Cruel Optimism: Affect Theory and the Structure of Feeling
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The Role of the Death Drive on the Right
I've for a long time argued that there's this sort of there seems to be the subconscious death drive on the American right. I think mainstreaming of conspiratorialism like the self-defeating anti-mask and anti-vax positions, continued climate denialism. The person pursuing the death drive does not know that they are pursuing death but it can be seen in around some of the pro-vax stuff.
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