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Message: <blockquote data-quote="clearstream" data-source="post: 8933447" data-attributes="member: 71699">'Less than satiation' doesn't seem always right to me. Often it is - satiation for the time being with one mode of play and/or curiousity about another mode of play. If the sense intended is - a desire to scratch itches not scratched by mainstream offers - then for me that captures it better. One may be fully satiated by the gelato cioccolato, while remaining to be satiated to any degree by the lardo.I think it can create discomfort. What I personally find occasionally discomforting is where it seems to be felt necessary to denigrate the mainstream offer in order to promote an alternative. Rather than simply promoting the alternative. <s>Perhaps the smothering weight of the mainstream can feel so oppressive that those more interested in the margins are forced into a habit of fighting back?</s> [A better idea here might be that the starting point for counter-culture might often be to define itself against the current mainstream.]Others above who have put forward or resisted the possibility of neutrality of critical theory are perhaps skirting around tensions like this one. I expect to some extent they are healthy. I'm more on the side that interesting and powerful critical theories are often opinionated (drawing power from their non-neutrality), while I might also accept that this can mean that they can fail to appeal to or have applicability for some participants. But this comes back to your point about comfort: discomforting the mainstream is often the important work of non-neutral critical theories.</blockquote>

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