Cannibalism in the political economic register is the production of social totalities by the literal incorporation of otherness. It deals with human difference in the most direct way not merely by doing away with it, but by taking it in completely, metabolizing it, transforming it into shit, and eliminating it. The metabolized 'other' supplies the energy for auto eroticism, narcissism, economic conservatism, egoism, and absolute group unity or fascism, now all arranged under a positive sign (MacCannell, 1992: 66)