Desire results from libidinal engineering, not spontaneous vitalist release
Evidence
At the same time, desire is not some vitalistic energy which will spontaneously emerge once bodies are freed from institutions. Rather, desire is always the result of processes of libidinal engineering — and at the moment, our desire is manipulated by capital’s army of PR, branding and advertising specialists. The left needs to produce its own machineries of desire. — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 1911
Categorization
- XREF: connects to: Female desire is an indissoluble synthesis of attraction and repulsion, not disguised male-derived libido — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 130; Desire is a chosen mode of consciousness, not a passive impingement — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 979; Erotic desire fundamentally resists social regulation and institutions — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 406 (+1 more)
Broader Connections
- Female desire is an indissoluble synthesis of attraction and repulsion, not disguised male-derived libido
#complicates(0.78) — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 130 - Desire is a chosen mode of consciousness, not a passive impingement
#qualifies(0.75) — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 979 - Erotic desire fundamentally resists social regulation and institutions
#contradicts(0.72) — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 406