#vorlust

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Tonight!

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This Month's PNW playlist!

SLW 2023, episode 37 (2023_10_14)

Broadcast: KTQA-LP 95.3 FM Tacoma, streaming address at KTQA.org

Voice-Over/Intro, music in the background: Wilfred Josephs - No. 6 Attempts Helicopter Escape (The Prisoner OST (BBC T.V. 1968))

01. Life Rips (aka DadxBod) - Start a Cult in the Basement (Tacoma, Washington 2020)

02. The Last Responders - All Bets Are Off (Portland, Oregon 2023)

03. Motørböat - 112 Ocean ave. (Tacoma, Washington 2021)

04. KITSA - Wasteland (live demo)(Port Orchard, Washington 2023)

05. Eastern Promise - Dig Deep (Tacoma, Washington 2022

06. Bunny Cult - Epilogue (Seattle, Washington 2023)

07. Primary Pulse - Phantoms (Federal Way, 2018)

08. The Rat Utopia Experiment - Bleed Me Dry (Tacoma, Washington 2023)

Voice-Over/First Break, music in the background: Ron Grainer - Main Title Theme (The Prisoner OST (BBC T.V. 1968))

10. Raw Dogs - Turn to Dust (Seattle, Washington 2023)

11. Progenitor - Eldritch Supremacy (Tacoma, Washington 2023)

12. Veruta - The Eternal Hiss (Seattle, Washington 2022)

13. Vorlust - Venomous Scent (Oakland, California 2022)

14. Vaulderie - Dreadful Night (Tacoma, Washington 2022)

Voice-Over/Top of the Hour Break, music in the background: Albert Elms - Fight Between No. 6 and No. 14 (The Prisoner OST (BBC T.V. 1968))

17. Gudge - Knights Of The Frozen Dystopia (Tacoma, Washington 2019)

18. dvvell - Mother (Santa Cruz, California 2022)

Voice-Over/Third Break, music in the background: Albert Elms - Destruction and Final Report (The Prisoner OST (BBC T.V. 1968))

19. Replicas - Knife (Tacoma, Washington 2022)

20. Perimeters - Like Before (Portland, Oregon 2020)

21. Other - Atrophy (Seattle, Washington 2021)

22. Licorice Chamber - As The World Breathes (Tacoma, 2022)

23. Trance To The Moon - Fire Within Glass (Portland, Oregon 2021)

24. 2Libras(2 Libras) - Perfect Fit (Seattle, Washington 2023)

Voice-Over/Last Break, music in the background: Ron Grainer - Full Version: Main Title Theme (The Prisoner OST (BBC T.V. 1968))

25. Nirvana - Jesus Doesn't Want Me For A Sunbeam (live acoustic)(New York City, New York 1993)

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Mixtape with new music from Seeking Tragedy, The Dreamside, Gentry Blue, Crashing Atlas, Ranthiel, Orkhys, Anette Olzon, Vorlust, and Hellfynder

Mixtape with new music from Seeking Tragedy, The Dreamside, Gentry Blue, Crashing Atlas, Ranthiel, Orkhys, Anette Olzon, Vorlust, and Hellfynder

Nine songs for your listening pleasure, today’s post is filled with new music varying from Psychedelic Rock to Blackened Speed so check it out and support the bands. If available, the songs are added to the Loud Unity Spotify playlist. Make sure to follow as it is updated on an almost daily basis. Photo: Seeking Tragedy Seeking Tragedy‘s song Hacksaw is one of the evilest things I heard in a…

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End-Pleasure

As a whole tradition from Plato to Leopardi and Schopenhauer teaches, The strict equation of pleasure with satisfaction (The filling of a lack, the discharge of tension, the return to equilibrium) leads automatically to the thought of a 'death drive,' i.e., to a peaceful Nirvana lying beyond the cycle of lack and fulfillment, an ultimate satisfaction that would put an end to desires relentless march, not temporarily but for all eternity. In other words, if evacuating tension is the living beings sole motivation, then the aim of life can be nothing other than death. not physical death, however, but what one might call mental death: a kind of monotonous dead life without great changes or motions, a tranquil vita minima that endlessly drones on and on; in short, what Plato designated as the neutral life of the gods. Or, what amounts to the same, a junky.

Organ-Pleasure

[Sensual sucking as a complete absorption of attention that leads either to sleep or a motor reaction in the nature of the organism.]

Organlust is not a primary but a derived form of pleasure, first appearing in the course of the satisfaction of the organisms vital needs, and subsequently detaching itself.

The mouth that was an organ serving the purpose of self-preservation becomes in erogenous zone, which then searches for the same pleasurable stimuli independent of any vital purpose. At this moment, the infinite enters into the body: the body ruled by the closed cycle of need and satisfaction is now animated by an 'energy' (in the Aristotelian sense) which has no intrinsic stopping point. Nothing in such activity, guided solely by free, purposeless pleasure, implies that it will ever come to an end.

first, organ-pleasure is what perverts the functionality of the body, deflecting it from its practical ends and limits. A surplus pleasure can enter anywhere and divert the body onto a new path that no longer serves any vital or functional purpose: this is what the polymorphous perversity of the infantile body signifies. Second, organ- pleasure is a self-contained pleasure, cut off from the Other and the wider familial and social context.

On the other hand, one can hold, as Deleuze and Guattari do, that organ-pleasure constitutes a 'celibate machine' which has nothing to do with the Other whatsoever—It is celibate, socially sterile, solitary—nor with fantasy. Autoeroticism Rather expresses the bodies power to enjoy itself, in radical independence from the codes and imperatives of the social world.

stretching Aristotle's argument a little, one could say that need alone is insufficient to keep the organism alive. Hunger will not drive a person to eat if he or she has no appetite for it, if he or she can find no pleasure in the activity of eating.

