No. 16 (2015): Work and Intellectual History of Ernesto Laclau
Articles

Do the metaphors have a limit? Timeliness, Baroque and Peronismo

Senda Sferco
Instituto de Investigaciones Gino Germani
Categories

Published 2015-12-27

Keywords

  • temporality,
  • Baroque,
  • Peronism,
  • metaphor,
  • political experience

How to Cite

Sferco, Senda. 2015. “Do the Metaphors Have a Limit? Timeliness, Baroque and Peronismo”. Pléyade, no. 16 (December):215-33. https://revistapleyade.cl/index.php/OJS/article/view/139.

Abstract

This article addresses the issue of the temporality of political experience in relation to the production of Laclau’s “empty signifiers”. Starting from an arbitrary and singular analytical bonding, this writing intends to articulate “peronism” and “Baroque” by the similar shapes that seem to take their significant dynamics. It’s a creative similarity that is recovered by the political effects that enables. In this way, the ability to spread and significant meeting both Baroque and of peronism is scrutinized trying to realize the different levels and nuances involved of their significant logics. At the practical level, however, there are huge differences between Baroque and peronism. These dislocations will be put into focus to account for the problems with metaphorizing under the same name different experiences. A wide spectrum of diverse practices comes when we voltage a significant condensate as a metaphor; a large amount of experience temporary, subjective and policies also emerges. From this analytical exercise, a task is imposed: to de-metaphorize the metaphor as way of returning to political its biggest inventiveness force.