Interaktion und die Identität der Individuen: Note spiegelt soziale Struktur, gibt sie wieder (infuses everything else with meaning); andere Beispiele: Pokal, Trauring, Gold, Geld (?!), Titel, Gott, Zentralbank! siehe 22:45 supreme court; das Reale, die Lücke konstituiert den Genuss in der (jeder) Tätigkeit!, die retroaktive Zurückwirkung der symbolischen Struktur auf das Imaginäre konkretisiert das Imaginäre und konstituiert damit einhergehend die Art des Genusses (entscheidet über das Vorzeichen des Genusses!!!; deshalb ist die Symbolstruktur entscheidend für die Gesamtheit des Sein; ohne die virtuelle Symbolstruktur keine Faktizität, kein konkretes Erleben, kein konkretes Sein!) performative Handlung durch Herrensignifikant gibt (ex ante imaginärer) Handlung retroaktiv eine konkrete Bedeutung 31:41 dadurch dass die Katholiken die Determinierung (Sanktionierung) durch Gott fürchten, können sie in der nicht-Determinierung durch ihn (also so gut wie immer) frei sein (die Lücke zwischen zwischen Imaginären und Symbolischem wird durch Gott gefüllt, greift dieses höher Wesen nicht in die Freiheit der niederen Wesen ein, sind die niederen Wesen völlig frei); der Protestant dagegen fürchtet Gott nicht, sondern liebt ihn, er wartet also nicht auf die potentielle Determinierung durch Gott, sondern muss sich selbst determinieren, sanktionieren (siehe z.B. Arbeitsethos und Konsumentsagung der Calvinisten): Beispiel für die Selbst-Spaltung der Freiheit in Determinismus et vice versa?, siehe 35:35 wir warten auf den Lückenfüller Gott bzw. die Repräsentation: Wer hatte von Grund auf Recht?, siehe 38:40 Vorsicht, wenn so eine Retterfigur / Schicksalsfigur gefunden ist 45:32 all knowledge rests on unbewusstem Glauben 49:25 knowledge lies on the filling in of the Herrensignifikant 50:45 das Wissen des großen Anderen hängt vom Glauben daran ab (den Glauben an das Wissen des Anderen); mein Wissen hängt damit von der Absenz der Nachricht ab (da es vom Glauben abhängt und ich kann nur an den großen Anderen unbewusst glauben, wenn dieser keinen konkreten Kontakt mit mir durch das Senden einer Nachricht eingeht; denn er ist ja virtuell; ein konkreter Kontakt zerstört diese Virtualität und damit auch die Konstitution von konkretem Wissen!!!, s.o.) ab 52:00 der Glaube in die symbolische Struktur, gestützt durch den Herrensignifikant konstituiert retroaktiv das Konkrete / Konstatierende / Imaginäre (?!!!!!) 55:30 eliminate the empty space (the real), alles fällt in sich zusammen + was Hysterie bedeutet
The UK bureaucracy is an exotic beast. The phone is used instead of written communication in order to weaken the position of the applicant, who rarely indeed is granted a document to guarantee their rights (other than property rights). British citizens are really subjects: my first passport actually declared that I was a "subject". Only when the UK joined the EU did I become a "citizen"; but - having lived in EU countries for years - I know I am a subject for in the UK state. It starts with the lack of a written constitution, resulting in such outlandish things as a 120 page booklet explaining residency (which can only, in the case of a dispute, be decided by a judge). It aims to allow the privileged to slip through nets, and enjoy their wealth and power. Foreigners who have Settled, or Pre-settled (!) Status are not given a document, so that the immigration official at the border has the discretion to refuse entry.
Great video, I really understood the master-signifier during the 5 minutes out of 60 where you actually explained what the master-signifier is. Thanks.
Love example of The Simpsons you have made it so clear why I have so much guilt eating donuts😂
Great work man:) definitely made this much more chewable.
Well that was beautiful
Your face is a master signifier.
Great, but if beginners look up the extremely rare English word "constatative" , they will only find it in the title of a paper on something completely different. I recommend using "constative", online definitions of which can be found.
Could u elaborate a bit on what you mean by constatative and performative?
I think it may be constitutive. From "To create" - constitute. just doing it.
I'm watching your video, and I don't like it. It's not very straight to the point. I would suggest you review how to make a definitional argument. I have been reading other materials in an effort to resolve how a master signifier is defined; but maybe there is a paradox to all of this: If there is no master signifier, what hope do I have to make sense of your video through the language you use?
Personally, I am very concerned about the concept of a master signifier (as it's non-existence may be described relative to Derrida's deconstructionism) because an absence of its actual existence appears to be grounding for denying that a reasonable person can ever read criminal law in order to know how to follow a criminal law in order to follow said criminal law in order to not violated said criminal law. I think that in American criminal law, the rule of lenity should always be applying because there is "grievous ambiguity" to be found in all American criminal statutes that cannot be resolved for interpretation by a reasonable person. I think through the postmodern philosophy of language, society might be able to argue that no one can make sense of any law and is left to conjecturing about what a law says if but managing to know via a matter of luck.
I'm still watching your video, but I thought I'd mentioned something: If there is no recipe for success in a class you're teaching, then it seems you have no framework with which you're teaching your class for there to be success. In other words, if there is a paradigm you have for mastery of the class to occur, then there is a way to succeed in the class to be had.
I think... and I've been out of university for a while, but weeding out people seems to be more on higher-education-person's minds rather than that act of teaching because of competition to be had for higher socio-economic positions that fruition from excellent work in academia.