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Why Theory

CHAPTER

The Fundamental Gesture of Capitalism and Desire

I think that the fundamental gesture of capitalism is to turn a lacking subject into an indebted person. And, and that trajectory is, uh, begins in the psyche. Would you say that's sort of your point? Yeah, absolutely. I would even add that it, I think it provides respite, right? Like the, like, we think of being in debt as a horrible thing. That's why there's a debt collective like that,. or debt initiative, like that attempts to like deal with the problem ofdebt. Well, yeah, that's really interesting because he doesn't generate his own thing from that insight.

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