Libidinal Economy by Jean-François Lyotard
An experimental, dense critique that reconceives political economy as a circulation of libidinal intensities rather than purely material exchanges. Drawing on psychoanalysis, Marx, Nietzsche and structuralist thought, it argues that desire, drives and investments shape social formations and power relations, and that capitalist systems canalize and commodify these libidinal flows, producing both innovation and violence. Rejecting teleological grand narratives and dialectical closure, the work maps networks of intensity, valorization and discharge to show how unconscious forces and economic-technological processes co-produce history and social conflict.
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- 1974
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- - L'Économie libidinale
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