Rodrigo Pacheco Pacheco itibaren 10054 Bessè Alto TO, Italija itibaren 10054 Bessè Alto TO, Italija

I read the first part of this second volume of Male Fantasies, which seems to take as its object of study the figure of the soldier both as an abstract possibility and as a historical fact of the Nazi regime. The historical may be interesting, but the really useful parts are the abstractable theoretical points on how the opposition isn't exactly crowd-vs.-individual, but formed-crowd-(army)-vs.-unformed-crowd-(mass,race); the formation of the army, as in Freud, comes to serve as an externalized skeleton that keeps ones dead desires in control until they are able to be released--as the desire for death--on the battlefield. His other interesting point is that the appearance of governmental secrecy gives people a feeling of security on the analogy that their own bodies contain an unknowable mystery -- thus the pure logic that goes on behind doors acts as a seal on the governance of the body. (And, consequently, an attempt at an open politics will fail to move people affectively until the body is known, a point which matches up very well with Teresa Brennan's Transmission of Affect.)