Ethical difficulty beyond good and evil can itself engineer new enjoyment
Evidence
What was the “beyond good and evil” of Scritti, Gang of Four, the Pop Group and the Raincoats if not the production of just such a space? (As Lacan wryly notes, when we idly think of someone who is “beyond good and evil” we are liable to think of someone is merely beyond “good”.) This entails not an austere asceticism but the engineering of new forms of enjoyment. The early Scritti’s “difficulty” places them beyond the pleasure principle, for sure, but we succumb to an ideological lure if we think that this puts them beyond enjoyment too. — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 994
Categorization
- XREF: Connects to ch48 ‘Beyond-good-and-evil thought usually abandons good while keeping evil as a category.’ — connects to: Beyond-good-and-evil thought usually abandons good while keeping evil as a category — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished…, 701; Moralistic self-denial weakens and coarsens the capacity for immediate pleasure — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 738; Self-inflicted suffering can be embodied ethical performance rather than punishment — Talal Asad, Formations of the Secular:…, 463 (+2 more)
Broader Connections
- Moralistic self-denial weakens and coarsens the capacity for immediate pleasure
#qualifies(0.75) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 738 - Self-inflicted suffering can be embodied ethical performance rather than punishment
#expands(0.72) — Talal Asad, Formations of the Secular, 463 - Opposites like good and evil are relative contrasts within an absolute whole
#expands(0.72) — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 915 - Evil can consist of depraved excess where pleasure gained wildly underweighs pain inflicted
#expands(0.72) — John T. Jost and Jim Sidanius, Political Psychology, 3870