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Evelyn Waugh (BH Revisited) and Aldous Huxley (Antic Hay) to talk about the crises of the drift of desire in consumer culture, which work as a metaphor of geographical materialism, a peripatetic allegory of the ceaseless imperial search for areas of production.
- Mrs. Dalloway, Peter’s stalking of the girl
- Ann Veronica, into the ABC shop
- Good Soldier, Mamie and the tiara episode
Simmel: I can now talk about the play form of capitalism
- Hook up with Negri (less visible work) (consumption seen as more significant)
- Hook up with Hakim Bey (no more colonies, oh god) (geography)
Architecture and geography: they’re constantly walking, searching, but end up coming back to England and coming back defeated.
- Gothic stuff in Antic Hay, History and the home in BH R, show that the ultimate desire here is Englishness, Englishness please.
Desire is entrenched around advertisements, which advocate a distracted set of recathexing and recathexing, which is required to keep capitalism’s motor running.
The non-existent trip to Europe in Huxley shows that the ultimate “market” won’t be found. Waugh’s imperialist allegory shows how it won’t make you happy.
Financial panic: find some nonfiction about it (1850s Marx was talking about it: where to put the bad debt? can no longer shift them)

Revised on April 10, 2009 06:27:18 by shawna? (71.58.67.97)