Crow posted:Mobi - Regular Expressing Ways
border's ultimatum
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babyfinland posted:
wow thanks, this is perfect, exactly what i was getting at
sosie posted:im the one that uploaded less than nothing to aaaaarg after someone from postgarden sent it to me
thanks sosie
kinch posted:babyfinland posted:wow thanks, this is perfect, exactly what i was getting at
everything you say comes across as horribly sarcastic. im sorry. what did i do wrong
babyfinland posted:kinch posted:babyfinland posted:wow thanks, this is perfect, exactly what i was getting at
everything you say comes across as horribly sarcastic. im sorry. what did i do wrong
no i'm really grateful. i think that's the regular expression. your really cool in my book.
kinch posted:babyfinland posted:kinch posted:babyfinland posted:wow thanks, this is perfect, exactly what i was getting at
everything you say comes across as horribly sarcastic. im sorry. what did i do wrong
no i'm really grateful. i think that's the regular expression. your really cool in my book.
fine whatever. i see how it is
Waving the photographer off, he points in the distance across the Slovenian capital. "Over there, that's a kind of counter-culture establishment – they hate me, I hate them. This is the type of leftists that I hate. Radical leftists whose fathers are all very rich." Most of the other buildings, he adds, are government ministries. "I hate it." Now he's back in the living room, a clinically tidy little sliver of functional space lacking any discernible aesthetic, the only concessions being a poster for the video game Call Of Duty: Black Ops, and a print of Joseph Stalin. Žižek pours Coke Zero into plastic McDonald's cups decorated in Disney merchandising, but when he opens a kitchen cupboard I see that it's full of clothes.
Taken up into this physiologico-emotional complex, the fecal material becomes freighted with significance that utterly outstrips all natural or animal attitudes toward excrement. In accord with a symbolic equivalence already familiar to Freud, the feces become privileged tokens in an exchange of love--excrement as primordial gift. In this way is accomplished a radical "revaluation of all values." By fixing upon what is most naturally worthless, the range of possible objects of human desire is henceforth established as formally infinite, potentially inclusive of even the most abject and revolting content. At the same time, this elevation of excrement to the level of the very index of love will color all subsequent experience of the libidinal bond with a profound ambivalence. In the heart of the love relation is something that may at any moment reveal itself to be repulsive and worthless. Jokes about the sexual function thus become "dirty jokes." Love is perpetually haunted by the deeply rooted suspicion--a reality on the level of the unconscious--that it is "much ado about nothing." Something similar can be said about the way in which the drama of toilet training establishes an ambivalence concerning the entirety of human social life and the institutions that structure and support it. In a very real sense, the human being enters civilized life by way of an unnatural investment of libidinal interest in functioning of its bowels. The edifice of civilization is founded upon the unconscious libidinization of excrement.
EmanuelaOrlandi posted:aeril you still down to do a lets read ulysses thread? that was you right? i have been re-reading it for the 3rd time recently and it really is amazing the depth to which that shit goes, man. it really is a triumph of literature.
yeah i think i'll make a thread sometime this week, im in the middle of it right now too