The appetite-ratchet — desire that outruns any possible satisfaction
echoes
From: Big Red Son
- Early text: the essay's opening ER cases — "The desire for
perfect release and the real-world impossibility of perfect,
whenever-you-want-it release had together produced a tension they could no
longer stand." [opening ¶] [e-text]
- IJ echo: IJ's Substance/Entertainment isomorphism — the addiction logic
that gratification only deepens the need it relieves; Erdedy's quit/binge
loop; the Entertainment as pleasure so complete it recreates nothing but the
need for itself. The autocastration image is the appetite-ratchet at its
most literal: the body destroyed to escape a desire that admits no
satisfaction.
- Weight: restatement (oeuvre-scoped)