Hitchcock's corpse in the Ford automobile

As told 3

“They open the door of the car and out drops a corpse. This corpse is the surplus object at its purest, the objective counterpoint to the subject.”
6:23 Marx and Lacan: Surplus-Enjoyment, Surplus-Value, Surplus-Knowledge2016-05-24 · 1:55:33

“They open the door of the car and out drops a corpse... the corpse is the surplus object at its purest.”
42:40 From Surplus-Value to Surplus-Enjoyment2017-02-28 · 2:25:50

“One of them opens the door of the car and out drops a corpse.”
37:45 Populism as a way to disavow social antagonism2017-05-24 · 2:24:54

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

surplus value ×4 objet petit a ×3 Marxist corpse in the Ford car ×1

Its cast and sources

populated by

François Truffaut3 Garret FitzGerald1 Samo Tomšič2 Che Guevara1 Spike Lee1 Mike Davis1 Varlam Shalamov1 Wolfgang Streeck1

alongside works

Les non-dupes errent2 A Plea for Intolerance1 Me-ti: Buch der Wendungen1 L'Ordine Nuovo (journal)1 The Odd One In: On Comedy1 Fifty Shades Darker1 Capitalist Desire (Todd McGowan)1 North by Northwest3

Told together with

29% The abandoned shopping cart in Walmart 2 shared talks 20% Goebbels's Totaler Krieg speech 2 shared talks 18% Darian Leader patient / 'Bed for two please' 2 shared talks 9% Malcolm X and the loss of roots as emancipatory starting point 2 shared talks 7% V for Vendetta morning after 2 shared talks

Every retelling 3

6:23 Marx and Lacan: Surplus-Enjoyment, Surplus-Value, Surplus-Knowledge2016-05-24 · 1:55:33

Hitchcock wanted a scene in North by Northwest where Cary Grant and a factory worker watch a car assembled piece by piece, then open the door, and a corpse falls out. Žižek reads the corpse as the perfect image of surplus value: the surplus object that appears from nowhere through the production process., illustrating surplus value,objet petit a,surplus object

42:40 From Surplus-Value to Surplus-Enjoyment2017-02-28 · 2:25:50

Hitchcock describes to Truffaut a scene he never shot: two men watch a car assembled piece by piece on a Ford production line, then open the door and find a corpse inside. Žižek uses this as the purest image of surplus value / objet petit a: the corpse drops out of nowhere from the production process., illustrating surplus enjoyment,objet petit a,surplus value

37:45 Populism as a way to disavow social antagonism2017-05-24 · 2:24:54

Hitchcock described to Truffaut a scene he never shot: Cary Grant walks the Ford assembly line watching a car being built piece by piece; when complete, a man opens the door and a corpse falls out. Žižek reads the corpse as objet petit a, surplus value that appears from nowhere in the production process., illustrating objet petit a,surplus value,plus-de-jouir,capitalism