Cult Fixion

Social discourse is structured by signifiers. After the “great narratives” (Lyotard, 1979) of emancipation that structured the modern society, our new modernity is characterized by their disappearance, making way for the proliferation of smaller narratives, co-extensive with the discourse of communities and cults. These “fixions” (Ronell, 2009) – made up of signifiers structured in an addictive and adhesive fashion - trap the subject in a discursive web that is not subject to symbolic castration.