[ home / rules / faq / search ] [ overboard / sfw / alt ] [ leftypol / edu / labor / siberia / lgbt / latam / hobby / tech / games / anime / music / draw / AKM / ufo / 420 ] [ meta ] [ wiki / shop / tv / tiktok / twitter / patreon ] [ GET / ref / marx / booru ]

/leftypol/ - Leftist Politically Incorrect

"The anons of the past have only shitposted on the Internet about the world, in various ways. The point, however, is to change it."
Name
Options
Subject
Comment
Flag
File
Embed
Password(For file deletion.)

Check out our new store at shop.leftypol.org!


File: 1730328398279.png (387.54 KB, 400x649, ISG SOTS 2 v5.png)

 

A thread focused on discussing the parasocial relationships cultivated by the Almighty Algorithm to generate profit off of our atomization and society's commodification of petty internet drama.
Brace through the hyper-real lacanian void together!

Reminder That None of This Is Real!
ɢʀᴀʙ ᴀ ᴘᴀɪʀ ᴏꜰ sᴘᴇᴄᴛᴀᴄʟᴇs

—————————————————–

CORE THEORY
>The Society of the Spectacle (1967) by Guy Debord
📖 • https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/debord/society.htm
📺 • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0blWjssVoUQ

<The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction (1936) by Walter Benjamin

📖 • https://www.marxists.org/reference/subject/philosophy/works/ge/benjamin.htm
📺 • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=blq9sCIyXgA

>The Culture Industry from Dialectic of Enlightenment (1944) by Theodore Adorno & Max Horkheimer

📓 • https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/adorno/1944/culture-industry.htm
📖 • https://libcom.org/article/dialectic-enlightenment-philosophical-fragments-theodor-adorno-and-marx-horkheimer
📺 • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5hSLdd8R8mY

<Understanding Media (1964) by Marshall McLuhan

📖 • https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782045945238-0.pdf
📺 • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=09ML9n5f1fE

>One-Dimensional Man (1964) by Herbert Marcuse

📖 • https://libcom.org/article/one-dimensional-man-studies-ideology-advanced-industrial-society-herbert-marcuse
📺 • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ZCoLbEkAqs

<Discipline and Punish (1975) by Michel Foucault

📖 • https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/michel-foucault-discipline-and-punishment
📺 • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s82uU4iRuko

>Simulacra and Simulation (1981) by Jean Baudrillard

📖 • https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782045945238-1.pdf
📺 • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Yxg2_6_YLs

<Manufacturing Consent (1988) by Edward S. Herman & Noam Chomsky

📖 • https://libcom.org/article/manufacturing-consent-political-economy-mass-media-noam-chomsky-and-edward-s-herman
📺 • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=34LGPIXvU5M

>The Sublime Object of Ideology (1989) by Slavoj Zizek

📖 • https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782045945238-2.pdf
📺 • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TtIckkHsUQ4

<Postscript on the Societies of Control (1990) by Gilles Deleuze

📖 • https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/gilles-deleuze-postscript-on-the-societies-of-control
📺 • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hu4Cq_-bLlY

>Postmodernism, or, the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism (1991) by Fredric Jameson

📖 • https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782045945238-3.pdf
📺 • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_4k26xGx1zI

<Spectres of Marx (1993) by Jacques Derrida

📖 • https://libcom.org/library/specters-marx-jacques-derrida
📺 • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TJr0NwXWb6Q

>Capitalist Realism (2009) by Mark Fisher

📖 • https://libcom.org/article/capitalist-realism-mark-fisher
📺 • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Cb5XJH4NMI

—————————————————–

SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIAL

>Precursor Material to Post-modernity and Critical Theory

📖 • Karl Marx - Book 1, Chapter 4 of Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts (1844)
https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1844/manuscripts/labour.htm
📺 • Why Marx Was Right: Alienation - PlasticPills
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gPRxxN4Kh30

