Limiting desire may intensify rather than deaden it

Evidence

If, as Oliver James, Žižek and Supernanny have shown, unlimited license leads to misery and disaffection, then limitations placed on desire are likely to quicken, rather than deaden, it. In any case, rationing of some sort is inevitable. The issue is whether it will be collectively managed, or whether it will be imposed by authoritarian means when it is already too late. — Mark Fisher, Capitalist Realism, 164

Categorization

• XREF: Chimes with themes in the reader’s silence/noise reading about enforced quiet and sensory management; also connects to the moral-panics work on how freedom of appetite gets culturally managed. — connects to: A perpetual power of withdrawal enables sensation rather than weakening it — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel: Plasticity,…, 449; Some depression is compulsive pleasure-seeking, not loss of pleasure — Mark Fisher, Capitalist Realism: Is There No…, 47; Instant technical availability reduces the felt desire for the very things it makes available — Hartmut Rosa, Social Acceleration: A New Theory of…, 54

Related

• Depression and anxiety are captured forms of discontent that rationing and austerity could release. (similarity 0.82)

Broader Connections

• A perpetual power of withdrawal enables sensation rather than weakening it #corroborates (0.85) — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 449