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Can we use the signifier virtual” in a similar way that we use the signifier imaginary”

I was listening to an older episode of _The Machinic Unconscious Happy Hour1_ , where Cooper Cherry interviews Andrew Culp (author of Dark Deleuze).

At time code 1:06:00 Culp is talking about desires for commodities and he says something about how they are unliking their virtual or symbolic content, it what it’s able to deliver is always limited.”

When I heard this I pressed pause and thought, Huh. Virtual identifications? Does that work in the same way that imagine identifications works?”

Example:

Would it also make (at least) just as much sense to say…

I have an imaginary identification (attachment to) an identity as a X.

I have a virtual identification (attachment to) an identity as a X.

Do those read the same? Or the same enough? What’s the difference?

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