📖 • Georg Lukács - Chapter 4 of History and Class Consciousness (1923)
https://www.marxists.org/archive/lukacs/works/history/hcc05.htm
📺 • Marxism After Marx: Reification - The Marxist Project
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uZiI-QKxBKI

📖 • Antonio Gramsci - Book 1, Chapter 1 of Selections from the Prison Notebooks (1929)
https://www.marxists.org/archive/gramsci/prison_notebooks/problems/intellectuals.htm
📺 • Hegemony: WTF? An introduction to Gramsci and cultural hegemony - Tom Nicholas
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-LI_2-qsovo

📖 • Louis Althusser - Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses (1970)
https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/althusser/1970/ideology.htm
📺 • Althusser's Concept of Ideology: A Discussion with Anthony Gavin - Acid Horizon
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gtOqXxkKwvw


<Documentaries

The Society of the Spectacle (1974) by Guy Debord
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mjF6I6SYjgA

Manufacturing Consent (1992) by Mark Achbar & Peter Wintonick, with Noam Chomsky
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Li2m3rvsO0I

The Pervert's Guide to Cinema (2006) and The Pervert's Guide to Ideology (2012) by Sophie Fiennes, with Slavoj Zizek
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FYuI4SFw4g0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oBcFLmu_tlc

HyperNormalisation (2016) by Adam Curtis
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4bv3Tr3jvZM&rco


>Easy-Bake Breadtube (for absolute beginners)

We're All Fake Now - Wisecrack
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RTW1mPOJJ_Y

Are Cell Phones Replacing Reality? - PBS Idea Channel
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8AXIAM7dTTg

The Cultural Significance of Cyberpunk - Cuck Philosophy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nvor7hhDKTs

Introduction to Critical Theory for the 21st Century - Nathan Dufour
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e7stVZPGxIw

The Work of Art in the Age of Surveillance Capitalism - Brendan Morris
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aNKiBJJFXZI


<Situationist Archives

https://situationist.org/
https://notbored.org/SI.html
https://bopsecrets.org/SI/index.htm

—————————————————–

RECOMMENDED OP-EDS
I Don’t Want to Be an Internet Person by Ginevra Davis
https://www.palladiummag.com/2022/11/04/i-do-not-want-to-be-an-internet-person/

Pluralistic: Tiktok's enshittification by Cory Doctorow
https://pluralistic.net/2023/01/21/potemkin-ai/#hey-guys

Facebook's Threads is so depressing by Jason O. Gilbert
https://jogblog.substack.com/p/facebooks-threads-is-so-depressing
450 posts and 104 image replies omitted.

File: 1788314447572-2.png (1.19 MB, 954x1200, image.png)

how will people remember trump in 20 years?

>>2904909 (edited again, ok this is the last time i edit and repost this comment)
Yes but it seems, as seen in your evidence that franco suffered parkinson's disease only during the 1960s-1970s. Besides that when I investigated other stuff, it suggests that franco only had very subtle signs of parkinson's disease since 1961 to the mid 1960s (the 1961 hunting trip was the start of it). He also only truly got privately diagnosed with parkisons in 1965.

The whole stabilization plan, which opened the country to western investment, happened two years before the 1961 hunting trip. And the whole transition away from falange ideologues to liberal opus die technocrats started during the late 1950s, too (it started in 1957) Before the early signs of parkinson started appearing.

(of course it could be possible that maybe they (including franco) just hid the parkinson stuff a lot more sucesfully in the late 50s. I mean the separation between 1957 and 1961 is just four years, so there might have been signs of parkinson even back in 1957. So I will investigate that, I guess)

>>2905103
Who's the uygha besides Putin?

>>2905103
Same as people remember Bush today.

>>2905086
even for reactionary slop standards that's a weak stance

>>2905105
>>2904909
> it suggests that franco only had very subtle signs of parkinson's disease since 1961 to the mid 1960s

Also to clarify, Im not saying franco only had subtle signs of parkinsons disease through his whole life. The sentence I wrote here is not conveying what I meant to say which is oof.

