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You are such an enigma.... striking features..deep thinker..made for radio voice...avant garde style...a tenderness in your soul....but you have sad eyes. I hope you feel loved. *Hugs*

I just want to state how invaluable this channel is. There's certainly a dearth of -- at least good -- coverage of these topics, and I'm sure I'll have a lot owed to QC. Thank you all for your discussions and such!

Hello. Would it be possible to hide these vod dumps so that they won't show up in our subscription feeds?

Thanks for the insight during this whole thing.

I love pickles. Not sure about the pickle beer... But I'm intrigued

Welp :(

I would probably be interested in the local politics stream because I used to live there and visit that part of Washington from time to time

There are places in which you show a clear appreciation and advocacy for few principles of civic republicanism but dont name them as part of such beyond a discourse of wider leftism. I suspect that is intentional on your part and if so I wonder why?

holy fuck I love this stream so much

2:48:14 I stopped voting bc they've made it impossible for a person with no money, and is moved every 1-1.5 years, to re-register. IDK know why the system can send me a card saying I'm registered, but not one I can send back for free, to verify I registered online. Or, LOL here in TX, you have to have your ID present to vote WTAF?

2:27:37 I'm of the mind that many People in the US actually are leftists, it's just that they've been propagandized against leftist ideals, very, very effectively by the "system".

I recently took Eco's 14 points list and attempted to match it to specifically to the Dems... and I could only get so far with it, because, as you mention, the power on top is "fuzzy", and abstract. They do a fantastic job with obscuring the truth about themselves.

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Re: online profiles... I go back and forth with my wondering how negative my chosen moniker affects others' perception of my person, or not. Quite a few times now, a person will point it out, literally reacting to it, yet I've noticed that some look past it, once they've followed me for while, and have interacted with me... literally getting to know me. EDIT ALSO: when you mentioned the disparity/unequalness between big accounts reach on twitter, and smaller accounts'... it drove me nuts that when I would jump into a viral tweets comments to spell out how I could get a few thousand dollars that would "fix me", if a bunch of the People who liked and/or commented on the post each gave me one dollar, many many times people would take it that I was asking them to do that for EVERYONE ... NO DIPSHIT, just me. One time... one fucking dollar.

They should have a referendum for compulsory voting in the US, it would be a land slide of 99% for, as the ones against it wouldn’t be bothered to vote 😂

Where will I find your local politics stream, will it be with that title?

Thanks for the stream, this was genuinely (and oddly) comforting <3 And thanks for shouting out Australia's tight and controlled immigration system (and how it still doesn't "work") the discussion of overstaying visas being a thing at all is refreshing, because it's so common and so rarely talked about in discussions of immigration.

Fuck, now this was the mirror I had bith hoped for and dreaded. Thanks for giving me something to think about.

Wait you *know* Cosmatos? I was just reading about Black Rainbow on the Deleuze subreddit, crazy.

I thought this film was pretty on the nose and unoriginal. I prefer Eyes without a face, The Fly, and Titane.

would love to hear your take on terry Gilliams 'Brazil'

I wish you had gone into spoilers and turned my opinion of this film around. Its themes are obvious, but I found them mishandled to such a degree, that it ends up emboldening the tendencies of its audience's experience, that it aims to subvert. The film's weak point imo is its use of body horror, that should work to subvert the objectifying male-gazey portrayal of its female leads, but, as it is framed as spectacle, and really is very fun, more Braindead than Martyrs, would fail to upset a horror fan, and so ends up catering to an audience of people, who enjoy female objectification and over the top funny violence: toxic men.

I don't think I've ever been more hyped to see a movie in cinema when it's going to be available in Grecce in a couple of days from now. The audio and visual aspect seems to play such a pivotal role that it feels like it's made in order to enjoy its unsettling nature on a big screen and speakers. The discourse surrounding it has made it barely possible to avoid pictures with spoilers, but from everything I see I am so captivated by the choice of the environments, and the facial expressions, that I'm pretty sure it's going to be something special, and I almost never get into a piece of media with that much high expectations. I was wondering if you were going to make a video about this movie after the solid documentary reccomendations, and seeing your positive outlook on this makes me even more excited to watch and experience The Substance.

