Abstract
In this essay I advance the thesis that there is a structural homology between economic and semantic systems of exchange- two systems that in the secular capitalist era cover nothing less than the fields of capital, sign, and subject. By claiming a structural homology among these three fields I also mean to place them on the same epistemological level, whereby none of these fields can be considered to be the cause of the other fields. Rather, all three are caused and determined by a function of different ontological and epistemological status: surplus.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | The Dreams of Interpretation: A Century Down the Royal Road |
| Editors | Catherine Liu, John Mowitt, Thomas Pepper |
| Place of Publication | U.S.A. |
| Publisher | University of Minnesota Press |
| Pages | 303-319 |
| Number of pages | 17 |
| ISBN (Electronic) | 9780816654130 |
| ISBN (Print) | 9780816647996 |
| Publication status | Published - 2007 |