[Peace-discuss] Empty signifier

[E.Wayne Johnson]

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "C. G. Estabrook" <galliher at illinois.edu>
To: "Peace-discuss" <peace-discuss at anti-war.net>
Sent: Tuesday, December 29, 2009 8:14 PM
Subject: [Peace-discuss] Empty signifier


> [The late Claude Lévi-Strauss coined this term "to represent an 
> undetermined quantity of signification, in itself void of meaning and thus 
> apt to receive any meaning". Such "floating siginifiers" may "mean 
> whatever their interpreters want them to mean" and so can "allow symbolic 
> thought to operate despite the contradiction inherent in it".  Here's a 
> leading contemporary example. --CGE]
>
> Ben Stein Says Ron Paul Is Antisemitic for Calling US ‘Occupiers’
> Eric Garris, December 29, 2009
>
> On Larry King, Ben Stein said that Ron Paul calling the US “occupiers” was 
> “using the same antisemitic argument we’ve heard over and over.”
>
> Former game show host and economist Ben Stein first came into prominence 
> when he worked for notorious antisemite Richard Nixon.
>
> http://www.antiwar.com/blog/2009/12/29/ben-stein-calls-ron-paul-antisemitic-for-calling-us-occupiers/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+AWCBlog+%28Antiwar.com+Blog%29
>
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