But hasn’t capitalism always existed in one shape or another, ever since we started trading, even before modern day cash was invented, many countries like the Americas, Asia, Africa and Australia used sea Shells as a form of universal currency. In other words capitalism is just trading that has evolved and changed over thousands of years, gradually taking the form that it existence today.

This was wonderful. Great opening especially, the mudfossils guy is a beautiful schizo.

When arguing about rights of books ,i uk at least you can't resale books. Ots due to copyright laws as far as I know

What the best translation of beyond good and evil?, I have the penguin edition translated by hollingdale although I’ve heard hollingdales not the most accurate

The brat shirt goes hard

3:20:57 I was DYING laughing at this

How bout the anxiety to the consumer, at least the ones on tight budgets. I basically have to beg for people to donate twitch subs. I can't afford to keep monthly subscriptions to all these streamers and content producers, youtube or twitch. Its crazy

A thing that came to mind about your talking about "designers being exploited exponentially", look into the guy who designed the blue LED, what that made possible and how much he was "compensated" for that. It's the *perfect* example to argue your case.

Loved this chat!

This is very interesting. I've thought for a while now that Rene Gerard's mimetic conception of desire maps on really well to sexual selection as the driving force behind the fundamentally contextual nature of what humans consider "enough" status, stuff, wealth, etc. We can never overcome consumerism until we break that fundamentally biological resetting of what is "enough" in the pursuit of rank for mates.

to Brooks or not to Brooks---that is the question

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Is there a difference between desire and drive in deleuze and guattaris thinking? The way I understand it is that when a baby is born it has no wants its just kinda freaking out. There's no "self" and no real concept of things and objects. Theres also no concept of what we'd consider "externality" and "internality". When it's presented with the nipple it by chance happens to gasp in which cause the infant to experience pleasurable stimuli. Over time with repeated exposure to language it by necessity develops the idea of "I" as a way of expressing desire, because one cannot need something unless there is one to need (I think??). I.E when the mother says "oh you must be hungry" the infant associates the "hungry" with the drive towards the pleasurable stimuli (I could be stuck in Freudian thinking here). And because the "hungry", experienced as an attack by an outside force, has to have something to act upon, the baby reasons the "you" must be a "I": an individual being that is seperate from the rest of the world. I realise having written this down I have imported a ton from outside your argument. I have some very general knowledge in Kristeva and Klien so the difficulty is probably from distingushing my understanding of their concepts to this. Basically I think what I'm asking is: is desire for Deluze the stimuli in and of itself? Or the movement towards stimuli?(Which is similar to what I would consider drive: I;E the will of an agent towards somekind of biological necessity like a drive to food or a drive to breathing) Im probably waaaay out of my depth with this one. Will probably have to go back to Hume (and/or probably further) then come back to this video to fully get it. As im not even fully convinced i understood what Freud was yapping about now. Still very intresting though. (^:

put simply, lacan divides 3 logical moments in the movement from need to demand (decoding crying, naming), the beyond of demand bing desire yet the horizon of demand is demand of love, leaving need empty, it was just a placeholder. and Lacan does talk about "want" or rather, longing for, demand; desire cannot be said simply through interpretation, only elliptically for being this beyond, so yes, it breathes, Ça Parle, Ça Pense. Lacan. Unlike freud's naive physicalism and biologicism his theory took post-1920, Lacan from the get go goes in a contrary direction: epistemically and increasingly gets more irritated to the idea of uncounscious as being that, non conscious representation, Freud's slipperage, tumble: by calling it the discourse of the other it's always on the surface. Ultimately he, wanting to try and make a couple students think out of the box, his approach to teaching and overall evaluation as early as 68 he called it his failure

