Chaosophy - autonomous learning

phlets, and brochures. As such they could contribute greatly to foiling
the tyranny of the savoir-ecrire that weighs not only on the
bourgeois hierarchy but which operates also among the ranks of
what is traditionally called the worker movement.
Beyond the signifier, beyond the illusion of a permanent reality.
It's not a speculative option, but an affirmation: all reality is dated,
historically, and socially situated. The order of the real has nothing
to do with destiny; one can change it. Let us consider three modern
currents of thought, vehicles of three systems of signification: totalitarian
systems, psychoanalysis, and structuralism. In each case,
there is a certain keystone on which the organization of the dominant
reality converges. A signifier dominates every statement of a
totalitarian power, a leader, a church, or God. By right, all desire
must converge upon it. No one can remain with impunity across
"the line" or outside the church. But this type of libidinal economy
centered on a transcendent object no longer corresponds exactly to
the necessities of modern production, and it tends to be replaced by
a more flexible system in developed capitalist countries. In order to
form a worker, one must start in the cradle, discipline his Oedipal
development within the family, follow him to school, to sports, to
the cinema, and all the way to the juke-box.
Psychoanalysis, while borrowing its own model from this traditional
type of libidinal economy, has refined and "molecularized" it.
It has put to task new types of less obvious objects-objects that
anyone can buy, so to speak. These objects are supposed to overcode
all the enonces of desire: the phallus and the partial
objects-breast, shit, etc ... From then on, the despotism of the
signifier no longer tends to concentrate on a leader or a God and to
express itself on the massive scale of an empire or a church, but on
that of the family itself reduced to a state of triangularity. The
struggle between the sexes, generations, and social classes has been
reduced to the scale of the family and the self. The machine of
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