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Signifier Vs. Sign (Aphorism 4)

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Signification and Capital Relationships

I love the way you use the term transactional. Because i would say capital, one of the main ways attractive is that it gives us these transactional relationships instead of ignifying relationships. I mentioned this book o of the heir to you, called symbolic economies, by jean jusefgu and am. And he tries to do a homology between the structure of capital and the structure of signification. It's wrong because there always is, lurking beneath the signifier, the desire of the other. You can't escape that desire of theother that's lurking within, within the signifier. That's great about capitalism, it lets you know that, look, this person doesn

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