Immersion Criticism/Syncromysticism/Schizoanalysis

luka

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first came across this here
http://www.thewire.co.uk/in-writing/the-portal/excepter_s-portal
there's a article for dummies here
http://grantland.com/features/documentary-year/
where ive stolen the phrase 'immersion criticism' from.
i dont read d&g or know what they mean by schizoanalysis but im stealing it for this because it appeals to the schizoid and the full blown schizophrenic or mimics the schizophrenics mode of thinking.
The best blog I know for it is here
http://groupnameforgrapejuice.blogspot.co.uk/2015/12/meereschal-macmuhun-moon-child-me-3.html
and there's also
http://www.collativelearning.com/the shining.html
mentioned in the wire piece.

There's precursors to it in Hugh Kenner, a writer Craner introduced to me, and in his teacher, Marshall Mcluhan, and, to a lesser degree, his acolyte, Guy Davenport.
You can see it in Pound's reading of the troubadours and Robert Anton Wilson's reading of James Joyce.
It's cousin to the way my friend Mark didn't just play Skyrim
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Elder_Scrolls_V:_Skyrim
he invented characters, built back stories and motivations and played the game in character, performing no action his character would blanch at, even once building a vegetarian character!

You can see it in a lurid, monomanical (and probably cyncial form) in my favourite film review website here
http://vigilantcitizen.com/moviesandtv/return-oz-creepy-disney-movie-blatantly-mind-control/

it's my favourite thing and it makes conventional criticism look grey, incurious and one dimensional.
 

baboon2004

Darned cockwombles.
i've only read snatches of the articles you linked to, but seems this is all somewhere between conspiracy theory and the (long overdue) acknowledgement that both the artist's subconscious and the viewer's subconscious are invoked in any reading of a piece of art. Art is just a catalyst for exploration.

Re geopolitics - you mean overturning the idea that geopolitical decisions are taken exclusively on a rational basis (which is still an almost ubiquitous idea)?
 

Leo

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naval-gazing privileged folk with too much time on their hands, go take a walk outside goddamnit!
 

luka

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naval-gazing privileged folk with too much time on their hands, go take a walk outside goddamnit!

Well perhaps, but of all the potential responses to those essays that's undoubtedly the least interesting, the least productive and the least smart.
 

luka

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Re geopolitics - you mean overturning the idea that geopolitical decisions are taken exclusively on a rational basis (which is still an almost ubiquitous idea)?

Could be, but not exclusively.
 

Leo

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Well perhaps, but of all the potential responses to those essays that's undoubtedly the least interesting, the least productive and the least smart.

i guess i'll need to include a row of smiley faces at the end next time. :eek:;):D:rolleyes:
 

luka

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Oops sorry were you joking? That's most people's straightfaced response so assumed you were serious
 

baboon2004

Darned cockwombles.

thanks. I used to work with a guy who wrote a lot about those oil and gas pipelines as they related to central Asia. super-complicated, as the article reflects. The link to immersion criticism - do you mean the way these articles endorse political realism to an extent that some might dub it conspiracy theory?

And that Return to Oz review - that film seemed to have been made with the express intent of traumatising children. Couldn't believe it when I saw it on the BBC at about 3 in the afternoon.
 
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Mr. Tea

Let's Talk About Ceps
And that Return to Oz review - that film seemed to have been made with the express intent of traumatising children. Couldn't believe it when I saw it on the BBC at about 3 in the afternoon.

That and Watership Down, jesus. :eek:
 
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