MUSIC IN PHASE SPACE

Tag: Lacan

  • The Ultimate Revolution

    This is the ultimate revolution, not a political one, but an ontological one: Lester stubs out his Lucky Strike in the ashtray, a crimson ember mirroring the hollowness in his gut. The diner fluorescents buzz overhead, casting the scene in a sterile, alienating glow. The Lacanian Other, that ever-present itch he can’t quite scratch, resonates…

  • Hypermediums

    The dominant tech, that meat machine we interface with, pumps out a new identity script. Not a conscious choice, mind you, but a virus burrowing into the circuits of the desiring-machine we call “self.” This rewritten self demands a societal reshuffle, a chaotic carnival where the old order dissolves in a pool of psychic goo.…

  • Scapegoats

    The Unspeakable Real: A Lacanian Burroughsian Scapegoatology In the churning id of organizations and belief systems, a primal drama unfolds. The scapegoat, a spectral Other, becomes the stage upon which unspoken desires are projected. A witch hunt, a play defined by the absence of the Real (the true source of societal ills), demands a sacrifice.…

  • Exodus

    On Tiktok, a hyperreality unfolds. Generations collide in a digital spectacle, each trapped within their own pre-programmed narrative. The “enshittification,” as Gen Z terms it, permeates the platform, a self-referential loop of manufactured discontent. For Gen Z, this is all they’ve known. They navigate the labyrinthine simulacra of social connection, a world where authenticity is…

  • Hype as Lacanian Object-Petit a

    and Deleuzian Desiring-Machines: A Descent into the Abyss of Unfulfilled Want https://warpcast.com/bravojohnson/0x4ff768b1 Lacanian Lens: The Object-Petit a and the Fantasy of Completion Hype functioning as a form of grief, resonates with Lacanian psychoanalysis. Consider the object-petit a, that elusive object of desire forever out of reach. Hype, with its manufactured intensity, promises a glimpse of this object,…

  • Social Media Inferno

    1) The Lacanian Loop of the Unsymbolized Real: Doomed to endlessly repeat the same arguments, forever caught in the pre-symbolic realm where difference cannot be articulated. The sinthomatic return of a repressed trauma: the trauma of having never truly had a point. This is the Lacanian Loop of the Unsymbolized Real – a realm before language…

  • Lords of Scarcity

    The zero-interest rate era was the golden age of bullshit—a financial acid trip where the laws of physics, economics, and basic human decency went out the window. It was like some mad billionaire handed out Monopoly money at a rave and told everyone they could fly. And boy, did they try. Instead of building rockets…