Laddism is defined by depressive indolence and short-circuited desire, not lasciviousness.

Evidence

The interpellated subject of the Lad magazine is the supposed “real person” (=slavering, sloppy andro-Id) beneath the pretence of social politesse. The Lad magazine addresses this “authentic id” with the leering superegoic injunction to enjoy. “Go on, admit it, you don’t want to be bothered to cook, all you want is a fishfinger sandwich… Go on, admit it, you don’t want to be bothered to talk to a woman, have a wank instead…” The fact that this reduction is possible means that lads implicitly accept the Lacanian notion that phallic jouissance involves masturbation with a “real” partner. It also indicates that laddishness is more defined by a propensity towards depressive indolence than it is by any lasciviousness. What laddism attempts is a short-circuiting of desire (yes, I know that the “inhuman partner” of desire cannot be attained, just give me pictures of girls next door instead). — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 1001

Categorization

• DEEPTHINKING: Inverts the common reading of lad culture as rampant libido, recasting it as an exhausted defense against desire — dense enough to sit with.
• XREF: connects to: Laddishness is depressive indolence, not genuine lasciviousness — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished…, 1001

Broader Connections

• Laddishness is depressive indolence, not genuine lasciviousness #corroborates (1.00) — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 1001