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Todd McGowan, "Enjoyment Right & Left" (Sublation Media, 2022)

New Books in Critical Theory

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The Leftist Project of Enjoyment

The right has a more developed idea of enjoyment and knows how to mobilize it. The left is just all of everyone's excluded, which is parasitical on the leftist version so even though the right has it seems to be doing better in terms of enjoying it. One of the ideas in the book is that all all enjoyment is the enjoyment of non belonging and on the right it's just parasitically too.

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