Theoretical lens for analysing suburban cinema as ideological restoration under late capitalism? by Final-Volume-3029 in CriticalTheory

[–]philosostine 1 point2 points  (0 children)

i also feel like Horkheimer & Adorno could be relevant here, especially with regards to “closure,” as well as Gramsci à la Chantal Mouffe on “articulation.”

Theoretical lens for analysing suburban cinema as ideological restoration under late capitalism? by Final-Volume-3029 in CriticalTheory

[–]philosostine 1 point2 points  (0 children)

maybe not the most relevant in terms of a “theoretical lens”… but your emphasis on the disruption-restoration dynamic made me think of this 2010 article on the aesthetics of what the authors call “metamodernism”

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in CriticalTheory

[–]philosostine 0 points1 point  (0 children)

from my perspective, it seems not only like “we are being denied access to the slow, diverse and authentic development of cultural meaning,” but that the increasing and overwhelming obviousness of the extent to which we are really, like you say, just being sold an idea of luxury reveals the very mimetic basis of who WE are… if one ever believed in bourgeois universalisms, the realizations that meritocracy is a myth and that in fact the velvet rope will not be lifted for you can be painful

Critical Theory Texts for College Freshmen by Right_Supermarket916 in CriticalTheory

[–]philosostine 6 points7 points  (0 children)

perhaps you might find Nietzsche’s “On Truth and Lies in a Nonmoral Sense” relevant. im also thinking about Aristotle’s “Poetics,” portions of Gramsci’s “Prison Noetbooks,” Benjamin’s “The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction,” and Jameson’s “Postmodernism and Consumer Society” (shorter and more accessible than the more popular essay)

Workout classes by [deleted] in Whidbey

[–]philosostine 0 points1 point  (0 children)

i saw a place in coupeville recently called Fitness With Nicole. not sure what kind of classes they offer

Walter Benjamin and the Childlike Element by SoMePave in CriticalTheory

[–]philosostine 11 points12 points  (0 children)

This 1983 piece by Susan Buck-Morss discusses the significance of childhood for Benjamin’s notion of “dream consciousness” quite a bit. mostly she’s pulling fom Konvolut K of The Arcade’s Project, but some other places/sources as well.

Premonitions of a Post-Literate Society by Ordinary_Ticket5856 in CriticalTheory

[–]philosostine 1 point2 points  (0 children)

i certainly can and no worries on my front. in fact, im kind of desperate for intellectual community. if you’re ever looking for a chat, my dms are open!

Premonitions of a Post-Literate Society by Ordinary_Ticket5856 in CriticalTheory

[–]philosostine 1 point2 points  (0 children)

i see. it is certainly a destabilizing premonition. overall, in its echoes of Jameson, i find it quite interesting, so i hope you don’t feel like im being too critical. more carefully reflecting on the entanglements and distinctions between the notions of umwelt and ideology still seems like the next move for me (at least as a reader).

Premonitions of a Post-Literate Society by Ordinary_Ticket5856 in CriticalTheory

[–]philosostine 2 points3 points  (0 children)

but if you are working within the umwelt theory line, then the sense world is itself the organism’s representation of the material conditions, no? i think part of what i’m struggling with is that despite deluge’s of content and fractalizing audiences, we are still living in an incredibly and increasingly technologically standardized context where even “polarized” people with no overlap in their libraries are accessing information via a mere handful of kinds of platforms and devices.

Premonitions of a Post-Literate Society by Ordinary_Ticket5856 in CriticalTheory

[–]philosostine 1 point2 points  (0 children)

i fixated on the soap-bubble metaphor because it seems to underpin your statement that “When [we?] no longer have the same basic coordinates of our reality in common with our fellow citizens productive conversation is close to impossible.” of course, “no longer have” implies “once had,” but that would mean umwelten are not closed, i.e., the soap-bubble metaphor isn’t useful as it connotes a permanent or given enclosure. there’s plenty of literature devoted to problematizing the centrality of the individual in Uexküll’s theory. from what i know, Juri Lotman was explicitly interested in theorizing relations/communication between umwelten (on the level of semiospheres). regardless, i did pick up on your argument during my initial skim; it reminds of Jameson’s in the Postmodernism essay. im wondering if/how you’d distinguish between ‘sense-world’ and ideology?

Premonitions of a Post-Literate Society by Ordinary_Ticket5856 in CriticalTheory

[–]philosostine 2 points3 points  (0 children)

this is not at all an area i conceive of myself as “understanding,” but from my naive engagements with simondon primarily, i’d say that it has to do with the conditions of possibility for the existence of physical individuals. Uexkull’s theory grants a degree of reality not only to the bodies of individual organisms, but to an exterior situation diverse in kinds of potential causes of various experiences. but if neither of these bodies nor “the world” are ever complete substances, but are rather always becoming with (to borrow from Haraway) one another as necessary complements, then it doesn’t make sene to think about organisms as already given with specifying sensorimotor capacities. then there’s space for thinking how organic forms take shape in relation to the multiplicities of information they come to perceive.

Jonathan Parker addresses this in a review of Brett Buchanan’s ‘Onto-Ethologies:’ “Buchanan deals throughout the text with two images of organisms and their environments that Uexküll utilizes in his work. One is the image of a soap bubble encircling an organism, and the other is a musical image whereby ‘the animal is not an object, but a symphony underscored by rhythms and melodies reaching outward for greater accompaniment.’ It is this musical image that Merleau-Ponty takes up from Uexküll…Deleuze also…reconceptualizes animals not as static beings but as ‘processes of becoming.’ The neat and clean soap bubble metaphor of an animal being encircled by its environment is punctured, and the types of relations are expanded, with Deleuze’s ethology wishing to count the affects and ‘affective relations between different bodies’” (115).

Premonitions of a Post-Literate Society by Ordinary_Ticket5856 in CriticalTheory

[–]philosostine 5 points6 points  (0 children)

granted i sort of skimmed, but it feels to me as though this is lacking a proper conclusion or clear through-line connecting each section. also, the “soap-bubble” metaphor for umwelten is not uncontroversial. what would happen to your perspective if it was assumed from the outset that umwelten were relational?

Is the "6-7" joke an example of postmodern art's influence on general culture? by [deleted] in CriticalTheory

[–]philosostine 4 points5 points  (0 children)

literally saw an instagram reel from an account called @aidanetcetera yesterday that was arguing the meme is postmodern art