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Melody - Engels and the Dialectics of Nature

Machinic Unconscious Happy Hour

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Freud's Denaturalization of Sexuality

Sally Kohn: Freud was trying to denaturalize sexuality and other social formations that are taken as givens. She says there's a different sense to nature if we take it that in a certain sense, dialectical nature is denaturalizing. We should be more like our bonobo ancestors than the chimpanzees, she says.Kohn: I'm reminded of our discussion with John Protevi where he looks at some different scientists and discusses like the crocodilian. Is that what you're going? Oh, no, I'm thinking.

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