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/ISG/ - Internet Spectacle General Anonymous 30-10-24 22:46:38 No.2005272 [View All]

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

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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://designopendata.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/understanding-media-mcluhan.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://libgen.is/book/index.php?md5=DBF3E860993373223D72E98FADF0F2DC
📺 • 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://libgen.is/book/index.php?md5=054E022C8BD24EE2C5595B575BCED7DC
📺 • 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://libgen.is/book/index.php?md5=5BD20E0E22FC8BC2CB4F8A7760D57027
📺 • 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

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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

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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

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Anonymous 14-09-25 21:41:39 No.2480100

>>2480026

Anonymous 14-09-25 21:51:23 No.2480106

>>2480100
Not the guy you're replying to, but I've seen that before, and it makes me wonder what the current state of the communist movement in modern day Russia is.

Anonymous 14-09-25 21:51:43 No.2480107

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Guys were you aware that slavs squatting is a neo-nazi dog whistle

Anonymous 14-09-25 21:54:09 No.2480111

>>2480107
Whoa… are these gentlemen mimicking Nick Fuentes's famous squat?

Anonymous 14-09-25 21:55:34 No.2480114

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Anonymous 14-09-25 22:04:00 No.2480127

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NO WAIT NOT LIKE THAT

Glownonymous 14-09-25 22:31:10 No.2480145

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all that shit about ironic discord memes in bullet casings makes me think of this

Anonymous 14-09-25 22:33:22 No.2480147

>>2480145
Was this the origianl comic? Goddamn. If I ever go out with a bang, it'll be for some cartoonussy for sure.

Anonymous 14-09-25 23:04:41 No.2480192

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>>2480127
>chuvdrussian saboteur Kirk

Anonymous 14-09-25 23:16:54 No.2480204

>>2480147
Even amongst incel mass shooters Randy Stair was on a whole new level of patheticness. The whole incident was the opposite of going out with a bang.

Anonymous 14-09-25 23:22:45 No.2480211

>>2480145
Now that's a deep cut

Anonymous 14-09-25 23:24:36 No.2480214

>>2480204
Well, the motivations gotta count for something, right?

Anonymous 14-09-25 23:54:36 No.2480253

>>2479496
May I bring up the paradox of raping a child and it's okay since you donated to 500 charities?

Anonymous 14-09-25 23:57:42 No.2480257

>>2479496
Actually, do bring it up because you get BTFO'd every time by the fact you can't make an argument for morality without hyper conflating it with some other idealist subjective values system. And I get lots of lols watching you fail.

Anonymous 15-09-25 00:05:21 No.2480271

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LMAOOOOOO

Anonymous 15-09-25 00:09:00 No.2480278

>>2480271
Did they fug?

Anonymous 15-09-25 00:11:12 No.2480285

>>2480278
Rumor has it one of her children is from him.

Anonymous 15-09-25 00:14:44 No.2480288

>>2480271
you think the widow is seething at this?

Anonymous 15-09-25 00:18:10 No.2480292

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Child sextortion rings are fake and gay libtard psyops now

https://kiwifarms.st/threads/bronze-age-pervert-bap-costin-vlad-alamariu-associates-bapists-bapsphere-frogtwitter-greek-statue-twitter-the-talmudic-network.190081/page-91#post-22508740

Anonymous 15-09-25 00:18:42 No.2480293

(KF being the only majorly-known website to actively bring attention to the kind of depraved losers BAP and co. are is really bleak)

Anonymous 15-09-25 00:20:26 No.2480296

>>2480293
Jesse what the fuck are you talking about

Anonymous 15-09-25 00:20:42 No.2480297

>>2480271
Literal Marvel/GoT "emotional moment" fandomslop. Christ.

