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  2. Floating signifier - Wikipedia

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    Jacques Derrida also described the "freeplay" of signifiers, arguing that they are not fixed to their signifieds but point beyond themselves to other signifiers in an "indefinite referral of signifier to signified." [4] In Emancipation(s), Ernesto Laclau frames the empty signifier in the context of social interactions. For Laclau, the empty ...

  3. Ernesto Laclau - Wikipedia

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    Ernesto Laclau (Spanish:; 6 October 1935 – 13 April 2014) was an Argentine political theorist and philosopher. He is often described as an 'inventor' of post-Marxist political theory. He is well known for his collaborations with his long-term partner, Chantal Mouffe .

  4. The Instance of the Letter in the Unconscious, or Reason ...

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    When a signifier crosses the bar, from above it to under it, it becomes a signified. But this leaves a space or gap above the bar which, according to Lacan, is the subject. [citation needed] In Lacanian psychoanalysis, the subject only appears fleetingly, on those rare occasions when a signifier crosses the bar, leaving an empty space above it.

  5. Sign (semiotics) - Wikipedia

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    An 'empty' or 'floating signifier' is variously defined as a signifier with a vague, highly variable, unspecifiable or non-existent signified. Such signifiers mean different things to different people: they may stand for many or even any signifieds; they may mean whatever their interpreters want them to mean.

  6. Contingency, Hegemony, Universality - Wikipedia

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    Over the course of the 1990s, Butler, Laclau, and Žižek found themselves engaging with each other's work in their own books. In order to focus more closely on their theoretical differences (and similarities), they decided to produce a book in which all three would contribute three essays each, with the authors' respective second and third essays responding to the points of dispute raised by ...

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  8. Essex School of discourse analysis - Wikipedia

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    The Essex School of discourse analysis, or simply 'The Essex School', refers to a type of scholarship founded on the works of Ernesto Laclau and Chantal Mouffe.It focuses predominantly on the political discourses of late modernity utilising discourse analysis, as well as post-structuralist and psychoanalytic theory, such as may be found in the works of Lacan, Foucault, Barthes, and Derrida.

  9. Talk:Floating signifier - Wikipedia

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    1 Empty and floating signifiers are not synonymous. ... Upload file; Special pages; ... Download QR code ...