Forepleasure

Vorlust designates the pleasure of tension, the enjoyment of the energy of the drives. This kind of pleasure immediately presents Freud with a problem: if tension is by definition unpleasurable, how is it possible to derive pleasure from it?

1. According to the official operation of the forepleasure principle, it is the final goal, the end pleasure, which mobilizes the partial pleasures in order to realize itself; thus forepleasure harmonizes with the wider aims of the pleasure principle. But from another perspective this goal is nothing but a ruse, a trick on the part of the 'means.' Adult sexuality is a pretext that allows for the reactivation of the diverse pleasures of infantile sexuality which has since fallen under repression owing to shame and disgust and internalized prohibitions. This reversal constitutes the other meaning of the forepleasure principle: The end becomes the means for the exercise, expansion, and enjoyment of the means. Adult sexuality is an alibi, a necessary fiction for the reanimation of the partial drives.

2. The other possibility is to consider vorlust as an independent force, 'unbound' from any transcendent framework (sexual or divine). In this case vorlust is no longer an incentive that paves the way for final satisfaction, but an insatiable 'hunger for excitation', a restless striving without end. According to this Nietzschean perspective, what drives the psyche is neither lack nor—what amounts to the same thing—an unpleasurable excess, but a force that enjoys its own power and seeks to expand the radius of its actions. The drive actively seeks obstacles, conflict, and resistance is in order to strengthen and affirm itself.

It is this impersonal dimension of enjoyment, with the loss of protective boundaries it entails, that can be threatening to the psyche and provoke anxiety. In a manner similar to Lacan, Deleuze distinguishes between (not enjoyment but) desire and pleasure, pleasure being the provisional halting and stabilization of a desiring process, and the reassertion of the ego's self-control. 'Pleasure is the attribution of affect, the affection for a person or subject, it is the only means for a person to 'find himself again' In the process of desire which overwhelms him.

This is what pleasure is, and attempt to shore up the situation, to keep things running more or less smoothly until the next crisis hits, to confirm the ego's 'little mastery.'

Pleasure-in-Movement

In the last section of the second of the 'Three Essays', in titled the sources of infantile sexuality, Freud speaks of 'the pleasurable character of the sensations of movement.'

these collateral excitations cannot be fully contained by the context in which they arise, but spill over and affect other (unrelated) impulses and mental processes. They are nomadic intensities.

The Trouble with Pleasure // Aaron Schuster

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hope you're having a good day 🌹

life is trying me but i’m trying my best~

i hope you’re having a great day too sweetie

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foreplay

by 1921 in sexual sense, from fore- + play (n.); Freud's Vorlust was translated earlier as fore-pleasure (Brill, 1910). A more direct translation from the German would be thwarted by the sense drift in English lust (n.).

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Vorlust @ Traxide - 05/11/2024

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Last month's PNW playlist

SLW 2023, episode 32 (2023_09_09)

Broadcast: KTQA-LP 95.3 FM Tacoma, streaming address at KTQA.org

Voice-Over/Intro, music in the background: (the) Melvins - Judy/JUDY! (Los Angeles, California 1999)

01. 2 Libras - Infected (Seattle, Washington 2023)

02. Bunny Cult - Feed the Pack (Seattle, Washington 2023)

03. Primary Pulse - Storm (Federal Way, Washington 2020)

04. Eastern Promise - Sea Of Tranquility (Tacoma, Washington 2022)

05. Chrome Ghost - Solitary (Sacramento, California 2016)

Voice-Over/First Break, music in the background: Toucans Steel Drum Band - Spanish Eyes (Seattle, Washington 2005)

06. Carrion Bloom - Dissolutus (Oakland, California 2022)

07. DEMONSMOKE - Creeping Down Your Neck (Antioch, California 2017)

08. AEQUOREA - Mara of the Hollow Shadow Aequorea (Nevada City, California 2022)

09. Burning Palace - Oceans of Black (Santa Rosa, California 2020)

10. Cailleach Calling - Mercurial Inversion (Oakland, California 2022)

Voice-Over/Top of The Hour Break, music in the background: Matmos - Ross Transcript (Baltimore, Maryland 2013)

11. Vaulderie - Dreadful Night (Tacoma, Washington 2022)

12. Progenitor - Beast of Gevaudan (Tacoma, Washington 2023)

13. Veruta - Insidious Eye (Seattle, Washington 2022)

14. Minenwerfer - Cemetery Fields (Sacramento, California 2023)

15. Hulder - Upon Frigid Winds (Olympia, Washington 2023)

Voice-Over/Third Break, music in the background: Wilfred Josephs - Chimes (Original Unused Main Title Theme, The Prisoner OST (BBC T.V. 1968))

16. Oppressive Descent - Limbs Strewn Across The Battered Snow (Portland, Oregon 2023)

17. Vorlust - 13th Circle (Oakland, California 2022)

18. Desiccation - Cold Dead Earth (Nevada City, California 2022)

19. Infelix - Immediate Absence (demo II)(Seattle, Washington 2022)

Voice-Over/Last Break, music in the background: Vond - To the dreamer Dead and The dreamer Dying (Notodden, Norway 1998)

20. Lapsed - VIII (C/A/T Remix)(Seattle, Washington 2022)

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Vorlust was fucking awesome at Traxide this past weekend!