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The next meeting of Happy Friends Reading Club will take place at HomeShop on Sunday, the 18th of December, 2011 at 5pm. Below are the readings, please make a request if you wish to receive them:

  • “Desire Horrified at Losing and at Losing Oneself” and “Object of Desire and the Totality of the Real” (Chapters 3 & 4 of Part 4, vol. 2) of The Accursed Share, by Georges Bataille, written between 1946 and 1949 (translated and published in English in 1991).
    And the counterpoint to this text is:
  • Desiring-Production” (Part 1, Chapter 1) from Anti-Oedipus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia by Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari (1972).

This combination was selected with the enigmatic finale to Bifo’s article from last meeting in mind:

This generation, which experiences a problematic relationship between language and the body, between words and affection, separates language from the body of the mother, and from the body in general—for language in human history has always been connected to a fear of trusting the body. In this situation, we need to reactivate our ability to connect language and desire, or the situation will become extremely bad. If the relationship between the signifier and the signified can no longer be guaranteed by the presence of the body, we lose our relationship to the world. 

We located one of the problems being the definition of desire, its relation to language, its helping to provide the grounds for a connection to “the world.” To be continued…




2 Responses to “Happy Friends Reading Club: On Desire”

  1. dave

    Dear Michael,

    Wanna join you for the FRC (not KFC). Can you forward the readings to me? Thanks

    A yet unknown Dave.

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