The Drive, Episode 1
Lectures on Lacan Podcast
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The Importance of Death
"If elephants go and die, I still have the signifier. And there's a very real sense in which as soon as I have that signifier, it's always a pronouncement of their death," he says. "There's a reason why whenever you want to take over a small country, hell, a big country, one of the first things you do is fuck with their tombstones." He adds: "Easier to kill a number than it is to kill somebody with a name like yours"
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