Published on 12, July, 2020
There's so much going on. Artists, philosophers, poets, builders, plumbers, psychiatrists, police officers, judges, lawyers, mentally ill people living a life on benefits, kings, queens, emperors, dictators, oil tanker drivers, shop assistants, business tycoons, pilots, astronauts, moderators, care workers, job centre advisors, retired people, babies, ballet dancers, street dancers, illegal immigrants, legal immigrants, racist people, transexuals, lesbians, gays, asexual people, porn stars, film directors, gangsters, newspaper editors, reporters, cameramen, cleaners, chefs, writers, musicians, celebrities who are famous just for being good looking and charismatic, university lecturers, right wing people, left wing people, centrists, revolutionaries, climate protesters, climate change deniers, knitters, terrorists, spies, soldiers, sailors, prostitutes, cult leaders, bishops and rabbis and ayatollahs, psychics, sceptics, alcoholics, people who fast for 30 days, bodybuilders, personal trainers, clowns, ringmasters, acrobatic performers, mime artists, security officers, fascists, communists, fishermen, miners, waiters, comedians, actors, strippers, plastic surgery specialists, travelling salesmen, inteernet cabling installers, binmen, faulty item repairers, factory workers, Olympic athletes, footballers, hairdressers, electricians, petty thieves, ambulance drivers, firemen, members of parliament, competitive poker players, experts in trading stocks and sharees, gardeners, fashion designers, estate agents, funeral directors, antique dealers, collectors of memorabilia, librarians, nuclear power station managers, bus drivers.
Do you ever wonder what it's all about? What exactly is the end goal? Who's pulling the strings?
Looks like you could handle Deleuze and Guattari's Anti-Oedipus x
I've heard of that on a random video. Very dense, it's own jargon and terminology. Somebody was TRYING to explain it. Coherently. They did try
Basically it bridges past psychoanalytic and economic theories to present, explains what (IMO) is wrong with the world, summarises 2 more fundamental ways of experiencing the world - which, if they'd had the remaining pieces in neurology, they may have expressed autistic and neurotic. While they do conceive of new concepts and use a great deal of analogy, borrowing from maths, geography, physics, aesthetic and so on, they also follow the structure of logic and use well-known concepts in psychoanalysis. But basically, the neurotic is driven by this sense of guilt and indebtedness toward and created for one another. So a key motivation is keeping that guilt hidden, or empathising with others. This is how much of the world operates and economic systems are created from this.
I read this while having a full-time job, so once a week over a few years. No regrets! And I've been studying both their works ever since.