5.2.2022
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When Lyotard stated in Libidinal Economy that: The English unemployed did not have to become workers to survive, they – hang on tight and spit on me – enjoyed the hysterical, masochistic, whatever exhaustion it was of hanging on in the mines in the foundries, in the factories, in hell, they enjoyed it, enjoyed the mad destruction of their organic body which was indeed imposed upon them, they enjoyed the decomposition of their personal identity, the identity that the peasant tradition had constructed for them, enjoyed the dissolutions of their families and villages, and enjoyed the new monstrous anonymity of the suburbs and the pubs in morning and evening. (LE 111”
I want to focus on the text as a great piece of erotica. Not only is Lyotard in a way combative towards (perhaps a poor choice of words on my behalf) D&Gs critique of Metaphysics, ultimately as a critique of politics. Lyotard in many ways is at his closest to the duos (D&G) Work, in LE (Libidinal Economy), but the emphasis Lyotard has on Desire as a structuring force, is exemplified in this text. Lyotard’s line of being “spat on” doesn’t just elicit dissatisfaction from fellow members of the Marxist milieu, but in a way, Lyotards own, sexual desires in a hypertextual way. What I mean by this is that Lyotard criticizes the leftist priestly caste for their position of being amicable with the proletariat despite being Bourgeois, but in this same critique, in Lyotard’s own “Wicked text” we can see textual masochism, by becoming a figure to ostracize or reprimand.
An evil thought to eradicate.
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Being blessed is an epistemic state, not an ontological one.
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“Beauty is desired in order that it may be befouled; not for its own sake, but for the joy brought by the certainty of profaining it.”
― Georges Bataille, Erotism: Death and Sensuality
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