Luxury and the death-drive

Monika K. Adler – Sick Bacchus: Luxury and the death-drive

Monika K. Adler – Sick Bacchus: Luxury and the death-drive

“Capital is an abstract parasite, an insatiable vampire and zombie-maker; but the living flesh it converts into dead labor is ours, and the zombies it makes are us.” Mark Fisher, Capitalist Realism Our wounds are invisible. They devour and lay waste to us. Consumerism’s death-drive creates a deadening of affect; there’s no room for human feelings in its ideology of…