What I am saying here is that franco only began to show signs of parkinson starting from 1961 (it was subtle). And then after 1965 the parkinson became super blatant

I will wait for your response if you decide to respond

People on places like 4chan and /r/redscarepod love to make fun of nerds (the Soyjak meme was originally mocking Nintendo fans) but it feels kind of fake? Especially the latter feels like they’re trying to emulate the mean girls that bullied them in high school

At least the nerds are having fun instead of being constantly miserable

>trying to emulate the mean girls that bullied them in high school
That’s the subreddit in a nutshell lmao. One of the most pathetic communities in the internet

File: 1788325968804-9.jpg (421.76 KB, 625x941, 1788324736808974.jpg)

>the assassination of Charlie Kirk
>the killing of Brian Thompson
>violent and chaotic anti-American student protests
>Tesla burnings
>violent attacks on pro-life activists and other right-wingers
>arson attack on Gov Shapiro's home
>the killing of Israeli embassy workers Yaron Lischinsky and Sarah Milgrim
>the killing of Wesley LePatner
>the killings of Melissa and John Hortman
>the racially-motivated killing of Iryna Zarutska
>the shooting attack on the Catholic school in Minneapolis
>the shooting attack on the ICE facility in Dallas
>the shooting attack on the LDS church in Michigan
>the shooting attack in Southport, NC
>National Guard shot outside the White House
>Brown University shooting
>MIT professor killing
>the numerous killings by ICE and mass turmoil in Minnesota
>assassination attempt on Zohran Mamdani
>terrorism attempt at Michigan synagogue
>multiple warehouse arson attacks
>assassination attempt on Sam Altman
>multiple assassination attempts on Trump
>the killing of Erin Piacenti
We have now entered an American Years of Lead without question.

For the past 10 months the deep state has been trying to foment an American Years of Lead, identical to what happened in Italy and Jamaica in the 1970s. They want to see American society be plunged into political chaos, confusion and mass destruction. This will cause the Trump Administration to destabilize and will ensure the Democrats win big in 2028, hence America stays in NATO and the Malthusian abortion lobby is able to keep reducing the human population.

DON’T FALL FOR IT. We do NOT need sporadic political violence but a PEACEFUL TRANSITION to an anti-imperialist government

https://youtube.com/watch?v=qda4JY36BBA [Open]

It's here

>>2905159
I hadn't planned to shoot anybody soon so thanks for the reminder!

>This will cause the Trump Administration to destabilize and will ensure the Democrats win big in 2028, hence America stays in NATO

Lmao

File: 1788339730914-4.png (296.4 KB, 543x390, adam something.png)

Honest to God, who the fuck is Adam Something's target audience?

Who is the audience of people who support what is essentially communist urban planning, but hate communism and believe in unlimited Western imperialism?

>>2905206
Radlibs

>>2905206
Didn't he deny the genocide of Palestinians and kept saying how Ukraine was close to winning two years ago? He is a shitlib and those are shitlib opinions. He has friends like the pedo that is Agent Kochinski

>>2905206
mixed market enjoyers

File: 1788354102243-6.jpeg (78.16 KB, 640x1078, IMG_0188.jpeg)

Can someone edit the Aphex Twin logo on his T-shirt, it would be fucking hilarious

>>2905321
the arch linux logo is funnier

>>2905206
>Who is the audience of people who support what is essentially communist urban planning, but hate communism and believe in unlimited Western imperialism?
dengoids

>>2905321
It's perfect as it is.

Peak redscare post

Contrarianism is every bit as thoughtless as blind conformity

>>2905373
no lie detected

File: 1788359330254-3-0.jpg (205.69 KB, 1087x1084, fuentesnow.jpg)

File: 1788359330254-2-1.png (924.4 KB, 860x861, fuentes2020.png)

Nick Fuentes has underwent total twink death.

