The Dig: Ayn Rand's Optimistic Cruelty with Lisa Duggan
Jacobin Radio
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The Affective Register of Ayn Rand's Ideas
This chapter examines the affective register of Ayn Rand's ideas and how they operate to legitimize and reproduce the dominant order. The speaker explores the role of meanness and greed as the unifying threads in Rand's ideology, and how her work recruits individuals through their feelings and fantasies.
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