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As capitalism advances in its global reproduction, it has become evident that its civilisatory project is incompatible with life and its diversity. Our forms of extraction and accumulation of wealth depend on the modern conception of nature: a trove of resources ready to be dominated and exploited. The capitalist economic imperative has elevated consumption as the practice that defines subjectivities, and it is precisely the subjectivity of the consumer that is reproduced by hegemonic discourses. This is achieved by a series of micropolitical operations that capture and abuse the potency of desire. These operations result in what I call subjective depredation: the violent weakening of a subject’s symbolic and imaginary resources. This text explores the mechanisms by which this form of depredation occurs, as well as some of the effects it bears. Finally, I offer one example that illustrates how psychoanalysis and contemporary art can create spaces of uprising and revolt that allow to recover the potency of desire. |
