Machinic Unconscious Happy Hour

Taylor Adkins, @CNoumena, @YAgamben - Wicked Lyotard Pt 2

Jan 9, 2021
Taylor Adkins discusses Jean Francois Lyotard's Libidinal Economy (1974), delving into topics such as the great zero and its association with negativity and nihilism, the relationship between speeding up and intensities, exploring Lyotard's ideas of deterritorialization, the concept of the tensor, exploring consequences of intention in post-phonemic sign systems, counter-transference and the hysteric body, exploring Jordan Peterson's foot fetish explanation, simulation and schizophrenia, the concept of a stopgap and its relation to the Schizo, translation of 'force' and its influence on civilization, the relationship between a pimp and a prostitute, the status of the criminal, capitalism, prostitution, and desire, and complexity and context.
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