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Georges Bataille, Sustainability, and Climate Change with Stuart Kendall and Acid Horizon (Part 2)

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The Idea of Planning Uselessness

Batai is a very useful analog when thinking about resisting this total discursive system which consumes the imagination and essentially removes the presence of the future from the now. And particularly when it comes to the idea of the end times or rather the current global boiling as the UN's actually general entity Antonio Guzieras puts it, for Batai it is this now. So I was asked sort of the idea of how does planned obsolescence factor into an idea of a systematising or embracing of the useless without makingplanned obsolescence. But again, it's not about eliminating growth entirely or about achieving a steady state. There is no steady state. The steady state is change

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