book
On Populist Reason
Laclau, Ernesto. On Populist Reason. London: Verso, 2005.
Why this matters here
Laclau’s On Populist Reason theorizes empty or floating signifiers and chains of equivalence through which a name can gather heterogeneous demands into a “people” without requiring identical concrete wants. When Interpretation No Longer Matters invokes that lens lightly for Peronism as an identity-full, program-thin container—not as primary archival proof of Argentine events. The source is a conceptual account of populist signification; the book asks what happens when belonging outruns platform and contradiction no longer reopens allegiance.
