Tag: Deleuze
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Riding the Tiger of Liberalism:
Imagine liberalism, not as a linear progression, but as a subterranean network of desiring forces. Imagine liberalism, not as a grand narrative of Western superiority, but as a twisting, subterranean rhizome. This warped root system burrows through history, finding purchase in the fertile grounds of burgeoning empires. Western liberalism isn’t the dominant root; it’s just…
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Hype as Lacanian Object-Petit a
and Deleuzian Desiring-Machines: A Descent into the Abyss of Unfulfilled Want https://warpcast.com/bravojohnson/0x4ff768b1 Lacanian Lens: The Object-Petit a and the Fantasy of Completion Hype functioning as a form of grief, resonates with Lacanian psychoanalysis. Consider the object-petit a, that elusive object of desire forever out of reach. Hype, with its manufactured intensity, promises a glimpse of this object,…
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Protocols
Product: The iPhone – a chrome embryo pulsating with data streams. A meat puppet for the digitized masses. Market: A hungry maw, a million twitching fingers yearning for connection, porn, and the simulacrum of social interaction. A Deleuzian rhizome of desire, burrowing into every pocket, every purse. Fit? A perfect symbiosis, a feedback loop of want and fulfillment.…
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All Writing Is Re-writing
The idea that all writing is rewriting is a popular adage in the world of literature, and it certainly holds true for historians. As they piece together the events of the past and create narratives that make sense of it all, historians are in effect re-writing the past in a way that helps us better…
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Up the Hill Backwards
Ticketmaster and the Fossilization of Rock ’n’ Roll: How the Music Industry Became a Bad Museum Exhibit If you want to see what happens when art becomes embalmed, my friend, look no further than Ticketmasters—the corporate leviathan slithering under every stadium and clawing every ticket stub in America. Picture it: millions of dusty-eyed fans waiting…