The dictum that opens Pierre Klossowski’s „La monnaie vivante” („since the middle of the nineteenth century, industrial civilisation has been cursed for killing affects”) problematizes the inherent connection between economy and the libidinal life. By exposing the process through which passions institute their own repression, Klossowski—via the comparison of Sade and Fourier—interrogates both the inevitability of commodification of the affects and the prospect for their liberation. By reading Klosowski alongside Deleuze and Guattari’s theory of desire, the primary purpose of the article is to reconstruct disjunctive logic inscribed within desire, which enables at once investments sustaining the status quo and counter-investments that contest it.
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