Borges Chinese classification of dogs

As told 5

“the last item is all dogs who are not included in this classification”
1:36:51 Figures of Post-Humanity2018-11-07 · 1:54:00

“all the dogs which are not included in this list. That's the structural logic: that you how should I put it there must be a standing-in within a structure of what is not included in the structure.”
1:04:25 Slavoj Žižek — On G.W.F. Hegel, Lecture 2 [Remaster]2009-08 · 2:36:06

“at the end all the dogs who are not included in this list. That's the structural logic. There must be a stand-in within a structure of what is not included in the structure.”
1:04:24 The Reflection of Life in Hegel2009 · 2:11:29

What it carries

one story, many jobs: the ideas this anecdote is deployed to argue, one tally mark per use (an idea page shows the same relation from the other end, as its shelf of stories)

contents · one story, 3 jobsuses

symptomal point ×1 universality for itself ×1 symbolic order ×1

Its cast and sources

populated by

Yevgeny Yevtushenko2 Anna Netrebko2 Lynn Margulis2 Pierre-Joseph Proudhon2 Georg Cantor2 Dean MacCannell2 Rider Haggard1 Christina1

alongside works

The Order of Things4 Sex, Lies, and Videotape2 Pentimento2 L'Amour et l'Occident (Love in the West)2 The Illusion of the Others (Die Illusion der Anderen)2 Falling in Love2 She2 The Silence2

Told together with

33% Anna Netrebko's Name 2 shared talks 33% Cindy Crawford beats Claudia Schiffer because of her mole 2 shared talks 29% Hegel on death penalty as respect for the criminal 2 shared talks 22% Asiatic Mode of Production 2 shared talks 18% The Wolfman Case 2 shared talks 17% Jaws shark as ideological condensation 2 shared talks

Every retelling 5

1:36:51 Figures of Post-Humanity2018-11-07 · 1:54:00

Borges (cited by Foucault at the start of The Order of Things) proposes a Chinese encyclopedia classifying animals, the last category being 'all those not included in this classification.' Lévi-Strauss uses this to show that every symbolic system needs a paradoxical stand-in for its own excluded., illustrating paradox of universality,masculine totalizing exception,symbolic classification

1:04:25 Slavoj Žižek — On G.W.F. Hegel, Lecture 2 [Remaster]2009-08 · 2:36:06

Žižek cites Foucault’s reference to Borges’ fictional Chinese encyclopedia, which includes a category for 'all the dogs which are not included in this list,' illustrating structural reflexivity., illustrating hegel-dialectics,ideology

1:04:24 The Reflection of Life in Hegel2009 · 2:11:29

Žižek invokes the Borges/Foucault classification that ends with 'dogs not included in this list,' to illustrate that every structure must include a stand-in for what it excludes, the symptomal reflexive element., illustrating symptomal torsion,reflexivity of structure

33:25 Slavoj Žižek: Should We Grasp AI Not Only as Substance But Also as Subject? - May 22, 20262026-05-22 · 1:19:04

Foucault cites Borges's absurd taxonomy of dogs (big, fat, belonging to the emperor, etc., ending with 'dogs not included in this classification') to illustrate how the symbolic order always requires an element that is the remainder of a remainder, applied by Žižek to the asiatic mode of production as a negative container., illustrating master signifier as empty signifier,asiatic mode of production,symbolic order and its outside

52:30 Racial Enjoyments2016-11 · 1:50:03

Foucault (via Borges) lists a nonsensical taxonomy of dogs that ends with 'all dogs not included in this list', Žižek uses this to argue that every classification must include a paradoxical element that marks its own exterior, and applies this to the LGBT+ 'plus'., illustrating classification and its constitutive exception,LGBT+ identity categories