desublimation
deposition *

The reverse process of sublimation is desublimation, or deposition.

Deposition, also known as desublimation, is a thermodynamic process, a phase transition in which gas transforms into solid.

Critical exploration of contemporary Raunch culture has also been usefully linked to the notion of repressive desublimation.

Introduced the concept of repressive desublimation, in which social control can operate not only by direct control, but also by manipulation of desire.

His famous concept repressive desublimation refers to his argument that postwar mass culture, with its profusion of sexual provocations, serves to reinforce political repression.

Foucault expanded the concept into 'hyper-repressive desublimation', and simultaneously criticised it for ignoring the plurality and extent of competing sexual discourses that emerged from the sexual revolution.

Continuing lift and desublimation will tend to increase the number of ice crystals which may combine until they are too heavy to be supported by the vertical air currents and fall out as snow.

Herbert Marcuse explored how in late modernity "repressive desublimation is indeed operative in the sexual sphere...as the by-product of the social controls of technological reality, which extend liberty while intensifying domination".

By offering instantaneous, rather than mediated gratifications, repressive desublimation was considered by Marcuse to remove the energies otherwise available for a social critique; and thus to function as a conservative force under the guise of liberation.

Repressive desublimation has been considered in some postmodernist thought as an accurate description of many latter-day social developments, though with these now re-valorised in a celebration, not condemnation, of the contented depthlessness of one-dimensional global man.

Thus, for example, the post-political, media-friendly sexuality of the 1990s has been considered as a conservative construct within the neoliberal order, supporting an advertisement-based system of mass sexualised commodification, exactly as Marcuse's concept of repressive desublimation predicted.

Such desire for the other may be less the result of a desublimation of repressed desire than a consequence of desire itself being structured by social repression generally: thus the other may be cathected as (an) other beyond repression.

Here the socialisation of the unconscious into mass form of pleasure-drills, and the social control of the drive exercised through the command to transgress, rather than repress, can be seen as practical examples of repressive desublimation pervading much of global culture.

A key to his analysis is the concept of "repressive desublimation," which inverts the traditional Freudian analysis, where civilization is said to be formed by the sublimation of desires and the structuring, in capitalism the exploitative repression, of eros into alienated labor for someone else's profit.

On the other side are pornographers, comedians and other champions of desublimation, many of them worshippers at the shrine of Lenny Bruce, whose fearlessness made the comedy clubs of America into what Bill Maher calls "the freest free speech zone" in the nation.

Marcuse's idea can be criticised for utopianism in seeking to envisage an alternative to the happy consciousness of repressive desublimation that permeates postmodern culture, as well as for modernist elitism in his appeal for critical leverage to an 'autonomous' sphere of high culture.

We'll play your deposition for the court, then you will have to answer a few questions.

By the time of this deposition, they knew what their evidence was.

So let me be absolutely clear, we're talking here deposition.

There were a number of people in the room at the deposition.

Bring your man my office at once deposition may be required.

I want to visit him again before we take his deposition.

And if there were any questions about my deposition, I don't want to hear them.

And, believe me, I knew what the purpose of the deposition was.

We would take a deposition from you before the trial.

My deposition in the Jones case came three days later.

He's not been forced to give a deposition in any of them.

But he has agreed to give a full deposition over the next few weeks.

And it is certain that the business of his deposition was put in hand at once.

"Then we can start getting its deposition, if it wants to talk."

Yet like a criminal's deposition, one thing does lead to another.

In practice deposition will be much more complex than this.

"I felt people were at risk, patients and staff," she said in a deposition.

Into a legal office comes a deposition of many pages.

The deposition is given at the request of the defense.

The depositions will probably not take place until next month.

First, consider the President's options after he left the deposition.

The deposition released today was taken June 5 and 7.

More than 100 people have given depositions in the case.

In a deposition this winter the young man was asked if he had said that.

And I think some people believe that's what happened in this deposition, but the record absolutely shows that wasn't the case.