New Hauntologies
It seems to me that, at this juncture, we’re not just in the position of ‘lost futures’ or a state of what Fisher would also call “depressive hedonia” (instead of anhedonia), but also a sort of simulacra of the plaisir affected by a class of ennui-afflicted rich who in-part inform our notions of desire and pleasure. It’s not just that we are trapped a condition of “depressive hedonia”, but that our hedonia is depressive precisely because one of the few models we have left of jouissance is the one provided to us from an audience-driven social-media celebretariat who can count on our ever-present otherness to provide it for them, whereas we, by contrast, cannot—and can only ever attempt to extract the incidental drippings of what approval can be eked from our most devoted followers.
I think Mark was verily touching on something, but I think his popularity exploded at a point where it was much too little, too late.
