1.8.2023
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Waste
In preparation for the return of “The Transcendental Deduction of Oil” series. I have returned my attention to Bataille. If you are unfamiliar with the series, I invite you to check it out the series.
To summarize, the series focused on the role of libidinal intensities, primarily those produced by matter itself towards Nirvana (Death Drive) are the primary driver of the motor of modernity: Capitalism.
As the world rapidly accelerates towards techno-capital singularity, the primary onto-libidinal fuel is the excrement of the middle east, Oil. By analyzing the divergent flows of this necrotic demon, we can observe a fluctuation of time intensities.
While temporal intensities were the primary focus in the previous iteration of the series, this time around, we will be focusing on the Spacial Dimension, as a concrete and distinct category.
The main issue to address is the permanence of this “base” matter that is proliferating itself into all of our ecological systems in the form of “microplastics.” This irreducible form of matter has finally reached its “equilibrium,” but its irreducibility has not changed its hyperactivity in this transcendental deduction of Oil.
Please, make sure to subscribe or share with a friend, as the series will kick off very soon!
-C.N
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“Love then screams in my own throat; I am the Jesuve, the filthy parody of the torrid and blinding sun. I want to have my throat slashed while violating the girl to whom I will have been able to say: you are the night.” -George Bataille
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-C.N.