>>2905392
Just say Thiel owns your clitty, Nick.

>>2905373
>I feel myself wanting to support [genocidal ethnostate] because idiots push dumb shit about them
That's far more retarded than pushing anything dumb about israel

>>2905206
Average eu socdem

>>2905392
oh my god he looks like an old child, fucking benjamin button-ass looking freak. i didn't know he relied on filters for his stream this badly goddamn. no wonder he hates hasan when he looks like an odd lil fella.

>>2905392
CLASSIC case of when contrarianism becomes conformity.

Bruh.
Why not just bring back the whole cast?

>>2905532
The Bone Temple must have bombed HARD

File: 1788370343940-6-0.png (49.31 KB, 1826x276, Retard 1.png)

File: 1788370343940-2-1.png (104.22 KB, 1793x691, Retard 2.png)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aVNUEIeZX5U

I genuinely don't understand if these are bots or retards. No way a human can be this retarded.

>>2905541
i liked that movie

>>2905612
I did too

>>2905613
for me? its jimmy
howzat

>>2905159
>we need COMMUNITY
<but no not like that
bruh aren't "fandoms" in and of themselves communities? and I guess it's true that you can describe people in "fandoms" as politically disenfranchised because they get their need for community by congregating around a stupid pseud cult of personality talking head, buuuuuut how is that any different from what this dude is doing when you get right down to it?

anyway I more or less found this video to be interesting, especially the idea that an increase in political violence alongside political confusion will destabilize the nation and bring about a de facto "low-wage police state" imperialist regime by default.

>>2905621
"Community" is often overrated and toxic.

>>2904832
>shut up GAMER.
nou 2019 twitter user

Are they really killing Tyler Robinson? He should receive a Pulitzer Prize for that neck fleshlight and the good times 🥲

>>2905667
afaik no, i think their lawyers are going for life sentence or something

Are we seeing a great faux left pivot by major content creators? It's already starting with Milo and Sneako.

>>2905159
None of these things have left a non-consensual mark in american culture. They have been turned into products not a day after occurrence and fuel for the culture war firmly under the control of the bourgeoisie.

The surveillance and police state advances as scheduled, without fear of socialists or anything. It's role is to manage the decay of US hegemony, as it settles, while safeguarding liberal hegemony and maximizing profit for the domestic bourgeoisie. Nobody is training brownshirts in fear of socialist revolution anymore. It's just the boilerplate, the script one has to follow so that when it's done and dusted the "good" socdems can claim to have saved the west from fascism, rather than inheriting the relative peace after the fascists are done liquidating the socialist opposition.

THat's the only transition you are gonna get. And the foreign porky will fuckin' love it and fund your oppressors until you are ripe for the looting, I mean, reduction of poverty.

There ain't no collapse coming, no political crisis, no monetary/financial one and no revolution brewing. And for those who try, you'll die in obscurity until the liberals dig you up to sell a cultural product. You made your beds and you will sleep in them.

File: 1788380337375-5.gif (804.38 KB, 266x427, cretoi-icssmoke.gif)

>>2905206
Reminds me of WhatIfAltHist
He's just saying shit without elaborating or giving a source to anything and jumping from different places and times in history very haphazardly then constructing a strawman of different (often conflicting) interpretations of those events that's supposed to represent everyone in a given group.
But that's basically all pop-history and pop-politics in and out of YouTube

>>2905206
I actually enjoyed him before 2022 with his videos about centrally planned urban transport and his grind against cars.

After 2022 he lost his mind and became Azov Something.

