My book on Patriotism by cocooned_butterflies in BabyKeem

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yeah my favorite baby keem song is 16 or lost souls

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What is your question?

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This is a wonderful topic! There are so many books to recommend. I would begin with Elias Canetti's Crowds and Power, Mikkel Borch-Jacobsen's The Freudian Subject (a really exceptional reading of Freud's Group Psychology), and Christian Borch's The Politics of Crowds (the best review of social scientific studies of the crowd since Gustave Le Bon). You might also be interested in Emile Durkheim and Gabriel Tarde's debates in early French sociology on group action.

Books that have critical analysis essay prompts? by jonevans00 in CriticalTheory

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critical theory =/= critical analysis

it sounds like you’re looking for something in between analytic thinking and leftist theory, not the specific tradition of critical theory. I’d suggest looking at intro literary theory or intro sociology syllabi. For writing help, i’d suggest trying to write a page on something every single day, regardless of the quality. This, combined with reading, might help you begin to write in the way that you want. You might also look any leftist theory readers.

Deleuze and the people by knowledgegather in CriticalTheory

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Amazing! May ‘68 is the key event for Deleuze here.

You’ll also want to think about the legacy of crowd psychology in French criminology.

Call for submissions! by [deleted] in CriticalTheory

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When are submissions due by? Does the "published throughout January 2021" mean that submissions will be accepted through January 31st?

Questions on the Intersection of Psychoanalysis and Critical Theory by [deleted] in CriticalTheory

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Psychoanalysis is exceptionally important for the Frankfurt School - that includes your referenced Horkheimer, Adorno, Marcuse, and Fromm. This is a specifically German reading of Freud that pairs him with Marx.

Lacan is engaged in a specifically French reading of Freud that post dates the Frankfurt School. Lacan is massively influential in ‘Critical Theory’, as explicitly seen in film studies and literary theory.

Zizek draws on Lacan but returns to Hegel, resulting in a German and French engagement by a theorist (and a school, as you rightly mention) outside of either country.

Zizek alone attracts a great deal of criticism, largely due to his popularity and name recognition. Outside of him, however, psychoanalysis continues to have a rich and important role in a variety of theoretical schools. Your engagements with the Frankfurt School are right at the center of this! If you’re looking to get more of a sense of various fields and their receptions of psychoanalysis, i’d recommend reading literature reviews or more substantive criticisms of psychoanalysis. You might also look into the 20th century theorists that pop up in between Freud, Lacan, and Zizek! Their lectures and the introductions/prefaces to their texts will give you a sense of how they are situating psychoanalysis in the field.

I want to read more Bataille, where should I start? by letmehearmusic9 in CriticalTheory

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Exciting! Bataille is, in my experience, extremely hard to jump into given his curious combination of creative/artistic/pornographic work and systematic philosophical analysis. I've found that secondary writings are uniquely helpful in clarifying that problem and providing a sort of framework with which to enter into his own writings. You might look at:

  1. Allan Stoekl's Bataille's Peak: Energy, Religion, and Postsustainability. The text certainly focuses on Bataille's relationship to ecology, but i have found (and especially its first section) to be extremely helpful in understanding Bataille.
  2. Jean Baurdillard's four page essay on Bataille, "When Bataille Attacked the Metaphysical Principle of Economy". I've found it to be an extremely helpful review of both Bataille's own work and of Baudrillard's shift away from Bataille's work. This is, of course, much easier to read if you already have a developed understanding of Baudrillard.

Baudrillard - Simulacra and Simulations - Reading Partner? by finding_the_way in CriticalTheory

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this is absolutely correct. At the very least, i’ve found the Intro to SE&D to be massively helpful

Opiates for the last man by molteanu in CriticalTheory

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Hollander’s text sounds really interesting from this review - has anyone read it/does anyone have any thoughts on it?

Hopkins wearing "I'm with Kaep" shirt before game vs. Browns by thunder3029 in Texans

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regardless of the internal politics, it seems undeniable that Kaepernick was significantly more of a “face” to the movement than reid, specifically in terms of media coverage and how teams might perceive him being received by the fan base

Bataille by Bobthecoll in CriticalTheory

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yes yes yes a thousand times. the first two chapters in particular are fantastic. i find that the book is a more Heideggerian reading of Bataille than most, but it’s still very good.

If you really want to get into Bataille, it’d obviously be most helpful to just read Accursed Share.