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Goals/objectives, there being a teatrics of work a simulation that hides the fact that there is nothing anymore to produce, the dissolution of the barrier between life and work ( seeing as work is no longer traditionaly defined and limited in a strict concept and material relation to production), the colonisation of life by the ethics of work and SURPLUS VALUE, investing training grinding job insecurity lifestyle influencers crypto etc; Connection with Paul de Mans concept of literature not representing an experience but its own act of reading/writing creating another experience itself, inseparable from the work accessible only through this medium

Connection with politics: there is nothing left to do, no people to govern (the concept of people tied to the state/to specific relations of production/ and its representational apparatus, to the social, being replaced by the multitude of the many, ungovernable an unrepresentatable) there is only the simulation of power left, a management devoid of meaningful acts and differences, ideology being replaced by “heroic measures”(baudrillard divine left), the progressive approximation of power to the people without the safe space of representation (between a signifier and signified) to protect, without the delegation of soveirgnity of the people to a figure (even though its opressive it allows for the true exercise of power, nowadays the humble political figure is anxious to take power and challenge the people, or even to just assume it, the discourse of the master (and its literal embodiment) is truly in a crisis/dissapearing, what discourse will replace it (if any), if every discourse works around a node, a hole that it ignores, and if truth is arrived at not by a totalizing meta discourse that would cover every such hole, but by a discourse that simply works around a different hole, having also lies in its bosomm

But allowing for truth to arrive by contrast (ex: utilizing the histeric discourse in analysis against the master discourse of the analysand, or against the university discourse, or utilizing the masters to help the psychotic), then what discursive position should we take to face this new mode of being and speaking (if any), or will it lead to something different, to a possibility of evading these repressions of representation but also to combat the deterriolization forces of capitals with a different kind of unity and togetherness founded on different principles??

Also: the rise of the impostor syndrome fenomenon related to the loosening of strict socialy imposed identitys and forms of being, a freedom to be whatever you want to be coming to terms with the fact that every identity is a simulation, there is no natural inside to return to, the original you, and in trying to return or to be or to inhabit such a position one is confronted with the fact the a: it’s a simulation b: it’s much harder to simulate being oneself, you have to create it yourself, and if there is no Other to the Other (there is no Other to the social Other) to ultimately verify your socially given position, the just wait because in post modernity there is not even an Other to begin with, so that one will start to miss its opression with a fondness that misses the security of being a slave. Therein is the problem and danger in contemporary politics also, will this provide for a new form of politics, or a neutral ground made of indifferent events, OR a desperate attempt to return to an earlier state by electing a totalitarian leader?

Aka, was Lacan right about may 68 or not?

!!!!!!:”My hypothesis is that the communication industry (or rather, the spectacle, or even yet, the culture industry) is an industry among others, with its specific techniques, its particular procedures, its peculiar profits, etc.; on the other hand, it also plays the role of industry of the means of production. Traditionally, the industry of the means of production is the industry that produces machinery and other instruments to be used in the most varied sectors of production. However, in a situation in which the means of production are not reducible to machines but consist of linguistic-cognitive competencies inseparable from living labor, it is legitimate to assume that a conspicuous part of the so-called "means of production" consists of techniques and communicative procedures. Now, where are these techniques and procedures created if not in the culture industry? The culture industry produces (regenerates, experiments with) communicative procedures, which are then destined to function also as means of production in the more traditional sectors of our contemporary economy. This is the role of the communication industry, once postFordism has become fully entrenched: an industry of the means of communication.”

Bem genial ou não ?

But what about ai? Will the taking over and rending obsolete of certain technical jobs/or “bullshit jobs” engender a bigger unemployed faction of the population or will more “communicative” terciary performance simulacra pilled jobs emerge? After all our economy of consumption needs a good salaries for a high demand, production of consumption (the will to consume) being more important than production itself, or will the ai tech daddy gods invent a new way to pay for the jobless chopped ah workers (the credit card already addresses some of these issues, buy more with less money) ex: pay with ya blood if you have no cash, so they can infuse it and become younger or smth, or like your children’s blood or your placenta or whatevs ya get me?

*Emerge in response to unemployment, from where no one knows, hidden forces supra state inter state inter consciousness white lodge black lodge whatevs

There is an excess of products that needs be consumed, if not inflation and if prolonged total rupture of our current mode of living and social organization

TikTok universal terms creation helps global connection homogeneity of culture helps globalism thinking theatrics simulation, school on behaving TikTok dances yes yes that’s educational