Vanishing Mediator

With the day hitting up quantity and the noting of the withness in body (via Laurie Anderson, from AN Whitehead) that are Social Sciences' quests we may say, I decided to glance at this VM notion.

Interesting that Zizek has the jouissance and alt-right link picked up from Lacan that is noted by Copjec.
(Nevermind the Boethius)
Jameson's thing, I know not how Zizek takes it, is naive. I good dose of Annales is needed. I won't elaborate, we have always been modern. What Zizek may get is the jouissance, though it is draw up by the quantity of all else (all the alt-right are excited by, they'll never stop...) exceeding and isolating the probable minority they are. Many just tag along, but they have to remain a minority so needs must, as was obvious with Trump in power.

So if there is something mediating is that isolated, near exposure, minoritisation. The jouissance is a mere vector, the full matrices or infection is total absence of identity, a paranoia that cannot even carry a subject. You'll note the garbled speeches - sometimes they achieve a tremulous rational in written form, quite absent in their speech.

So what mediates is a sense of being a quantity qua quantity? It never was vanishing. That's only an invention of Jameson, trying to save his theorising.

I guess the point is jouissance needs a rethink. The entire fort-da misses a point, and Lacan dissolved mirror stage himself.

I didn't set out to re-do Lacan, I must remind you.

As so often, only some notes.