Every liberated energy inevitably produces a new remainder of its own
Evidence
Today the remainder, the energies left us, the restitution and the conservation of remainders, is the crucial problem of humanity. It is insoluble in and of itself. All new freed or spent energy will leave a new remainder. All desire, all libidinal energy, will produce a new repression. What is surprising in this, given that energy itself is not conceived except in the movement that stockpiles and liberates it, that represses it and “produces” it, that is to say in the figure of the remainder and its double? — Jean Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation, 487
Categorization
- XREF: The recycling trap — every ‘solution’ generates new waste — connects to ecological discourse and to the postmodern recycling aesthetic Jameson critiques. — connects to: The remainder annuls itself once it is everywhere — Jean Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation, 476; Reality is founded precisely by removing the remainder — Jean Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation, 463; At critical saturation, repression collapses the very concept of energy it produces — Jean Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation, 486 (+1 more)
Broader Connections
- At critical saturation, repression collapses the very concept of energy it produces
#expands(0.85) — Jean Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation, 486 - The remainder annuls itself once it is everywhere
#contradicts(0.82) — Jean Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation, 476 - Reality is founded precisely by removing the remainder
#complicates(0.80) — Jean Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation, 463 - Friction always caps how much energy resonance can store.
#qualifies(0.78) — Eric J. Heller, Why You Hear What You Hear- An…, 943