The paper addresses the relation between the linguistic sign and economic value so that the specific tactile quality of commodity fetishism could be discerned. In order to do so it proceeds from Saussure’s definition of sign as value and correlate it with Marx’s own definition of value in relation to language, which in a symptomatic way repeats Hegel’s definition of the sign as spiritual pyramid. Thus, if the unconscious is structured as language as Lacan repeated all over again, then this paper addresses the issue of capitalist unconscious precisely by linking the linguistic sign with the economic value through the concept of touch as their common denominator in order to tackle the haptic materiality of commodity fetishism.
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COBISS.SI-ID: 35354717The paper moves from the connection between Marx's value-theory on the one side and Saussure's theory of the sign on the other, while on the crossroads of both questions the status of "value" as such, materialistically understood as (un)touchable, that is, that instance that structures the field of touching and not-touching at the same time.
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COBISS.SI-ID: 35354973The paper focuses on the concept of "clinamen" from the philosophical materialistic tradition, as it figures on the horizon of the greco-roman tradition from Epicur to Lucian, and leads up until Marx and Lacan, while the main hypothesis says that there is a haptic parallelism between the conceptual, linguistic and material meaning of the word "declination".
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