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Ed Kazarian
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Associate Teaching Professor of Philosophy at Rowan. Teaching Faculty Coordinator for AFT Local 2373. Plays guitar for cats. Remembers the Cold War, the NEA four, and the Hartford Whalers. Opinions my own.
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Never have I enjoyed using the block function on here more. Not even in the cases of Yglesias or Chait.
July 30, 2025 at 12:37 PM
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Been thinking this paragraph from Anti-Oedipus a whole lot in the past few months. Thought about it again today.
When the notion of group fantasy was elaborated in the perspective of institutional analysis-in the works of the team at La Borde Clinic, assembled around Jean Oury-the first task was to show how it differed from individual fantasy. It became evident that group fantasy was inseparable from the "symbolic" articulations that define a social field insofar as it is real, whereas the individual fantasy fitted the whole of this field over "imaginary" givens . If this first distinction is drawn out, we see that the individual fantasy is itself plugged into the existing social field, but apprehends it in the form of imaginary qualities that confer on it a kind of transcendence or immortality under the shelter of which the individual, the ego, plays out its pseudo destiny: what does it matter if I die, says the general, since the Army is immortal? The imaginary dimension of the individual fantasy has a decisive importance over the death instinct, insofar as the immortality conferred on the existing social order carried into the ego all the investments of repression , the phenomena of identification, of "superegoization" and castration, all the resignation-desires (becoming a general ; acquiring low , middle, or high rank), including the resignation to dying in the service of this order, whereas the drive itself is projected onto the outside and turned against the others (death to the foreigner, to those who are not of our own ranks I). The revolutionary pole of group fantasy becomes visible, on the contrary, in the power to experience institutions themselves as mortal , to destroy them or change them accordi ng to the articulations of desire and the social field , by making the death instinct into a veritable institutional creativity. For that is precisely the criterion-at least the formal criterion-that distinguishes the revolutionary institution from the enormous inertia which the law communicates to institutions in an established order. As Nietzsche says ; churche s , armies , States-which of all these dogs wants to die?
July 10, 2025 at 8:41 PM
kazedkaz.bsky.social
Headline writer has a funny way of spelling 'impunity.'
Imagine showing NYTimes headline reading "Chief Justice Roberts Condemns Threats to Judicial Independence"
January 1, 2025 at 5:20 AM
kazedkaz.bsky.social
This reminds me that there is no good reason not to block Chait. Just like Yglesias, he contributes nothing and shouldn't be engaged with at all. So doing that now.
December 19, 2024 at 2:58 PM