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Renata Salecl - A Passion for Ignorance

Machinic Unconscious Happy Hour

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The Fantasy Retreat

I wanted to bring it back to this idea of the apathy or burnout that you brought up because this is something that I feel a lot. Even the real experience, you know, just thinking about people that share photographs on Instagram because of the filters and so forth. And when I start to project that, it almost makes me sick that there's so much suffering that I'm powerless to do anything about. So that the fantasy retreat is a way of it is like, I want to remain ignorant of this suffering so that I can just live my life without.

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