"There's No 'Normal' to Return To: Death Drive Nation" - OaD Ep. 160
Owls at Dawn
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The Pleasure Principle
I tend to think of freud as a profoundly capitalist thinker. He's thinking about mallays under a certain stage of capitalism, right? The pleasure principle isn't an essential characteristic of the human like it would be in spinoza or conatus. It's much more particular to the manufacture of desire, right? And maybe this is where i'm laconian, im a little bit more than just purely freudian. Ii, i always see them within the context of the hegemonic logic of capital. So if i desire a new car, it's only in my relation with the branding and with the like, cool pects of the car that make me warr
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