Empty signifiers cannot be reduced to any concept they name.

Evidence

The name, the signifier which has – to go back to Copjec’s expression – the ‘breast value of the milk’, constitutes an absolute historical singularity, because there is no conceptual correlate of what it refers to. — Ernesto Laclau, On Populist Reason, 361

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Naming heterogeneous demands performatively creates their unity. — Ernesto Laclau, On Populist Reason, 361; Counter-hegemony works by reattaching emptied signifiers to their original meanings. — Ernesto Laclau, On Populist Reason, 367; The non-identical can only be approached through concepts without being subsumed — Dirk Braunstein, Adorno’s Critique of Political Economy, 1242

Broader Connections

• The non-identical can only be approached through concepts without being subsumed #complicates (0.82) — Dirk Braunstein, Adorno’s Critique of Political Economy, 1242