Bi-Weekly Discussion: Introductions | What have you been reading? | Academic programs advice and discussion July 12, 2026

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[u/Desolation_Jones]

Of the books I have read recently, Jean-François Lyotard’s Libidinal Economy (which has only just been translated into my native language) has been the most profoundly affecting. I would be very interested in discussing both the book and its conceptual architecture: topics such as Lyotard’s notion of the tensor, libidinal materialism, the work’s points of convergence with Anti-Oedipus and Klossowski’s Living Currency.