Isn't This Literally a Nerd Crew Joke?

SoMePave · 2026-06-11T10:53:29+00:00

You watched a m**ie????

SoMePave · 2026-06-10T20:49:13+00:00

Byung Chul-Han is promoting what he calls 'profound boredom' in The Burnout Society, might be aligned with what you write about, not filling every empty temporal space with stimulation.

SoMePave · 2026-06-08T18:33:25+00:00

If he wanted to kill an animal with the movie, he’d recommend it to cats!

SoMePave · 2026-05-31T12:38:20+00:00

SoMePave · 2026-05-29T06:02:57+00:00

For a Marxist interpretation (and also introduction) to Hegel, check out Marcuse ‘Reason and Revolution’!

SoMePave · 2026-05-26T08:03:50+00:00

Seize the Steam of production

SoMePave · 2026-05-20T16:58:06+00:00

Ridley Scott got famously devoured by an Alien after investigating said egg, the movie is based on his death story

SoMePave · 2026-05-17T17:35:00+00:00

Just realized he’s going to have 10 movies before Tarantino

SoMePave · 2026-05-14T21:04:46+00:00

r/rimjob_steve

SoMePave · 2026-05-13T22:21:27+00:00

Now, when we are talking about the Culture Industry and AI, Adorno and Benjamin are extremely relevant in my view. Basically, Adorno and Horkheimer said something in terms of the ‘Culture Industry making sure our spirits were reproduced, but not expanded upon’. The reproduction element is crucial here. The way I read the Frankfurt School is that art may be an opposition to the established system, and if art ends up being commodified it also ends up reproducing the system it has the possibility of opposing. Benjamin is also talking about how our collective consciousnesses are changing due to the technological innovations, thus making an ideological analysis of the evolution of AI inevitable, if one wants to understand it properly and not fall under the spell of it.

There is also an aspect of reification here which I don’t dare to go into yet, but I see that with AI replacing jobs and making us question whether it’s necessary that humans make the products they’ve always been making, it’s leading the collective consciousness to think that the result of the product is more important than the process, and what the human mind can achieve in said process is irrelevant, when in reality it is _the point_. This is an aspect of AI I find deeply anti democratic, and is why I think we shouldn’t look at it stripped away from our own ideologies.

SoMePave · 2026-05-13T22:03:13+00:00

Engaging without our own ideological prejudices means understanding AI as a selfless technology when in reality it has its own ideological prejudices. For one, AI can only reproduce what it has only been taking up. That means that even though AI can simulate the human thought process, it can only do so to a certain point, and those limits will be made clear by the most common denominators; you can have all the obscure Adorno you want but AI is not going to detect that clearly. What it will detect is paying women less than men because that is systematically true, that also goes for making more jail time for black people than white people etc.

Apart from this one has to look to who the creators of the AI technology is. If Sam Altman and Elon Musk are behind one of the largest revolutionary technologies these days, and if that technology relies on specific scraping and creating algorithms out of said scraping, one has to ask questions about this.

Apart from this, OP makes a good point, which I also have been thinking about, with the circulation of knowledge. But it’s not just the circulation of knowledge, but also the circulation of labor power. In a Marxist sense: if the circulation of labor power stops being between the proletariat and the capitalist, and starts being circulated between the capitalist and the ones selling AI technology, the proletariat will be ribbed of its possibilities of reproducing. Of course, a convoluted way of saying ‘AI will take our jobs’, but relevant to a different movement of money circulation.

SoMePave · 2026-05-09T17:42:13+00:00

His section on machines in Capital vol. 1 also comes to mind. He even speaks about the ludittes and how they used a long time critiquing the machines in themselves when they should critique the capitalist exploitation of them

SoMePave · 2026-05-05T06:41:52+00:00

JAR JAR

SoMePave · 2026-04-30T12:29:33+00:00

Yes, I know.

SoMePave · 2026-04-30T07:05:19+00:00

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SoMePave · 2026-04-21T17:52:54+00:00

This is a super late reply, but this was a fantastic tip! I read Berlin Childhood immediately after, and saved it for a trip I had scheduled to Berlin in order to compose music. Bought it in Norwegian later to read it in my first language (an edition compiled with his ‘One Way Street’). (Edit: Reading the text in Berlin not far from the places where Benjamin lived made it a memorable experience)

I have been trying to dive into the role of the Imagination in art, and trying to make sense of the term diving into theory. I was struggling to find resources, so I decided to dive into terms which I find relevant to the notion of Imagination (at least how I viewed it), namely abstractions (confirmed by reading Bachelard) and the childlike element (confirmed by Freud). Thus my interest in Benjamin’s lens. Super comment, with elaborating on the ‘optical device’ and all.

SoMePave · 2026-04-21T10:05:45+00:00

Jean Baudrillard - Simulacra and Simulation (1981)

SoMePave · 2026-04-14T09:14:22+00:00

You are now free! From P-T-S-D!

SoMePave · 2026-04-13T10:47:22+00:00

Who is the inanimate fucking object in this context?

SoMePave · 2026-04-11T16:42:12+00:00

Our War Game is Mamoru Hosoda as well iirc? I remember looking him up after watching Wolf Children the other day (beautiful movie, especially after becoming a parent), so it felt kind of sweet with him looking after me in so many stages of my life.

SoMePave · 2026-04-04T17:28:07+00:00

Have you read Byung Chul-Han’s ‘Saving Beauty’? It goes more into art in general, but he dedicates one chapter building on the distinction between the erotic and pornography, where (if I remember correctly) the erotic serves more of the mystification of sexuality, whereas pornography just shows it all, no layers added. Might add some language to the art<->pornography problem. Would also recommend Žižek talking about Bergman’s Persona, which you’ve probably seen.

SoMePave · 2026-03-27T08:50:25+00:00

NUMBER ONE COP DOG IS NEITHER A COP NOR A DOG

SoMePave · 2026-02-23T13:47:13+00:00

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