The "need-desire binary"

 
Morton suggests that we "address" the "need-desire binary" (140)
 
"need," for Morton, is an "alienated form" of desire (more on 141)
 
"the strongly reinforced meme of need versus desire [...] is an artifact of agrilogistic computation"
 
"We have to go all the way through desire, which in conventional Marxist terms means traversing the alienation of the commodity form rather than trying to return to a natural state posited as chronologically or logically prior to that alienation" [?]
> from Timothy Morton's Humankind: Solidarity with Nonhuman People (2017)

> tagged with #alienation, #capitalism, #desire

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