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

Machinic Unconscious Happy Hour

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Environmental Catastrophe

The way that the phrase that kept coming up in my head, thinking about your work that kept circulating was you talk about the parasitism of virtual infinity on finitude. The excessive nature of the drive whereby capitalism becomes a culture of a death drive is what I'm talking about. It very much threatens any conditions of possibility and sustainability that would allow it to live on. That's why you bring up ecological catastrophe, which is kind of where obviously we're headed for not to be too bleak listeners.

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