The thing is with these commercial guys is that they love to tell a story.
Sickness, or the burden of the object (marriage, gender, friend) is identity. Have Deleuze explain this away...got to keep it interesting after 18 years, the man with cane says, after insinuating that his german girlfriend from brooklyn puts on jackboots when they fuck: the preemptive defense of failure by distance and sickness. If laughter is communicative comprehension, then irony is what young people consider social security.
It is almost impossible to be without some distraction in the world. Whether it be some purpose or technological appendage. The heroin addicts, so strong willed before, attempt to show how committed they have become to sobriety. This pantomime of routine and health cannot hide their failure to truly have become one with their addiction in death. Even sickness, it seems, is a reason to tell others that you are alive, still. Sickness is a brand and an identity. It compels the system, as it were, to send its brightest police in response and accommodation. Like waves breaking along a coastline, sickness shapes our resources in stable erosions. How many worlds could be contained within the frailest bodies, bodies that have absorbed the reckoned excess of anterior systems?
The proletariat has long been plagued by hackneyed images of labor and the bullshit protestant efforts of the unlucky and the honest. The proletariat is the form that sustains identity, and therefore can have no presence, for it is a structural deficit. But the Real is at the same time the product, remainder, leftover, scrap of this process of symbolization, the remnants, the excess which escapes symbolization and is as such produced by the symbolization itself.
Stories from Citi, in edit: the silver-haired bourgeois couple regally travel to laugh and to enjoy the colorful performances of traditional cultures. Back home in some version of manhattan, the good wife buys the perfect object: stadium seats from the recently destroyed stadium. If I had world enough and time to squeeze the universe into a ball.
Immigrant stories from Toyota: the embarrassment of the child when being picked up from school. The libidinal market for automobiles is to be sought in the child.
New york in the 90's was the time to be young and poor, and it didn't matter.
Allergies are organs that respond to environmental antagonisms, or symbolic blockages.
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