Signifier Fetishism and Biopolitics: Production of Subjectivity in Reading Activity

Penghan Zhang

doi:10.47297/wspctWSP2515-470212.20240802

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Signifier Fetishism and Biopolitics: Production of Subjectivity in Reading Activity

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Signifier Fetishism and Biopolitics: Production of Subjectivity in Reading Activity
Signifier Fetishism and Biopolitics: Production of Subjectivity in Reading Activity
Department of Chinese Language and Literature, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China
2024年8卷第2期页码：110-120
纸质出版日期：2024-12-11
DOI：10.47297/wspctWSP2515-470212.20240802
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(2024). Signifier Fetishism and Biopolitics: Production of Subjectivity in Reading Activity. 批评理论（英文版）, 8(2), 110-120.

Zhang Penghan.Signifier Fetishism and Biopolitics: Production of Subjectivity in Reading Activity[J].Critical Theory,2024,08(02):110-120.
(2024). Signifier Fetishism and Biopolitics: Production of Subjectivity in Reading Activity. 批评理论（英文版）, 8(2), 110-120. DOI： 10.47297/wspctWSP2515-470212.20240802.

Zhang Penghan.Signifier Fetishism and Biopolitics: Production of Subjectivity in Reading Activity[J].Critical Theory,2024,08(02):110-120. DOI： 10.47297/wspctWSP2515-470212.20240802.

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Truth and

Method

Gadamer attempts to articulate the process of understanding as a less subjective event

but presupposes a certain subjectivity with his construction of a textual ethics. Such program of de-subjectivation in the notion of reading also has its malaise in its (post-)structuralist variants

especially the idea of self-deriving texts

which I will term as signifier fetishism and describe in its three modalities. Baudrillard's critique of notions of use value and need exemplifies that signifier fetishism ignores the productivity in the realization of use value. By adapting Paolo Virno's arguments on immaterial labor

reading activity can be considered as consumption with its productivity mostly beyond dominant capitalist productive relations. Referring to the notion of biopolitical production from Hardt and Negri

a tentative characterization of reading as production will convert the issue of hermeneutic subject into the one of becoming-subjectivity.

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