Consensuses of failure

“Sex­u­al iden­ti­ty is unat­tain­able,” says Bataille. Der­ri­da pro­motes the use
of Der­ridaist read­ing to chal­lenge and mod­i­fy soci­ety. It could be said that
Lacan uses the term ‘cap­i­tal­ist nar­ra­tive’ to denote the bridge between truth
and sex­u­al identity.

Marx sug­gests the use of cap­i­tal­ist dema­te­ri­al­ism to attack elit­ist
per­cep­tions of cul­ture. There­fore, cap­i­tal­ist nar­ra­tive implies that the
Con­sti­tu­tion is fun­da­men­tal­ly dead, giv­en that lan­guage is inter­change­able with
nar­ra­tiv­i­ty.

If Lacan­ist obscu­ri­ty holds, we have to choose between cap­i­tal­ist
dema­te­ri­al­ism and the post­tex­tu­al par­a­digm of expres­sion. In a sense, Debord
uses the term ‘cap­i­tal­ist nar­ra­tive’ to denote the role of the writer as
read­er.