
Election Special
Why Theory
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Is Obama a Figure of Enthusiasm?
I think Obama was pretty as successful as he could have been, but I do think that the one, for me, the one real screw up was putting Geithner and Summers in charge of the economic bailout. That's a real- Dean Baker's written a lot on this. He's a left economist and that's, yeah. So my idea is that the, the right always, that the master signifier, the phallic signifier, this figure of authority is always central for right-wing politics,. And that figure is a figure of enjoyment. On the left, they're the genuine leftist project, if it's universal, has not a figure of the master, but instead
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