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Matthew Flisfeder - Algorithmic Desire

Machinic Unconscious Happy Hour

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The Demise of the Big Other on Social Media Platforms

In post-modern conditions we've all become sort of realist capitalist realists if you want to use the Mark Fisher term in the sense that we're not really duped by ideology. The problem for us is that ideologically we continue to act as if it did exist because it's one of the ways in which our access to our enjoyment via the resistance against some kind of authority can be procured. We are all willing back into existence the form of the big other on social media platforms so just to and you asked it seems like a small question you asked a very big question so i don't want to get that point no  i'm sorry because i i know i go i go

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