Thomas Paine: "I am contending for the rights of the living, and against their being willed away and controlled and contracted for by the manuscript assumed authority of the dead." I've seen Gothic readings of Marx, is there yet a Gothic Paine? Authority/Capital as vampires.
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Zizek does. Several times, regrettably. The vampires as capitalists is a much more interesting argument than capitalists as vampires. That they cast no reflection is the bit that holds promise for further analysis given the centrality of logics of specularity & the imaginary.
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Some links: http://www.lacan.com/symptom16/kant.html … On Zizek & the Gothic: http://zizekstudies.org/index.php/IJZS/article/download/356/356 … Predictably vampires can be thought of in all Lacanian registers: Imaginary, Symbolic & the Real; & possibly the 4th of the vampire as Symptom/enjoyment about which he says surprisingly little.
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It's an ongoing reference with him. See For they Know Not What they do, Enjoy Your Symptom, Parallax View, Living in End Times. It comes up during discussions of the mirror logic, the undead in the Symbolic.
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