le_nelson_mandela_face posted:babyhueypnewton posted:I do think for example cat videos are so popular because cats are unconcerned with capitalism and so their simultaneous alien consciousness and mimicry of human emotions is the only way we can approach ideology as a whole: through irony. When you see a cat dressed up in a suit but not understanding what a suit is, capitalist ideology becomes visible for a moment in our clothes, even if it can only be approached from the unknowable and projected innocence of cat concerns.
Basically cat videos are today's Brechtian theatre where the familiar is made alien to reveal the capitalist violence within cultural objects that is disguised by fetishism. But the left is so weak and compromised by neoliberalism that this alienation effect must be then made familiar through "cuteness" and "memes" which allows such an effect to be absorbed into a system of affective images within the abstract rationality of capitalism and ultimately sold as a commodity when the alien has been fully reabsorbed.
le_nelson_mandela_face posted:i would, but my wife wouldn't (she hates the chinese lol)
babyhueypnewton posted:thirdplace posted:https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2017/02/planet-earth-ii-and-the-fantastic-urban-fox/515958/i liked this
Like every other one of his pieces this starts out with an interesting idea and then goes off the rails. This almost reads like he wrote the first half the the article and then inputted random notes he discarded earlier for being off topic to fill the word count. The first half before the fake biology is quite good though, I think there would be something really important in taking the marxist critique of urban space and de-anthropomorphizing it and possibly even finding room for non-human consciousness in the embedded ideology of the city. I do think for example cat videos are so popular because cats are unconcerned with capitalism and so their simultaneous alien consciousness and mimicry of human emotions is the only way we can approach ideology as a whole: through irony. When you see a cat dressed up in a suit but not understanding what a suit is, capitalist ideology becomes visible for a moment in our clothes, even if it can only be approached from the unknowable and projected innocence of cat concerns. One can easily apply this to cockroaches (who are metaphorically used as nature's indifference to nuclear war and man's concern with his own place in evolution) or zoo animals who are incorporated into liberal politics and resist them.
i agree with the first four sentences entirely, and the rest is the exact sort of batshit crazy I come to the rhiZZOne to love and enjoy. frontpage
babyhueypnewton posted:I hate cats
Sorry mate, cats were cute way before capitalism and they will remain cute after it's destroyed.
vanguard->proletariat->class struggle->socialism
shriekingviolet posted:Each and every one of you is to be considered a spook until you send me your Facebook, LinkedIn, phone number, address, tax returns, and social insurance number.
remember that time khamsek said her new book was "way darker than spooks" and i said "that's racist." good times
pal i hate to break it to you but pic.twitter.com/zaFNZwqhxv
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cars posted:whatever idiot decided not to call it SugarDaddy
SugarDad.ly
https://www.patreon.com/samkriss/posts
Schopenhauer:
I know of no greater absurdity than that propounded by most systems of philosophy in declaring evil to be negative in its character. Evil is just what is positive; it makes its own existence felt. (...) It is the good which is negative; in other words, happiness and satisfaction always imply some desire fulfilled, some state of pain brought to an end.
if you want to determine for yourself that this is true in less than 30 seconds, stop breathing. you will experience suffering, pain, fear. hold your head in a bucket; these will be followed by unconsciousness and death. evil asserts itself in seconds without action. you can argue that this is the deprivation of the good, but this is merely a semantic game - heat as the absence of cold. but cold is the rule, and heat the temporary, localized anomaly. heat is motion, work. air doesn't flow in of its own accord to suffuse your cells, food doesn't spontaneously appear in your belly. without effort to reduce it, positive evil will, by the most iron laws of physics, always triumph
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le_nelson_mandela_face posted:sam kriss recently posted something that i thought he knew better than, something schopenhauer debunked 150 years ago: the notion that evil is negative, "as the absence or deformation of the good. Goodness is whole, complete, and universal, while evil is identified with finitude and lack: the evil of disease is a lack of health, the evil of crime is a lack of order."
hes describing a position there, not endorsing it.
animedad posted:he's an idiot and im glad i called him "unloveable" like 7 years ago, i double down on that.
sam kriss is my dad and i love him
vykromond posted:le_nelson_mandela_face posted:sam kriss recently posted something that i thought he knew better than, something schopenhauer debunked 150 years ago: the notion that evil is negative, "as the absence or deformation of the good. Goodness is whole, complete, and universal, while evil is identified with finitude and lack: the evil of disease is a lack of health, the evil of crime is a lack of order."
hes describing a position there, not endorsing it.
yeah goatstein if you read just a few sentences down you'll see that i'm describing this position only to endorse its opposite
Kant doesnât have humans falling into evil, but rising up from it, unsteadily and always in peril. Later thinkers teased out this notion further. In Adorno, evil is located precisely in the universality that the Neoplatonists called the goodâthe indifferent whole that stamps out all non-identity and flattens everything in its wake. Life under capitalism is the bad life, and every part of itâbad films, bad sex, tedious paperwork, the crushing drudgery of every pointless choreâpartakes of that evil.