(After all, if Zizek can preach about the global crisis ...)
What is an empty signifier (word crept into this column Beatriz Sarlo no further explanation for the lay reader suffered )?
The discourse associated with this concept of fashion can be (or become) complex (or cryptic), as insinuated in this interview its inventor, Ernesto Laclau (a sort of Mammals Stiglitz of policies). Not to mention the original texts on the subject, deliberately -muddled protecting knowledge by creating a jargon jargon that might be called "rhetorical barriers to entry."
This is not a philosophy blog, so simplify. What is an empty signifier? In short, inappropriate words, if the signifier is the support of a meaning, a vacuum is a significant significvante meaningless, or more precisely, one that tolerates different meanings, possibly different and even contradictory. In vulgar terms, a blank screen on which the subject project their desires or demands of social groups.
us simplify further defining the term so obvious (in pictures) ...
Example 1: Mother Russia
Example 2: The default
Example 3: The people
Example 4: The charismatic leader (the statesman accidental)
Example 5: The monopoly
Example 6: The cross
Example 7: The opposition
Example 8: The cross
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