The myth of the wandering animal mirrors rather than opposes capital

Evidence

Animals have never wandered, were never deterritorialized. A whole liberatory phantasmagoria is drawn in opposition to the constraints of modern society, a representation of nature and of beasts as savagery, as the freedom to “fulfill all needs,” today “of realizing all his desires” - because modern Rousseauism has taken the form of the indeterminacy of drive, of the wandering of desire and of the nomadism of infinitude - but it is the same mystique of unleashed, noncoded forces with no finality other than their own eruption. — Jean Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation, 459

Categorization

• XREF: Directly targets Deleuze and Guattari’s ‘nomadism’ and ‘rhizome,’ the very names Baudrillard lists dismissively. — connects to: The nomadic-wild-animal myth mirrors capital’s deterritorialization. — Jean Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation, 459; Romanticized nature and desire directly translate rather than oppose capital — Jean Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation, 460; Postmodern nature imagery memorializes a nature already systemically eliminated by capitalism — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 396 (+4 more)
• CANDY: The claim that ‘animals have never wandered’ is a delightfully reversal-style provocation to trot out.

Broader Connections

• Romanticized nature and desire directly translate rather than oppose capital #corroborates (0.88) — Jean Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation, 460
• Postmodern nomadism mirrors how multinational capital disavows its origins #corroborates (0.82) — Aijaz Ahmad, In Theory, 219
• Psychological destiny mirrors and instantiates the exchange principle of capital #expands (0.80)
• Forcing choice between vivisection and cruelty frames the modern tragedy of animal nature #complicates (0.78)
• Sentimentality toward animals is a disguised form of disdain #complicates (0.75) — Jean Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation, 437
• Postmodern nature imagery memorializes a nature already systemically eliminated by capitalism #expands (0.72) — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 396