G-funk’s haze aesthetic embodied a libidinal counter-mode to capitalist busyness
Evidence
G-funk differentiated itself from standard gangsta posturing by the way it dissolved the hard ego of the rapper into clouds of Chronic. Beneath the busyness of capitalist realism — and its demands that we never stop selling ourselves — was another mode of being, where time diffused slowly as exhaled smoke. Beyond the phallic machismo, there was a different libidinal economy, defined by a superficially paradoxical combination of deep yearning and a desire to remain absolutely in the sunlight-saturated moment, liberated from the urgencies of business. This is all the more poignant because a gangster’s work is never done, his enemies don’t sleep, and chilled-out bliss could be terminated at any moment by gunfire. — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 1333
Categorization
- ADDENDUM: G-funk’s dissolution of the selling-self and its libidinal economy relates closely to the sacrifice article’s themes of self-transcendence through suspended ego.
- XREF: connects to: G-funk’s stoned bliss was an escape from capitalism’s demand to never stop self-selling — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished…, 1333; Both aesthetic mood and money-possession liberate the self from resistant reality — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 451
Broader Connections
- G-funk’s stoned bliss was an escape from capitalism’s demand to never stop self-selling
#corroborates(0.92) — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 1333 - Both aesthetic mood and money-possession liberate the self from resistant reality
#complicates(0.72) — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 451