thanatizing Lyotard's jouissance

rethinks the inhuman futural feedback process through which it conducts human history not as a thanatropic compulsion but as social participation in the progressive and self-cultivating anastrophism of in/humanity

pulling deity and creature into the thanatropic circuits of auto-annihilation, making the God die his own creature's death: the fatal irony of libidinal migration

Thanatos enters through the door opened by Eros

Herbert Marcuse (1955) argues that the performance principle means that Thanatos governs humans and society and that alienation unleashes aggressive dreams within humans

precisely the rationalisations that a thanatropic drive would produce in order to do its work

the stillness inside me, the thanatoid silence frightening me into a last-ditch effort to stay alive

a requiem for the Sixties: a dark parable about the thanatropic drives which youth messianism could nurture.