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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.
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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
<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=uFbywfzu-jI
<Simulacra and Simulation (1981) by Jean Baudrillard 📖 •
https://libgen.is/book/index.php?md5=DBF3E860993373223D72E98FADF0F2DC📺 •
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S96e6TdJlNE
>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=9RtV0oO8Pmg
>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
<On Neo-Liberalism and Post-Fordism[Work in progress]
>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 (2006) by Adam Curtis
https://youtu.be/thLgkQBFTPw
<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 - NATHANOLOGY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e7stVZPGxIw—————————————————–
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
>>1902383I think when he started interning for Mastercard
he was also the sort of person that would read one page by some obscure Japanese marxist then change his views because he thought he figured it all out.
>>1902067>moving to israel or japan to escape the U.S.Fucking embarrassing…
>>1902486These people probably have an orientalized view of Arabs and think that every Muslim in America are some sort of Wahhabis. If they wanted to really cook they should donate to some explicitly Islamist charities in the name of saving Gay Palestinians but that would require actual research on the part
>>1902067Can we treat Yanks moving to Japan as gentrifiers now? Like these guys are practically exploiting a weak yen to live in a first world country
>>1902389It's retarded because America had no shortage of populists or progressive leaders. Haz could literally just paste the face of Lincoln and FDR on a flag, maybe add MLK or LBJ too, and there you get a perfectly palatable left wing nationalist aesthetic. Instead they had to tie their movement to a president who was literally endorsed by a klansman
>>1902517the problem is that those people don't appeal to the target audience. they want Trump supporters to think they're cool - if you pick FDR they'll just talk about how FDR did pearl harbor. LBJ? lol, that [redacted]-lover?
aesthetic distance from the existing left is the entire point. it's not an attempt at a serious politics, it's pure online LARP. even if it doesn't appeal to MAGA people because - hilariously - even they're not
that retarded, it helps to sell "MAGA Communists"
themselves on the idea that someone might buy their nonsense, that they're not like the other girls…
This reminds me, I saw someone say the LaRouchies had a way of really promoting the opposite of whatever they claimed to support on the surface at any given time. In the 1980s, they would call themselves "LaRouche Democrats" upholding the FDR legacy, but through their rigmarole were really supporting Reagan through this contrived critical distance, so Reagan is trying to do good for America but the Rockefellers and Trilateral Commission boys are in his administration and we have to get them out to save America. Their lit when George W. Bush was president also focused on Dick Cheney as the agent of Satan, which, okay sure but there's some kind of authoritarian mental block going on with Republican presidents, they can't bring themselves to criticize the "father." But when a Democrat is in power they're out there with posters of Obama with a Hitler mustache.
>>1902521Once a trot always a trot however.
Ask them about China.
Why can you ask them about China?
Because they are at the same protest or demonstration as you are supporting the same thing.
Wierd shit. They're still of the broad left church, or at least one half. Trots do be splitting.
Have a conversation in person with one, they're not awful unless they're the schizo right wing half of the split.
Haz has feet in both churches iirc.
Imagine if trots tried to entryist the republican party and got stuck.
The chinese media treat them sympathetically in a oh gosh it's finally walking on two legs way.
>>1902516who cares if they're "exploiting" a weak yen though? if you want an actual problem you can instantly look to us military presence in japan and the racism and disrespect coming from a lot of expats.
>>1902383Called himself a libertarian Leninist and got memed on forever for it
>>1902542Damn he's done such great work since The Crow
>>1900699why does he have a profile pic that looks like he's shitting?
>>1902590the sentinelese would probably just dismantle it to make spear tips from the aluminium frame and such
>>1902590What is it about people who are unalienated from their labor that pisses off rightoids so much? Is it jealousy? The NS Islanders are certainly living more "trad" than anyone poating about it
>>1902609They have committed the worst sin of all: being not white
>>1902590the last people to go there died, as if this richfag ever would
>>1902590I hope they kill him
>>1902609He's a Christfag, that explains a lot.
>>1902632That's what happened to the last guy who tried to tell them how to live their lives.
>>1902590not gonna happen
dumb tweet made for basement-dwelling chvds to like and retweet so they can convince themselves of how epic chvd they are
>>1902486is SGDQ even explicitly supporting an explicit pro-palestine org? i know MSF is on the ground in gaza, but like it's not even like a palestinian liberation org, is it
>>1902669They're just making fun of the trans and the woke, I doubt they have any actual thoughts about MSF.
>>1902590If he actually intended to do this, he wouldn't be posting about it, since it is illegal to go there. He is probably counting on getting arrested, as soon as he enters India, so he can once again get attention for being detained in a foreign country.
>>1902950"you're no better than pol so just stop posting here and post on pol"
>>1900712Kutsuzure Sensen - Majo Vasenka no Sensou
Its cute read, not too anti communist. Though does Pedo Beria
>>1902985I don't get it, did Cuckson Twinkle buy a car and billed it to Zelensky?
>>1903138And uyghas here still claim that TERFs are leftists…
>>1903138this is on a whole other level of repulsive, at least /pol/tards are fun to observe to an extent, this ghoul is casually talking about AN ORGY OF BLOOD and how she's "definitely a nazi lol". like how do you talk about that shit in normal officespeak as if you were talking about getting breakfast. this is especially concerning considering her media ties. i'm not a conspiracyfag usually but this is literally secret nazi cult shit in a position of relative cultural influence. what the fuck
the fact that she was posting this on whatsapp of all places and still tried to bring a libel claim forward is a little funny tho
>>1903186Basically everyone in the media is like this in this country
https://youtu.be/_9oYDQ8357A?t=2022yeah this guy is fucking unwatchable now
imagine actually defending the "MY SON DIED IN IRAQ :'(((" lie from biden just because it's someone on fox news calling it out
retarded liberal
>>1903219Holy shit I thought she looked familiar but I couldn't place my finger on why. She really does have that Keith Woods vibe.
>>1903219>>1903227Keith has the smaller forehead and less chin
>>1903224Average British woman
>>1903248I hope they just go full on public fascist and drag the TERF movement with them, would put the British political circlejerk class in an awkward (and hilarious) Bidenesque position
>>1903219>>1903138>>1903248Why do these people so often look so weird and gross? Is it a product of some warped aesthetic sense where they choose to present themselves in the worst possible way?
>>1903255That's already happening. JK Rowling recently did some holocaust denial, trying to claim the nazis were gay actually and that targeting gay people and burning gay books was made up.
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