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Constantly searching for an objet a in looks, noises, gazes, from people/objects/TV/information, for a real. But also looking for it in a neurotic way, in that it gives them a certain perverse but also overwhelming pleasure, so that this real is constantly deferred via the virtual, via models and precaution that recreate it in an attempt to experience but also to evade it, and subsequently empty its meaning, or make full its non meaning, so that it is no longer possible to experience unless in a simulated fashion. Acknowledging of alienation in language, of deliberate (or not) construction of identity, a surplus of meaning that escapes them, of hidden diseases that put in question their bodily integratiy, mass psychosis. Fear of death in a baudrillard sense, refusal of its presence and ritualistic dimension in prior societies, deliberate foreclosure of its reality (also in a Bataille sense!) Lacan “everything foreclosed in the symbolic (reality) returns in the real (real)), thus everything is pervaded with the foreboding of death, and because the death life oposition is undermined/evaded death conquers life, its models of simulation and prevention infiltrate its core, a culture that doesn’t speak of death: a death obsessed culture, sterile because it evades it, and all the symbolic exchange dimension associated with it( Battaile death as other/ scyzoprenic togetherness alien to neoliberal individualism), speaking of which there is a deliberate evasion of expenditure in the symbolic sense, a preservation of surplus at all costs: pag.28, “I get a feeling a burden is being shifted back and forth. The burden of being the one who is pleased” (here could also be described as a preference for the virtual and its possibilities as opposed to the real of the event and its material fruition), also page 40, Murray invites family for dinner but if they decide not to come they need not even warn him, “I don want you to feel im holding you to something. Don’t feel you’ve made an ironclad commitment”, conception of freedom in strictly liberal terms, opposition with slavery as “freedom(or at least not a lack thereof) described by baudrillard. Also obviously saturation with meanings and signs, deterrroalarizatipn, no meaning or metaphor possible, metanymic slide of signifiers, bodily unity and senses perception put in question(phobia and panic of disease as its manifestation qua psychosis/white paranoia), voice of tv radio frequencies as …, mythological dimension and simulacra dimension taking away of the real of objects, only colours and plastics of food in supermarket iles remaining, a world of partial objects/non objects, paranoia inducing intensities; listening to the sounds of a garbage crusher (kitchen) and judging them appropriate or not, to see if it is working properly: action devoid of material basis, abstraction of movements, no phisicality or bodily involvement to help understand it better at least through an imaginary specular dimension: Baudrillard system of objects

On awareness of identity construction: passage on Wanting to grow into a collage professor, getting fat as guaranty of legitimacy, also connected with embodying, again, a certain surplus or excess (also a virtuality, babbete is heavyness evokes a capacity to take care of the family under distress), and obviously awareness throughout the book of class distinction via such and other signs: Baudrillard

Sign value and cultural distinction; german and its status, imposter thing in his university teatching, a thousand other things per page one can go on commenting, and awardingly so

Hitler primal father, “there’s something about the German language(…) In the middle of it all is Hitler, ofcourse. Heinrich named in German, the most transgressive and rhizo aura farming child…coincidence??? I thinks not

“Come on, hurry up, plane crash footage." Then he was out the door, the girls were off the bed, all three of them running along the hall to the TV set. I sat in bed a little stunned. The swiftness and noise of their leaving had put the room in a state of molecular agitation. In the debris of invisible matter, the question seemed to be, What is happening here? By the time I got to the room at the end of the hall, there was only a puff of black smoke at the edge of the screen.
But the crash was shown two more times, once in stop-action replay, as an analyst attempted to explain the reason for the plunge.
A jet trainer in an air show in New Zealand.
We had two closet doors that opened by themselves.” Schizomatic taking of things to the molecular level, interconnectedess and minimalism resulting from dissolution of the subject and its rigid demarcation from the outside, consequently delusions of hidden meanings and codes permeate the subject as in psychosis, I say this not with a pathological categorization intention but more in a metaphorical way that doesn’t arrest the flow of meaning or association I hope

Also baudrillard the real of the event sucked out by simulation, so that human interaction with the world has to base itself in these absurd ways, any general discourse or normal mode of aprhension and meaning making deterreolized, so reference to obscure/scientific/ontological foundations possible

so ONLY reference to obscure/scientific/ontological foundations possible.

“He sucked on lozenges, spoke to people in endless monologues, free-associating, as if the language came from some vastness beyond the world and he was simply the medium of revelation.”

“Crowds came to hear him speak, crowds erotically
quarters charged, the masses he once called his only bride. He closed his ear." eyes, clenched his fists as he spoke, twisted his sweat-drenched the room body, remade his voice as a thrilling weapon. 'Sex murders,' someby seven, one called these speeches. Crowds came to be hypnotized by the excitalio
voice, the party anthems, the torchlight parades."

THE LAST 2 QUOTATIONS ARE ABOUT HITLER