Show notes
0:01 Why camouflage is like a rhizome.The complexity of camouflage and abstraction.Why camouflage is a better survival strategy.2:44 The servant as master.How to become low like water and remain powerful.Master as servant - martyr. 5:16 The boss who tries to also be your best friend.The parent who guilts you. Undermined core self: camouflage needed for shame concealment. 6:56 The ubiquity of repetition and mass media.The ubiquity of marilyn monroe as a sex symbol. (Andy Warhol)Society normalization disperses desire: at once object and landscape. 9:18 Desire has become decentralized and dispersedMimetic desire has become decentralized and mimetically dispersed. The role of libido in camouflaging.12:13 The decentralization of the self.Camouflage through subject, context, confusion or dispersal at scale.Decentralization of self: the self or desire as a rhizome.14:45 Disguise is the facade that shelters the self, but also enables psychopathic killers. The digital world lacks trust, artificial intelligence, and the travails of insecurity.Crowdsourcing wikipedia is a battleground.16:57 We no longer trust the image.The attention economy and the loss of trust.The destabilization of America, 19:28 Do you still have the power to focus or just act?Focus is the only thing that can determine who we are.Hunker down and live dangerously.



