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Matthew Flisfeder - Algorithmic Desire

Machinic Unconscious Happy Hour

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The Demise of Symbolic Efficiency

I think there's a few overlapping threads when we're talking about this notion of a demise of symbolic or I think Dean refers to a decline of symbolic efficiency beginning in her book publicity secret. In some ways what you have is the Lacanians symbolic symbolic order as the field of language meaning understanding representation. There's something that takes place in postmodernism and culturally or post modernity historicallyYou can kind of get it in a very famous statement from Jean-Francois Liotard to understand postmodernism as an incredulity towards grand narrative or big narrative history.

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