Romanticized nature and desire directly translate rather than oppose capital

Evidence

Now, free, virgin nature, without limits or territories, where each wanders at will, never existed, except in the imaginary of the dominant order, of which this nature is the equivalent mirror. We project (nature, desire, animality, rhizome … ) the very schema of deterritorialization that is that of the economic system and of capital as ideal savagery. Liberty is nowhere but in capital, it is what produced it, it is what deepens it. There is thus an exact correlation between the social legislation of value (urban, industrial, repressive, etc.) and the imaginary savagery one places in opposition to it: they are both “deterritorialized” and in each other’s image. … Nature, liberty, desire, etc., do not even express a dream the opposite of capital, they directly translate the progress or the ravages of this culture, they even anticipate it, because they dream of total deterritorialization where the system never imposes anything but what is relative: the demand of “liberty” is never anything but going further than the system, but in the same direction. — Jean Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation, 460

Categorization

• XREF: This is Baudrillard’s direct counter-position to Deleuze and Guattari’s desire-as-liberation and to Jameson’s postmodernism; also recalls the ‘precession of simulacra’ logic where the copy precedes and outruns the system. — connects to: Civilization’s bondage breeds longing that becomes worship of a transfigured nature; Resisting capitalism requires a subjective revolution toward love and unity with nature — Wael Hallaq, Restating Orientalism: A Critique of…, 499; Postmodern nature imagery memorializes a nature already systemically eliminated by capitalism — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 396 (+10 more)
• DEEPTHINKING: The move here — oppositional energy (‘liberty,’ ‘desire,’ ‘nature’) as the system’s own most radical extension, so resistance as going ‘further in the same direction’ — is a dense, paradigm-shifting claim about critique being captured by what it opposes.

Broader Connections

• Resisting capitalism requires a subjective revolution toward love and unity with nature #contradicts (0.85) — Wael Hallaq, Restating Orientalism, 499
• Both aesthetic mood and money-possession liberate the self from resistant reality #exemplifies (0.80) — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 451
• Nature is the object of reason as liberation, not only domination #contradicts (0.80) — Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man, 826
• Postmodern nature imagery memorializes a nature already systemically eliminated by capitalism #expands (0.75) — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 396
• Power produces subjects and desires rather than merely repressing them #expands (0.75) — Saba Mahmood, Politics of Piety, 131
• Desire radically alters both the body’s lived being and the correlated world #expands (0.72) — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 980
• The Romantic imagination rejected Enlightenment rationalism and embraced the subconscious #corroborates (0.72) — Sophia Rose Arjana, Muslims in the Western Imagination, 437