unaware of the mechanical causality which actually does the work—on the contrary, the quasi-cause fills in the gap of corporeal causality. In this strict sense, and insofar as the Event is the Sense-Event, the quasi-cause is non-sense as inherent to Sense.” 9 The background economy, if you will, does not itself exist without being posited by, precisely, the fetishistic, swerved, or ungrounded investments in “pieces” of it. In a world which continues to be dominated by finance capital and the fetishistic utopias of “little” consumerist investments, Žižek’s diagnosis is both compelling and an important supplement to the kind of (late) Althusserian Paulinism I describe in Breton.