On Sun, 15 Oct 2000 15:46:58 -0700 (PDT) Dennis R Redmond <dredmond at oregon.uoregon.edu> wrote:
> But there's no such thing as pure desire, of course, just concretely desirous
(or desireable) subjects. Once you abstract desire, you end up with a fantasm
of the credit superstructure (access not to the things themselves, but to the
things which purchase other things), which pushes you over the border of Utopia
into mundane, messy Ideology.
I always pegged the notion of the desire of desire as akin to Adorno's sense of nonidentity... The aim being to brush desire against itself to reveal its constitutive untruth - which is nothing other than the enjoyment of shit.
of passionate attachments, negative dialectics and the enjoyment of symptoms, ken