/lit/ - Literature

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Sadie Plant's writings on Baudrillard are shallow and selective. Mark Fisher is more sympathetic than Plant, sure, but follows her in blithely twisting Baudrillard's work into his own image.

All of his work from For a Critique of the Political Economy of the Sign and on, and especially The Mirror of Production and Symbolic Exchange and Death, explicitly critiques the ideas of "desire," "production," "economy," "energy," "posthumanism," "the unconscious," and "materialism" upon which any "libidinal materialism" must rest. He had a thing for Bataille's general economy (though not for long after SE&D), sure, but so did Derrida.

>"To put the theory of the unconscious into question is also to put the theory of Desire into question, in that here, at the level of an entire civilization, it is always simply a matter of a negative phantasm of the rational order. Hence Desire becomes an integral part of our reigning prohibition, its dreamt materiality becomes part of our imaginary. Whether it is dialectically related to its prohibition, as with Oedipus and psychoanalysis, or whether it is exalted in its brute productivity, as in Deleuze and Guattari's Anti-Oedipus, it remains the promise of a savage naturality, the phantasm of an objective, liberatory pulsional energy to be liberated -- a force of desire inherited from the mobile field of revolutions: good old labour force...We must write the 'Mirror of Desire' as we have written 'The Mirror of Production.'"
>SE&D, p137