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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://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=FYuI4SFw4g0https://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>>2890276Kav is based, yes.
>>2890277Fat people can’t be based
>>2890329He's not even fat.
>>2890267This isn't about free time and taste changing with age. The entire consumer base could consist of 14 year olds and you'd have the same issue.
20 years ago every release beyond being (relatively) novel was also a step forward technically. I don't recall anyone soyfacing back in the day over Crysis because of its captivating story. It was new and it looked amazing compared to anything before it.
Nowadays every game release has to compete with thousands and thousands of releases (see the report), both stuff which was already out there and stuff being currently released. It's a cutthroat competition for attention span, where it's difficult to differentiate yourself by being "next gen".
This maybe isn't as important for lone indie dev hobbyists or slopware producers, where either the costs are low or you aren't looking to make much profit anyway. Nor is it for the big studios with billions of dollars in revenues. But it is for the mid segment, where you need to find millions or dozens of millions $ from investors willing to wait years for a payoff, in a market saturated with AAA releases, some a decade old and still holding up.
And given the choice of doing a remake or sequel for a series that's already known (and knowing fans will buy the next installment), or risking hundreds of millions of dollars on a new IP + advertising, big studio execs are gonna pick the first over the latter.
>>2890329He's actually quite fit if you haven't seen his videos.
>>2890231What's up with you calling BE a pedo every time he's mentioned? It's kinda weird bro
>>2890276it was anti idpol in 2016 but the situation has changed
>>2890276what's the kavernacle have to do with this place?
>>2890423More like t.badenchilada
>>2889359>years of "but where will my video games come from under socialism?">capitalism kills video gamesPotpourri
>>2890340bro is a malding seppo zionist like ethan klein
>>2889359And leftcoms say capitalism is no longer historically progressive.
>>2890691I'm glad I never got my politics from twitter or youtube.
>>2890691Feels like astroturfed
>>2889591true but nobody does. unless you mean metaphorical soul like soul music
>>2890691least obvious israeli psyop
>>2890752>>2890763sorry the deprogram has outlived its purpose as the slightly left of chapo podcast. the next podcast will be even more communist and so on until every podcaster basically is badempanada
>>2890778she's a baddie but polcels hate the art hoe look because it is a cultural signifier for everything they hate
>>2890691Ultimate confirmation that BE is just a Haz infracel tier leftoid but without the American patriotism
The fact is Zorhan represents basic social democracy and a basic level of opposition to genocide.
Normal, sane people on the left should be able to recognise the following as all being true:
>1 - Zorhan is by his policy positions a social democrat, more or less the type of politician you'd find in Scandinavia or the like, and not a socialist
>2 - His positions do not nearly go far enough to achieve real socialism in any sense, he is ultimately a Democrat and shares in many of their values, but at the very least he isn't totally controlled by Israel, which is good
>3 - That means he is still a big improvement when directly contrasted to his campaign rivals and the general calibre of US politicians
>4 - The USA is the imperial core, the beating heart of capitalism, and is as far from any real socialist movement seizing any power as its possible to be, therefore any minor victory even by social democrat reformists such as Zorhan is likely to get a lot of media coverage
>5 - It's totally okay recognise and like the small improvements made by social democrats of the DSA within US capitalism for what they are - inadequate but at least something in the right direction - and you can recognise this, you can even like Zorhan as a person, without needing to suck off the Democrats / DSA / Social Democrats
>6- Unfortunately people like The Deprogram, Hasan Piker, Kulinski, Agent Kochinski, earn their living funnelling people into the Democrats and promoting / angrily defending any and all DSA / non-AIPAC Dems who get close to winning an election, no matter how evil they are (see: Platner)
>7 - And on the other hand, 3rd worldists like BE will always look for an opportunity to make a video ripping into you if you ever say a single positive word about the little improvements social democrats make because they are drama farmers
>>2890780BE ain't communist, he's a 3rd world nationalist.
>>2890778she is hot, by USA standards, by not being obese
>>2890851She's hoy by all standards bro
>>2890799>The fact is Zorhan represents basic social democracy and a basic level of opposition to genocide.I dont want to sound like a dick but I'm not sure if I care if he "represents" anything (specially social-democracy lol but whatever), I guess it depends on how you understand that word
>but at the very least he isn't totally controlled by Israel, which is goodI'm sure plenty of other US politicians are not "totally controlled by Israel" and their collaboration with the zionist project is more willing than coercive
>That means he is still a big improvement when directly contrasted to his campaign rivals and the general calibre of US politicians I can agree he seems to be an improvement, big? lets take it easy
also this "basic level of opposition to genocide" thing sounds to me like a marketing term for "less collaboration with genocide", sorry, but as you said he is just a democrat at the end of the day
>It's totally okay recognise and like the small improvements made by social democrats of the DSA within US capitalism for what they are - inadequate but at least something in the right direction
I think its ok to recognise if he does good things for workers but Zohran has openly stated his whole thing is making the democratic party great again, I don't think thats the right direction
basically I dont think burgers should kill this guy but I don't think "normal, sane people on the left™" should support him beyond saying "yeah he is ok I guess"
>>2890691complaining about the paywall is absurd: if you care enough to listen buy a subscription. they charge fuck all and across all platforms it looks they barely make enough to pay a salary.
attacking mamdani is pointless: he gives yanks a model of a successful socialist leader. everyone knows he's going to be sidelined or ejected through some obscure (or invented) mechanism. arresting netanyahu or ending the west bank land sales isn't happening any time soon. there's more than enough legal justification, but if he actually ran the play he'd have to deal with:
>police insubordination: the jewish community gives so much money to the NYPD through various charities and associated organizations the FBI had to investigate them. wealthy zionists, NYPD leadership, and the police union all have a direct line to the reactionary press.>federal interference: you get the NYPD to jam them up, but then the FBI or some other bureau comes in to jam you up.>hostile prosecutor: you bust bibi or the scammers selling illegal conflict real estate, but when you get them in front of the state prosecutor she vacates the charges, furious at the manure you've dumped on her desk.>dem excommunication: they already didn't like you, but now they're going to use their media and legal teams to end you.my understanding is that currently protesting is allowed with an exclusion zone from synagogue entrances, and this won't change anytime soon. given the limitations that's not a bad deal: the popular movement gets to continue without being criminalized and the the radicals weren't going to respect any boundaries set by the state anyway.
it's going to hurt like a bitch when he betrays everyone, but there's better targets and there's no reason to do the zionists dirty work by attacking him.
>>2890984im not promoting anyone i just found the use of ai + orchestrated botted likes backed narrative uncanny
>>2890839multipolaristas and democrat dickriders have turned this into a de facto right-wing website, its over
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>>2891034I mean I guess, I'm sure this is already happening though, this is just an especially sloppy case
>>2890785It's a fine line between keeping up legitimate criticism of right deviations and engaging in left wing deviations yourself. I haven't heard the comments of the Deprogram guys so I can't comment on what they said or the response to it, but people have a tendency to blow comparatively mild statements out of proportion. Somebody will say something like "The DSA represents a major step towards class consciousness and could lay the groundwork for a new socialist movement" and people respond by accusing them of loving AOC and Chuck Schumer.
>>2890972Wow. That's crazy. Amerikkka is cyberpunk dystopia.
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