08: Political Economy, Libidinal Economy
Ordinary Unhappiness
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The Black Jackabins and the Haitian Revolution
There are two ways of thinking about political life. Political economy is the history of borders of things that can be mapped or more broadly speaking stuff that can be numbered right at quanta numbers. libidinal economy deals with subjective feelings in qualia and it's a system that has certain principles because it's not reducible to politically speaking but also this is another half of what we might call economics. We're gonna think about how much psychic investment we have into the maintenance of normalcy and help, as well as our anxieties about what might happen to you if you step out line etc.
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