Mimetic Desire

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0:00 Intro

1:22 What is mimetic rivalry? memtic desire.

2:48 Mimicry as an internal set of neurosis.

5:05 What we want is the attention and control that someone else wanted first.

7:14 If somebody else wants something, our survival depends on us getting to it first.

9:47 Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet.

11:28 Accelerationism is a means to break out of the deadlock of capitalism.

12:56 All of our focus is now embodied in winning the object.

14:46 If the system is good enough, it will disperse the energies.

16:37 How capitalism fits into all of this.