[D66] To-tsi

[A.O.]

surminus-theory

http://theoryleaks.org/marx-lacan-surplus-enjoyment-surplus-value-surplus-knowledge-slavoj-zizek/

Think about Brecht’s Me Ti which, in its retelling of the history of 
revolutionary movements in Europe, transposes them into an imaginary 
China (Trotsky becomes To-tsi, etc.): our re-translation of 
pseudo-Chinese names back into their European original (“Aha, To-tsi is 
Trotsky!”) makes the text much more pleasurable – just imagine how much 
Me-Ti would have lost if it were to be written as a direct report on 
European history. Or – the most elementary example – how much a process 
of seduction gains with its intricate innuendos, false denials, etc.: 
these detours are not just cultural complications or sublimations 
circulating around some hardcore Real – this hardcore Real is 
retroactively constituted through secondary detours, “in itself” it 
remains a fiction.