Subjects and Simulations by O'Byrne Anne; Silverman Hugh J.; Aylesworth Gary E

Author:O'Byrne, Anne; Silverman, Hugh J.; Aylesworth, Gary E.
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 1864084
Publisher: Lexington Books

The Greek sun, he points out, is the equivalent of the Latin cum (and of the English con), which reminds us that symbolism is all about a relation. A Baudrillardian might agree, pointing out that the relation in question is the one between object and representation, or reality and image. Nancy disagrees. Neither the Habermasian theory of communication based on the supposition of a rational subject, nor the Baudrillardian theory of hyperreality, based on the supposition of a real (albeit now lost) presence go far enough. Neither supposition can found a theory of the social, because each already presupposes being social or social being. The sum of sumbolon refers to this; it refers not to the specific relation of reality and the image but to the relation between beings. Nancy writes:

[T]he “spectacle,” “communication,” the “commodity,” “technology” are no more than figures (albeit perverse figures) . . . of social reality—the real of social being (l’être-social)—laid bare in, through and as the symbolicity which constitutes it (ESP, 79).

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