symbolic efficiency
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an idea that Zizek apparently talks about a lot, which he borrows from Lacan (?): that facts become true only if they are known by the “big Other” (public opinion, social values, etc) in addition to ourselves
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symbolic efficiency
One is tempted here to use that old Levi-Straussian term ‘symbolic efficiency’: the appearance of égaliberté is a symbolic fiction which, as such, possesses an actual efficiency of its own.
not really sure what it means here tbh
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