Chaosophy - autonomous learning

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CINE OF RE
The history of desire is inseparable from the history of its repression.
Maybe one day a historian will try to write a history of
"cinemas of desire" (the way one tells an audience who express
their sentiments too excitedly to "stop their cinema"). But, at the
very least, he would have to begin this history with classical antiquity!
It could start with the opening of the first big theater of
international renown, a theater for captive cinephiles: Plato's cave.
It would have to describe the 2000 years or so of the Catholic
church's monopoly of production and distribution, as well as the
abortive attempts of dissident societies of production, such as the
Cathar cinema of the 12th century, or the Jansenist cinema of the
17th, up to the triumph of the baroque monopoly. There would
be color film in it: with 10th century stained-glass windows would
be the silent cinema of the "bepowdered" and the Pierrots. A special
place should be reserved for the big schools that transformed
the economy of desire on a long-term basis, like that of courtly
love, with its four hundred troubadours who managed to "launch"
a new form of love and a new kind of woman. It would have to
appreciate the devastating effects of the great consortia of romanticism
and their promotion of an infantilization of love, while
awaiting the saturation of the market by psychoanalytical racketeering
with its standard shorts for miniaturized screens: the little
cinema of transference, Oedipus, and castration.
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