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Mark and Wes read through and discuss the beginning of Felix Guattari’s “Everybody Wants to Be a Fascist” (1973). Guattari was a Lacanian psychotherapist, and he argues for explaining fascist tendencies via a “micropolitics of desire,” i.e. looking at the individual psychology of fascism instead of merely focusing on sociological, material causes of the rise of fascism.
Here’s the the John Ganz blog Wes refers to at the end, and the episode of Acid Horizon.
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with figures like Lacan and Guattari there is a lot of technical language and taken-for-granted-contexts to be explicated before reading, if folks want one attempt to make this bit easier to grasp for our times see:
http://www.ladeleuziana.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/04-en-Genosko-Resonance_MicroFascism.pdf
I’m sure Gary would be glad to come on and help lay out some of the back grounds like the uses/abuses of Peirce’s semiotics and all, if yer looking for some practical ways into Deleuze Ian Buchanan is a good guide and a lovely fellow.