This is fascinating from Richard Seymour on the addictive cycles of threat and release, the excitement of being able to hit back at phobic objects, underpinning the contemporary far-right. He’s arguing that far-right formations are an emergent solution to the libidinal evisceration which late capitalism is giving rise to. Anger as a vector of meaning in a dying world which can’t provide the parameters in which a meaningful life would be possible.
