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ABSTRACT This article argues that the founding logics of late neoliberalism actively mitigate against a radically democratic future. By calling attention to the invocatory drive which is responsible for effecting the Symbolic order’s interpellative address, the article makes the case that Lacan’s retheorization of desire, the drives, and/as jouissance opens the way toward an ontologically grounded conception of radical political agency and rhetorical intervention whose abiding ethical injunction is to “imagine there’s no Publics!”

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Advances in the History of Rhetoric
Published
2014-01-02
DOI
10.1080/15362426.2014.886926
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  1. Philosophy & Rhetoric
  2. Rhetoric Society Quarterly
  3. Advances in the History of Rhetoric

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