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Plato's Symposium

Machinic Unconscious Happy Hour

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Alcibiades Is a Tragic Figure

Socrates and Alcibiades are so intimately bound up as though they were those, you know, anatomically combined humans that Zeus had. And this is given the lie. This is shown to again be an ideal and a fantasy. He can't stop past that empirical encounter of the one fascinating,. he gets stuck, he gets fixated, right? The fetish, yeah. Exactly, he gets, which is a kind of perversion if you consider the dietema dialectic.

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