File: 1788381246788-4.png (74.73 KB, 1080x455, BalticSS.png)

Seen these types comments forever. Lots people in this region just have Russia Derangement Syndrome like legit I see people (mostly deranged boomers/ talk about how literally everything is Putin's hybrid operation from diseases to TV outakes and how Russians are genetically evil and they have some power hierarchy that persisted from the Tsarist era to current day"
Here I see some rational people (might just be from being exposed to so much) but it feels the Baltics are just braindead. Somehow they get offended and start talking about "How you don't understand the historical nuance and how le ignorant Westeners just see them as pawns to bigger powers" like they haven't gotten themselves in that position by uncritically aligning themselves with the USA/NATO.


>>2905206
At 7 minutes? What the fuck is wrong with Hasan? He's somehow a liberal but also says shit like this and also the obsession with Jewish exceptionalism like invading and doing settler colonialism in Eastern Europe wasn't already bad enough.

>>2905715
And when you actually know the history and so forth and point out that Russia was right anyway they get mad

>>2905206
>who the fuck is Adam Something's target audience?
That's IMO the wrong question. You see, many "content creators", I'd say most by number, no longer produce for an audience. They produce for a niche, a trend, ideas abstracted behind the data that the social media feeds them. The target audience is whoever the algorithms decide to serve his content to. He's in the business of maximizing that number by convincing the algorithm, not any watcher, that his content is worth propagating..

>>2905206
>Honest to God, who the fuck is Adam Something's target audience?
liberals who like norway

>>2905206
Social democrats (fascists)

>>2905206
>Who is the audience of people who support what is essentially communist urban planning, but hate communism and believe in unlimited Western imperialism?
leftypol

>>2905621
>bruh aren't "fandoms" in and of themselves communities?
I kind of see what he's getting at if you think of fandoms in their usual meaning as people devoted to particular entertainment franchises. He's talking about fandoms around particular "political" influencers but the relationship between a person and the influencer is similar because it's like an entertainment franchise where you consume a particular aesthetic. There's something about that which is kind of like a retreat from politics even if it's an ostensibly political fandom. But I'm not sure just creating an "organization" will really do much because it's happening on a completely different scale. Maupin doesn't like how atomized people are but that probably has to do with a much larger structural forces at work. Like people don't go to churches (as much) anymore but going to church is kind of like trying to shore up a collapsing dam with a shovel. The problem is more that "churches" themselves don't function anymore like they were historically set up to do.

>buuuuuut how is that any different from what this dude is doing when you get right down to it?

What struck me was how he has this self-care kind of ethic, which is another example of a kind of apolitical cope that people do. Think of Jordan Peterson for example. There's also accelerationist stuff or worshipping tech CEOs like Elon Musk as someone who is going to save humanity. Maupin meanwhile says how his group is a community that will "build each other up" and also they have a pro-growth mindset.

>>2905715
>Here I see some rational people (might just be from being exposed to so much) but it feels the Baltics are just braindead.
I don't know whatever crazy theories people have but they don't want to be swallowed up by Russia which is way bigger than them. They declared independence when the Russian Empire collapsed and remained independent until 1940 when the USSR issued an ultimatum, and they had no choice except to give in, then they got swallowed up again. From the Soviet perspective it was for security reasons to shore up their western flank but it was never recognized by anybody else (including China) who basically agreed to treat it like the German occupation of Alsace-Lorraine in the 1800s. Then once the USSR fell apart the Baltic countries bolted for the exits. There are also bad memories of OMON troops shooting people there while trying to hold out in the early 90s.

There has been a lot of this on the Russian frontiers. I was watching some video of man-on-the-street interviews with Azerbaijanis and when asked who their #1 enemy was, a lot of people said Russia, which surprised me. I thought they'd say Armenia.


Unique IPs: 40

[Return][Go to top] [Catalog] | [Home][Post a Reply]
Delete Post [ ]
[ home / rules / faq / search ] [ overboard / sfw / alt ] [ leftypol / edu / labor / siberia / lgbt / latam / hobby / tech / games / anime / music / draw / AKM / ufo / 420 ] [ meta ] [ wiki / shop / tv / tiktok / twitter / patreon ] [ GET / ref / marx / booru ]