Claude Levi-Strauss used “floating signifier” to refer to terms with meaning only in a given cultural context. Derrida of course would argue that all words are floating signifiers. I’m not sure what ...

Stuart Hall offers an accessible and clarifying analysis of the social construction of race and racial difference He explores how variations in peoples appearances come to be mistaken for essential ...

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In grad school, back in the postmodernism-soaked ’90s, floating signifiers had a moment. The idea behind a floating signifier is that it’s a reference that has broken free of its referent and taken on ...