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Todd McGowan, "Enjoyment Right & Left" (Sublation Media, 2022)

New Books in Critical Theory

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The Right of Storm Enjoyment

Cody: Trump serves as this figure of enjoyment because he is clearly, you know, being disruptive. And so there's an enjoyment in that absolutely I think that's what we see in these right wing figures around the world like Modi and India, Erdogan and Turkey,. They just rubs the liberal consensus and that gives us something to read about. So could you kind of talk about occupying the change, the contradiction and sort of maybe a little bit why you think? Cevallos: We're free because we're contradictory we're free because the society society is contradictory. It also means that the social order doesn't have the last word on you.

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