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contempordaerbya toenn eoliberaelciosnmo,m ics
andc apitasluibsjte ctivation.
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GILLECSH ATELET
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THE INCITEMENT OF ENVY AND BOREDOM
IN MARKET DEMOCRACIES
Controvliloeldbe inti.cnecg,a ssdmai,rs content
witthhwe o raldn wdi othn eisnet lfhw eo rld;
thceo uratgohe o lfdass to,l iitnta hrfeya of,c e
contemapbojraeryc tiroenaw-dietelrhnl ec ounter
alofl t haeb oivnte h bioso akn,wd i ulnld erstand
whtyh rea tgole i tvheaa nti amteGdi llCehsa telet
watse mpbeyrat e edr rmiebllaen cthhoely :
melanofcs heoelyti hnwageta rseo li(caintde d
increassoti)oln igvlye -tatonh di nlki-pk'ie g s'.
From theF orewordb yAl ainB adiou
An uproaoruisp orrtaiotft hee violfs' market
democraacnyd'a technimcaanlu afolr i ts
innermoisdte ologwiocrakli ntghsi,is st hes tory
ofh owt hep erverlteegda ocfyl iberasloiusgmh t
tok neaMda 'rx''sf rpeeea sanitn'tao s tatistical
'averamgaen '-pliraanwmt a terfioartl h e
sausage-maocfhpi onset mordnei.t y
Combinitnhge i ncandeswcreanttoh f t he
betrayceodm radwei tthh ea cutdei scriminoaft ion
them athematician-pChhyastieclsiecstrt u,t inizes
thep seudo-sciaelnitbieifimscp loyteodn aturalize
them arkeatn dt he' triaplllei abnecet'w een
politics, ecaonndco ymbiecerstn,i cs.
Thisi sc ruciraela difnogar n yf utuproel itics
thawta nttso r eplaicned ividuawliitashnm
understanodfii nngd ividualtiiboenr,t arianism
witlhi beratliioqnu,i dwiittyh plasatnidtc hiet y,
statisatviecraalwg iet h the seixncgeupltairo n.
Chatelpeotl'esm iisca m ajocro ntributtoi on
contempordaerbya toenn eoliberaelciosnmo,m ics
andc apitasluibsjte ctivation.
TO LIVE AND THINK LIKE PIGS
GILLES CHAT ELET
To Livea ndTh ink
LikeP igs
THE INCITEMENT OF ENVY AND BOREDOM
IN MARKET DEMOCRACIES
Translated By
ROBIN MACKAY
URBANO MIC
For Patrick Baudet, Copi Damonte, Michel Cressole, Gilles
Deleuze, Daniel Guerin, Felix Guattari, Guy Hocquenghem,
who always refused to live and think like pigs.
My greatest thanks to Dominique Lecourt, for his
encouragement and his attentive reading of the manuscript.
Truth-andj ustice-require calm, and yet they only belong
to the violent.
G. BATAILLE
Human rights will not make us bless capitalism. A great
deal ef innocence or cunning is needed by a philosophy ef
communication that claims to restore the society effr iends,
or even ef wise men, by forming a universal opinion as
'consensus' able to moralize nations, States, and the market.
Human rights say nothing about the immanent modes ef
existence efp eople provided with rights. Nor is it only in the
extreme situations described by Primo Levi that we experi
ence the shame ef being human. We also experience it in
insignificant conditions, before the meanness and vulgarity
efe xistence that haunts democracies, before the propagation
ef these modes ef existence and ef thoughtjor-the-market,
and before the values, ideals, and opinions ef our time.
The ignominy ef the possibilities ef life that we are Qfef red
appearsfr om within. We do notf eel ourselves outside ef our
time but continue to undergo shameful compromises with it.
This feeling ef shame is one ef philosophy's most powerful
motifs. We are not responsiblef or the victims but responsible
before them. And there is no way to escape the ignoble but to
play the part eft he animal (to growl, burrow, snigger, distort
ourselves): thought itself is sometimes closer to an animal that
dies than to a living, even democratic, human being.
G. DELEUZE, F. GUATTARI, WHAT IS PHILOSOPHY?
