Alain Badiou has argued that we live in a social space which is increasingly experienced as ‘worldless’: in such a space, the only form protest can take is meaningless violence. Perhaps this is one of the main dangers of capitalism: although by virtue of being global it encompasses the whole world, it sustains a ‘worldless’ ideological constellation in which people are deprived of their ways of locating meaning.
Žižek “Shoplifters of the World Unite”
Gotta keep track of the Hegelian lexicon, but a very interesting take on the riots. A lot of resonance out of it — the quote is obviously just gratuitous for my semiotics fetish.
"Our hero shrieked and clutched at his head. Alas! This was what he had known for a long time would happen!" -Dostoevsky, closing lines of The Double
