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Why is challenging or overcoming capitalism such a difficult project when its economic, social, and environmental failures are abundantly clear? John Roberts proposes a unique answer, it is because capital has become part of our very conception of ourselves, our self-love. * Jason Read, Professor of Philosophy, University of Southern Maine, USA * John Roberts's Capitalism and the Limits of Desire intervenes at the very core of contemporary debates on the libidinal economy, insisting that we need to work through the complex nexus of economic logic and the production of enjoyment, if we want to effectively organise our resistance against the catastrophic tendencies of capitalism. Roberts also provides us with a much-needed orientation in the multiplicity of classical and contemporary takes on the function of enjoyment and affects in the reproduction of capitalism. * Samo Tomsic, Research Associate in Philosophy, Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany *

Why is challenging or overcoming capitalism such a difficult project when its economic, social, and environmental failures are abundantly clear? John Roberts proposes a unique answer, it is because capital has become part of our very conception of ourselves, our self-love. We love capital more than ourselves. * Jason Read, Professor of Philosophy, University of Southern Maine, USA * John Robert's Capitalism and the Limits of Desire intervenes at the very core of contemporary debates on the libidinal economy, insisting that we need to work through the complex nexus of economic logic and the production of enjoyment, if we want to effectively organise our resistance against the catastrophic tendencies of capitalism. Robert also provides us with a much-needed orientation in the multiplicity of classical and contemporary takes on the function of enjoyment and affects in the reproduction of capitalism. * Samo Tomsic, Research Associate in Philosophy, Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany *

Why is challenging or overcoming capitalism such a difficult project when its economic, social, and environmental failures are abundantly clear? John Roberts proposes a unique answer, it is because capital has become part of our very conception of ourselves, our self-love. We love capital more than ourselves. * Jason Read, Professor of Philosophy, University of Southern Maine, USA *

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John Roberts is Professor of Art and Aesthetics at the University of Wolverhampton, UK. He is author of The Intangibilities of Form: Skill and Deskilling in Art After the Readymade (2007), The Necessity of Errors (2010), Photography and Its Violations (2014), Revolutionary Time and the Avant-Garde (2015), Thoughts on an Index Not Freely Given (2016) and His The Reasoning of Unreason (Bloomsbury 2018) and co-editor of Boris Arvatov, Art and Production (2017)

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