” Žižek proceeds to connect this to a certain Lacanian version of the death drive…: insofar as the denaturalization of nature brought about by the sociocultural overwriting of vital being involves the colonization of the living (i.e., organic body) by the dead (i.e., the symbolic order), one could say, following Hegel and Lacan, that human life is lived under the dominance of lifeless set of cadaverizing signifiers (for instance, memes as mental parasites). Infection by virulent strains of virus-like signifiers is contracted by the individual in the process of struggling to gentrify and mask the abyssal darkness of the void of $ subsisting within substance.”
Adrian Johnston, Žižek’s Ontology p. 188
