As we have seen, there is something essentially catachrestical in any precarious stabilization of meaning. Any ‘closure’ is necessarily tropological. This means that those discursive forms that construct a horizon of all possible representation within a certain context, which establish the limits of what is ‘sayable’ are going to be necessarily figurative. They are, as Hans Blumenberg called them, ‘absolute metaphors,’ a gigiantic as if. This closing operation is what I would still call ideological which, in my vocabulary, as should be clear, has not the slightest perjorative connotation.
- Ernesto Laclau, essay entitled "Ideology and Post-Marxism" from 2006
Journal of Political Ideologies
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