In this episode, Mikey and I catch up and shoot the proverbial shit for a bit, then move into a discussion of Baudrillard's interpretation of Bataille's Accursed Share. We unpack the superegoic dimension of how society manages The Accursed Share, touch on why increasingly sophisticated social coordination will not save us from the impending Apocalypse of The Object, and where Baudrillard and Lacan seem to be talking about the same thing; and why that matters.
This was a fun episode to record! I've obviously been a bit absent from the feed for a while, and that will probably remain true for the immediate future, but it's great to have and share conversations like this!
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This is the Substack post about Bataillie where I talk about the Butthole Surfers -
The Accursed Share as Destiny; Desire, Drive, and The Subject
Bataille talks about energy buildup, excess, and transgression in a way that might lead one to think he’s describing a process that is best analogized as Freud’s Pleasure Principal; that’s all fine and well, I have my disagreements, but ultimately I’m concerned with developing a Theory of The Subject that is informed by Bataille just as much as Lacan ra…
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