Lyotard was an early postmodernist and with the publication of The Libidinal Economy in the early 1970s he joined contemporaries, particularly Deleuze and Guattari, in critiquing the prescriptive narratives of psychoanalysis. ![]() An image of a morphing, boundaryless figure of libidinal energy beyond our corporal form, the Ephemeral Skin portrays both a metaphysical relationship to desire and a phenomenological experience of desire. Whilst this philosophy is used to explain broad political and social transformations, the Ephemeral Skin brings the concept to the human scale. In Lyotard’s The Libidinal Economy, he describes reality in terms of a libido that operates beyond consciousness and is signified in events through structures an economy formed by pulsion’s constantly spawned from an ether-region of desire. The Ephemeral Skin is French philosopher, Jean-Francois Lyotard’s, literal embodiment of a ‘libidinal economy’. What drives our desires, why do we want like we do? The ephemeral skin is a concept that offers a way to think about the workings of desire in our lives. But how often do we consider the source of desire itself, the mechanisms of desire, or the sensation of desire. ![]() ![]() Indeed, without wanting it hard to imagine we would get much done.
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