Thank you for giving me a framework of understanding so that I could contextualize some other concepts that I have come across. I often talk about formative media and formative life experiences growing up, and how those core memories/experiences are imprinted (as trauma or nostalgia haha) to create a lifelong passion around the concepts, even as I grow beyond the initial media/experience. I no longer listen to spice girls, but to this day, I love when I can recognize spice girls in the things I discover in the day to day. It's the like calls to like experience. There is a psychologist who studies trauma and psychosis (I'll add links in the reply), who describes ptsd and nostalgia as a means to integrate a self-destructive experience into a new understanding and construction of the self. His argument is that this is why avoidance of processing these experiences will only continue to deteriorate the sense of self (I.e. flashbacks are the minds attempt to re-integrate those experiences and process the trauma, so the record keeps skipping until it overcomes). Your video also reminded me of this concept of Foccault that I came across called a "Heterotopia" It's not a utopia (good) or dystopia (bad), but countless shades of grey where the societal structures are as alive and perpetually changing as the people who inhabit it. It is not "I think, therefore I am" but instead "I am, because we are." In this heterotopia, everything is a mirror and a foil to ourselves. It is a living dialogue to better know ourselves and seek to find ourselves in others. I was an edgelord Athiest for many years but now think of myself as a spiritualist, because I think there is so much enjoyment in reading parabolic stories of magic and inexplicable phenomenons through a lens of magical realism. As I was listening to you talk about Darwin and the Mudfossil guy, I kept thinking. This is why I love Magical Realism, Esotericism, and Folklore. Society right now is very post-positivist in our understanding of the natural world. But because of that, we don't have passion or curiosity toward the things we do not understand, and we prioritize the quantitative over the qualitative. But Magical realism begins with that confirmation-bias of being able to readily point to an affect (Magic) as being self-evident, and then interrogating the nature of that magic to a more objective structure. (I.e. Neitches will to power becomes "the secret" and the cliche magic of believing in yourself). Likewise the concept of an Egregore is similar to a socially constructed power. Like Zizeks concept of violence, it exists as an abstract social power that ultimately self-perpetuates into a real and tangible force. But that force is and will always be a reflection of the values and faith of people. Kramer is the only character I know from Seinfield, but I love It's always Sunny in Philladelphia, which is if you made the entire cast out of Kramer-esque characters with enough money to bankroll every terrible idea ahah. Their character arcs are flat, which is interesting to think about with this video. Kramer doesn't change, but everyone changes around him. In this way, he affects change by just holding a mirror to challenge the comfort of everyone else.

It's not really clear if desire is a noun or a verb or both. I thought the Seinfeld stuff was the best bit (I've never seen a single episode) - Kramer not wanting anything, just feeling desire without cognizing. I felt I was starting to understand during that part.

I may be an idiot but here's an attempt at understanding. So want is what happens when we recognize a desire to e.g. eat someone's doritos and stop ourselves from just Kramer-grabbing it and eating it? Want is desire in stasis, held back from taking control of our motor system?

the psychoanalysis of Seinfeld is enlightening, plus 'we don't want what we think we desire', we simply want to desire.

Great work, Brooks. I‘m loving these videos!

Oh gosh, this one really confused me. OK. So if I understand correctly, desire refers to passions, goals. And wants refer to the emergent process that occurs, however it occurs. I hesitate to go on further in case I misunderstand, but, UA-cam doesn't give an easy way to have interpersonal discourse, so I will continue my best. Instead of understanding the world as a series of driving forces that act onto us, we instead should see the properties behind those forces and how these properties coalesce? If I understand the mirror example, the vibe I got from that, was that instead of seeing 'ourself' in the mirror, realise that is not 'ourself', but just a reflection of the body, and nothing more. Given that desire is sexual and everywhere, the 'desire' here is 'to look good' in the mirror, to 'be healthy' or to 'be cute'. But the want is just the fact we chose to go to the mirror to look at our reflection? Is this the right basis to stem outward from? Or have I really bollocksed it up?

Wondering if you have looked early Italian psychoanalyst Assagioli? Wrote a lot about will.

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You cut through the bullshit in a way that feels sublime. Thank you.

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