Anonymous 15-09-25 00:22:40 No.2480301

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>>2480292
HEY LIBTARD

Anonymous 15-09-25 00:24:21 No.2480303

>>2480301
I mean, they've been in favor of that shit for a while now (see the Amarna Forum)

Anonymous 15-09-25 00:24:52 No.2480305

>>2480292
>>2480293
Can you not crosspost from that shithole about some esoteric conspiracy theorist nonsense

Anonymous 15-09-25 00:26:32 No.2480307

https://archive.ph/ArRwk

Read this if you want a good laugh btw

Anonymous 15-09-25 00:45:45 No.2480319

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>>2480271

Anonymous 15-09-25 00:46:20 No.2480320

>>2480319
uff same energy

Anonymous 15-09-25 00:46:24 No.2480322

>>2480303
Aint that the place full of John K fans that The Thing Noticer runs?

Anonymous 15-09-25 00:53:30 No.2480325

>>2480322
He didn't run it, but he was obsessed with it and the people that posted there. A lot of current popular rightoid figures (BAP, Captive Dreamer, hebrewpimps) are downstream from it.

Anonymous 15-09-25 00:54:06 No.2480326

lmao they're doing an (ongoing) 3 hour prayer vigil for Kirk hosted by his organization

Anonymous 15-09-25 00:56:27 No.2480328

>>2480326
zamn. bitch on the thumbnail has got a thicc booty

Anonymous 15-09-25 00:58:32 No.2480329

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posted in memorial

Anonymous 15-09-25 01:02:26 No.2480330

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>>2480292
>Bronze Age Pervert himself retweeted this shit
Retweeted straight onto the US Vice President's feed then http://archive.today/2025.09.11-124257/https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2024/07/jd-vance-silicon-valley-far-right/679058/

Anonymous 15-09-25 01:09:37 No.2480336

>>2480330
>raw egg nationalist
These people build careers on identities that sound like prompts for improv comedy.

Anonymous 15-09-25 01:10:24 No.2480337

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Hey guys, have the mods been censoring the video of that guys assassination?

Anonymous 15-09-25 01:18:37 No.2480342

>>2480319
lmao

Anonymous 15-09-25 01:19:36 No.2480343

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>>2480337
No, here.

Anonymous 15-09-25 01:21:43 No.2480344

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>>2480337
don't think so

Anonymous 15-09-25 01:24:26 No.2480347

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>>2480336
If this guy isn't proof of Judith Butler's theory of gender as a performative field of cultural play…

Anonymous 15-09-25 01:27:24 No.2480349

>>2480271
She was like his only true friend and bro probably still thought she was a subhuman savage on account of her being black 😭

Anonymous 15-09-25 01:27:34 No.2480350

what exactly is a 'reddit kid' ?
Apparently the shooter's classmate described him as a typical reddit kid.

Anonymous 15-09-25 01:27:44 No.2480351

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>>2480347
I mean the right wing may not like that theory but god damn are they working overtime to prove it lol

Anonymous 15-09-25 01:31:31 No.2480355

>>2480350
This is such a reddit kid thing to ask lmao

Anonymous 15-09-25 01:33:12 No.2480356

>>2480350
If you don't know what a reddit kid is, it's you.

Anonymous 15-09-25 01:33:38 No.2480357

>>2480292
Most mentally stable Serial Experiments Lain fan

Anonymous 15-09-25 02:24:10 No.2480407

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>>2480337
nope.

Glownonymous 15-09-25 02:53:26 No.2480426

>>2479439
>>2479210
Comparing technology to crystal worship is part of a stupid liberal impulse to be centrist on everything.
Technology will continue to increase economic efficiency and medical science will get closer and closer to completely conquering death. The real question is if everyone will get a piece or only billionaires.

Anonymous 15-09-25 03:28:08 No.2480447

>>2480426
Conquering death is neither possible nor desirable

Anonymous 15-09-25 03:57:09 No.2480462

>>2480426
>Technology will continue to increase economic efficienc
Does it alway? Because in how the world works cockshot points out the in some respects fuedalism was more efficient with its inputs than capitalism

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