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Renata Salecl - A Passion for Ignorance

Machinic Unconscious Happy Hour

CHAPTER

Are You Not Recognized?

We need to understand that people are retreating into the private world or the fantasy world, which brings certain kinds of satisfaction. People find a kind of a compensation for all the pain that they are suffering from and others are observing in the actual world. And we also, of course, need to understand the logic of functioning of the neoliberal capitalism with the cruelty against the workers has contributed vastly to this feeling of burnout. I would say this is very, you know, executed the logic for why something like superhero films are so prevalent or popular in our current moment. It allows you to feel like to take on that individual power and strength and ability.

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