Friday
Feb062009
Symbolic Efficiency
Friday 6 February, 2009
Dale Smith, following up on a post of his I previously linked to:
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First of all, any misunderstandings in the “Tag Clouds” post result from a rapid-fire application of Jodi Dean’s potentially useful notion of “Tag Clouds.” I should have skipped her provocative terms, however, and just gone straight to the source: Zizek (and behind him, Lacan). I’ve warped it to my uses because symbolic efficiency is important to grasp in criticism not only of Flarf, but also in understanding how other aspects of contemporary life contribute to this decline.
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Zizek and others see a decline in symbolic efficiency, and indicate that it’s a result of the ongoing transformation of capitalism. I suggested that Flarf naively contributes to this decline not because of its recycling of texts or its hyposyntax, but because it doesn’t account for its symbolization process—doesn’t suppose the significance of the big Other, nor does it much seek association between its symbolic acts and a corresponding reality.
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