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This is a personal project by @dellsystem. I built this to help me retain information from the books I'm reading.

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sublimation

treating them as a metamorphosis (by sublimation) of the fundamental demand for love

on demands for love within social universes

—p.71 Joyful Auto-Mobiles (Employees: How To Pull Their Legs) (49) by Frédéric Lordon
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ontogenetic

there is no need to pass through an ontogenetic hypothesis in order to account for demands for love addressed within social universes such as employment

—p.72 Joyful Auto-Mobiles (Employees: How To Pull Their Legs) (49) by Frédéric Lordon
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apodictic

even aside from this apodictic derivation

—p.71 Joyful Auto-Mobiles (Employees: How To Pull Their Legs) (49) by Frédéric Lordon
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how to counter the threat of dereliction

This threat of dereliction in the service of a foreign desire, the threat of the expenditure of the power of acting as pure loss – though obviously the ‘loss’ is never pure, if only because at the very least the expenditure brings in a salary – can be countered in the end in a very limited number o…

—p.69 Joyful Auto-Mobiles (Employees: How To Pull Their Legs) (49) by Frédéric Lordon
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the desire of finance capital

[...] because it is removed from the concrete appreciation of capital, the conatus of financial capital has contact with absolutely nothing beyond the surplus value that flows back to it. It can therefore form no other desire.

—p.68 Joyful Auto-Mobiles (Employees: How To Pull Their Legs) (49) by Frédéric Lordon