Pleasure historically mediated by apparatus collapses into a single technical object

Evidence

Pleasure (whether perverse or not) was always mediated by a technical apparatus, by a mechanism of real objects but more often of phantasms - it always implies an intermediary manipulation of scenes or gadgets. Here, pleasure is only orgasm, that is to say, confused on the same wave length with the violence of the technical apparatus, and homogenized by the only technique, one summed up by a single object: the automobile. — Jean Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation, 376

Categorization

• XREF: The claim that modern pleasure is homogenized by a single technical object parallels Jameson’s account of commodified, depthless affect in late capitalism. — connects to: Mechanical reproduction of beauty destroys the unconscious idolatry that made beauty vital; Intimacy became a temporary experience molded by speculative technologies; Happiness is only attainable through fetishized attachment to objects — Theodor W. Adorno, Minima Moralia: Reflections from…, 148 (+5 more)

Broader Connections

• Intimacy became a temporary experience molded by speculative technologies #expands (0.78)
• European curiosity required mechanisms that rendered the world into objects #expands (0.75)
• Happiness is only attainable through fetishized attachment to objects #expands (0.72) — Theodor W. Adorno, Minima Moralia, 148
• Prestige seeking replaces genuine enjoyment in cultural consumption #expands (0.72)
• Mass-culture enjoyment is imitation of emotion rather than felt emotion #expands (0.70) — Theodor W. Adorno, The Culture Industry, 101