The last lecture

I think there is the key opposition. She wants it to be over. And this is, as I said, part of the series of problematic genderings throughout the text. The Little Girl Marx is kind of naive. The Little Girl Marx just doesn’t like capitalism and wants it to be over with. Whereas the Old Man Marx is making the case against capitalism, and together they should have this child which should be the revolutionary subject of the proletariat. But this child never comes, because the Old Man Marx is never done with the prosecution of the case against capital.

This thing about deferring. Don’t come yet. Never come. The case is never finalised.

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The body which has a desire to return to some wholeness. There is no wholeness. There is no undivided body. I guess that means there is no nature. There is no pure realm. There is no pure, uncorrupted realm. There are only split, incommensurate bodies which cannot be added up into a kind of wholeness or unity. Ever.

Mark Fisher discussing Lyotard’s Libidinal Economy at his final lecture before his suicide on January 2017; transcript collected in postcapitalist desire