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Samo Tomsic - The Labour of Enjoyment: Towards a Critique of Libidinal Economy

Machinic Unconscious Happy Hour

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Is the Anti-Oedipus Really About Desiring More, More Alienation?

The idea of homo economic, which is now ideologically dead since 2008 at the latest, it doesn't have any ideological efficiency. The point of this theory of human subjectivity was not to actualize it, but to enforce it socially as a non actualizable, non realizable ideal that generates precisely more alienation. I think we cannot be like really solidarity with an emancipatory struggle or engage in an emancipatories struggle if we do not precisely embrace some sort of shared negativity.

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