Constellation: Play Drive
The play drive reconciles the tension between the material “sensuous drive” (instinct) and the “formal drive” (reason). It is the uniquely human tendency towards aesthetic freedom.
Formal Failings
Source: The End: I am not Here (Music for Toy Pianos) by Aestrid Byrne. Cecil and the Little Lord (Excerpt) The little lord stood before his looking glass, regaling his fine form. And it was not an arrogant waif wearing oversize breeches and an absurdly fancy hat that he saw (such as a less biased…
The City Without Organs
Source: A Rainbow in Curved Air by Terry Riley Lobe (Excerpt) …circumstances of a post-consumer society will in time mimic the effects of Lobe on an individual pre-social transformation. Society itself becomes the embodiment of a Lobe-induced perspective. With this marriage of the internal and external, the mode of maintaining the impetus of social change…
