Mimetic Desire
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0:00 Intro
1:22 What is mimetic rivalry? memtic desire.
2:48 Mimicry as an internal set of neurosis.
5:05 What we want is the attention and control that someone else wanted first.
7:14 If somebody else wants something, our survival depends on us getting to it first.
9:47 Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet.
11:28 Accelerationism is a means to break out of the deadlock of capitalism.
12:56 All of our focus is now embodied in winning the object.
14:46 If the system is good enough, it will disperse the energies.
16:37 How capitalism fits into all of this.
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