Black Postmodernism of the Elites
The philosophy of the postmodernists was addressed to the masses and directed against the coding, territorializing, and limiting power of capital. It was conceived as a practice of revolutionary struggle under new conditions, making use of erotic liberation, the destruction of rationality, the dispersion of the subject, the liberation of the flows of life, and the restoration of a pure corporeality free of markers and incisions (the “Body without Organs”).
And to a certain extent, mass culture, and especially “left liberalism”—transgenders, LGBT [1], feminists, “critical race theory,” the deregulation of migration flows, the legalization of drugs, contemporary art, modern youth styles, social networks, and so on—are indeed a direct expression of postmodernism for the masses.
The Epstein phenomenon shows that these postmodern theories were carefully absorbed and put into practice by the highest circles of the capitalist elite itself. But here, at this pole of society, somewhat different conclusions were drawn from “dark Deleuze,” from dehumanization, the liberation of the “desiring-machine,” and the experience of transgression. Liberation was meant not for everyone, but only for the select—the rich, the successful, those endowed with power and occupying high positions in society. Only their desires, in their most perverse form, received full satisfaction, at the cost of the most extreme forms of objectification and dehumanization of the victims.
On Epstein’s territory, a monstrous experiment was carried out to reproduce a stark image of contemporary capitalism, in which the ruling elite had completely usurped the very element of life itself, omnipotence, and the freedom of any desires, while the masses were represented by those unfortunates who became objects of violence, torture, and monstrous experiments, whom the rulers of the bourgeois world raped and killed, and then sometimes even ate.
What we are dealing with here is a special philosophy—a reinterpretation by elites of postmodern theories and practices originally oriented toward a peculiar “liberation of the masses,” but which they applied to the directly opposite end: to the affirmation of their own absolute freedom and power over slaves who submit to them without question, in whose person it is easy to recognize the image of all humanity.
From a symbolic point of view, Epstein’s victims are the entire population of planet Earth, with the exception of a narrow stratum of multimillionaires and billionaires, who are precisely a collective, rhizomatic Epstein.
[1] Banned in the Russian Federation.
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