Random Variable

Adam Kotsko rightly takes me to task for misusing Lacanian terminology on my earlier Saddam posting. However, I think I was making sense in my mind. In that to everyone outside, the US appears as this paternal figure who we’re always trying to impress. I’ll shut up now.

In related news, Slavoj writes in the Guardian on the blogosphere, and for full ironic effect, Comment Is Free stick it on their blog:

And the same goes for my partners in cyberspace communication. I can never be sure who they are: are they really the way they describe themselves, is there a “real” person at all behind a screen persona, is the screen persona a mask for a multiplicity of people, or am I simply dealing with a digitised entity which does not stand for any “real” person?