Abstract

Postmodern philosophers may flirt with pragmatics, but they remain trapped within a structuralist conception of speech and language, which prevents them from articulating subjective facts to the formations of the unconscious, to the realm of aesthetics and micropolitics. One should start again from the basic fact that concrete social devices deal with much more than mere linguistic performance : they are made up of ethological and ecological dimensions, of semiotic, economic, aesthetic components, of bodily fantasies irreducible to linguistic semiology, displaying a multitude of disembodied universes of reference, which do not easily fit within the coordinates of our ruling empiricism