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it's time to architect a shiny new echo chamber
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Freud, channeling Nietzsche, on the "happiness of quietness". This is the idea from the book I find myself returning to most, in terms of how I've viewed my own life. (sorry for page skip, it's a spiel about intoxication)pic.twitter.com/T2JKIg4Qx9
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(I don't plan to write any reviews or give any ratings. If you want my opinion, feel free to ask. But it's subject to change over the months and years.)
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Keeping track of my library, feel free to friend me. "Want to Read" = it's on my shelf and I haven't read it yet.http://Goodreads.com/simpolism
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Two more pages from Civilization and its Discontents. The former, on the increase of guilt inherent in the expansion of civilization (+ Goethe stanza). The latter, asking whether an entire culture can be neurotic. Might this be relevant to the present?pic.twitter.com/YqGkS2SW8Q
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Last few pages, on ethics: Freud analogizes the development of the individual with the development of a community, and posits a "communal superego". He uses this to discuss ethics (+ gets in a bonus dig on the socialists despite a point of agreement).pic.twitter.com/DOzx2kywKE
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(should have said this earlier, but remember that the pages above, from Civilization and its Discontents, were written in 1930)
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Anyway, Freud concludes the chapter by dunking on the primitivists (again) and also by noting that perhaps some of the problems with multicultural America are beyond resolution (+ epic bonus dunk on "American methods").pic.twitter.com/2Z3KfXrhia
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Compare the results of aggression in a world of sexual freedom with the ominous next paragraph: what will the Soviets do "after they have wiped out their bourgeois"?pic.twitter.com/9ctOggryxr
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I like Freud's juxtaposition of "complete freedom of sexual life" as still burdened by aggression, with the curious footnote about how nature has created "injustices against which there is no remedy".
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tl;dr: - aggressiveness is part of man's nature (not created by private property) - private property is one significant outlet for aggression - abolishing private property will reroute the aggression toward sexual ends (and relationship drama has killed many a person)
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Curious as to what Freud thought of communism? Wonder no more.pic.twitter.com/rKxU73Riza
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Visited a rare books store and found the text that coined the word "autism" (Eugen Bleuler - "Dementia Praecox", 1911). It was $75, too much for me, but I discreetly snapped photos of the relevant pages (which I'd previously tried to find online and failed; German only). Enjoy!pic.twitter.com/obJSbG7MA1
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(Once I read thru Lacan's seminar on the 4 discourses, I will write up some sort of summary. Tough to wrap one's head around at first, but an incredibly powerful toolkit for interpreting the structure of discourses. I want to share it. The Zizek piece is difficult without it.)
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No obvious quote for the final discussion of desire vs drive, the cut vs the hole, the goal to attain the object vs the goal of endless circulation. But it's illuminating; Lacan's construction of the drive in Seminar XI is a bit... abstruse.
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Brilliant: "the fact that the upper level of Lacan's formula of the analyst's discourse is the same as his formula of perversion (a-$) opens up a possibility of reading the entire formula of the analyst's discourse also as a formula of the perverse social link..."
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On racial/random(/incel?) violence: "[We should assert] the speculative identity of these "useless" and "excessive" outbursts of violent immediacy, which display nothing but a pure and naked ("non-sublimated") hatred of the Otherness, with the global reflexivization of society."
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"We should not [reduce] capitalism to a mere form of appearance of the more fundamental ontological attitude of technological domination; we should rather insist... that the capitalist logic of integrating the surplus into the functioning of the system is the fundamental fact."
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Excellent piece by Zizek: on the pairing of "expert-rule bureaucracy" with the "the hysterical capitalist subjectivity that reproduces itself through permanent self-revolutionizing", outbursts of violence, perversion and the drive. https://www.lacan.com/zizfour.htm
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I like Grothendieck’s use of the term “yoga” for “a collection of principles and techniques that one needs to wrap one's head around completely, after which one will be able to use them almost effortlessly” (https://mathoverflow.net/questions/64071/what-does-the-term-yoga-mean-in-mathematics …). Forcing artificial intuition.pic.twitter.com/RxIHTJuyPD
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