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Psychoanalysis and Aesthetics

Why Theory

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You Can't Accumulate Subtraction, Right?

The capitalist logic is so dominant and so, like, psychically alluring. And then that gets put into this, I don't know, social media matrix,. Of where, you know, continually being unimpressed or very impressed in a certain way actually does end up having, like, a literal capitalist value. Right. So we sort of miss this edge to the work of art that is, that actually cuts against an accumulative structure. Right. Mm-hmm. Can we say that, like, what is, can we think about a canon of great works of art? A psychoanalytic canon, that's pretty fun.

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