luka
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stripped the exterior phenomenal world of its libidinal attraction
or shifted it to the screen. literally as in the case of pornography, or qualitatively.
it is simply a question of where you are getting your needs met
stripped the exterior phenomenal world of its libidinal attraction
or shifted it to the screen. literally as in the case of pornography, or qualitatively.
I've noticed that a lot of the music that explicitly deals with what luka's talking about tends to be terrible and the ideas behind it don't really come through, you just know it's about that stuff because it often comes with an overwritten press release which references social media, 'fake news', 'information overload' and the rest.
Phenomenologically, looking at screens all day alters the way in which you see, casts a veil over immediate connection to reality. I find my eyes take longer and longer to adjust to outside light, the more I sink into that world of screens. The screens end up feeling realer than the outside world at a very visceral level, and I'm sure this is part of the addictive quality of the digital (along with everything else)
The political aspect to this is to get people to produce or consume digital value for as much of the day as possible. Literally like extending your shift in a factory and then going late night shopping in a mall.
The political aspect to this is to get people to produce or consume digital value for as much of the day as possible. Literally like extending your shift in a factory and then going late night shopping in a mall.
One aspect of Internet porn is the deluge of amateur-porn, isn't it? All those porntube sites seem to be brimming with it. Voyeurs and exhibitionists running amok.
"The aim of autotune R&B is the mechanical reproduction of a regressive moment, a castration symbolism. 'Give up your masculinity, let yourself be castrated,' the eunuchlike sound of the autotune both mocks and proclaims, 'and you will be rewarded, accepted into a fraternity which shares the mystery of impotence with you, a mystery revealed at the moment of the initiation rite."
deleuzians think its machines all the way down, btw. so a deleuzian response to this issue might be to say that we're getting nearer to the threshold whereby the fundamental identity between man and the soulless machine is becoming inescapable on all sorts of cultural levels
worth teasing out but i despair of ever getting vimothy to open up to us.
I think humans thrive off of chaos, we need it and it nurtures us. Heard about some study comparing two almost identical housing blocks with people from similar socio-economic backgrounds, one with foliage about and one with nothing, the one lacking in nature saw complete breakdown, depression, illness etc. Drugs, food and whole host of other things attest to the complete inability of our brains to know whats good for them, we will happily continue to consume and self-destruct.
The further things around us are abstracted from chaos the harder it is to create, whether it be the literal surroundings our social interactions or music the itself, chaos is only created via recursion.
deleuze is like an extended footnote on marx. just read the grundrisse instead.
possibly relevant quote from Mark K-punk
"What we have with digital culture now is a strange hyper-ordinariness. People done up to the nines but it isn't like Bowie where you're playing with abstract aestheticisation. It's a normative model: perfect teeth, skin tone. An utterly conservative artificiality... A normalisation of photoshopping & cosmetic surgery: a wash-back from digital, people's anxiety about their appearance is measured by the standards of a depressing normativity. Neuroses & dissatisfaction are highly productive & useful for capitalism: they can be sold to endlessly"
what could be called "subglam" - the pixel-by-pixel polishing of the image in TV postproduction (a/k/a digital intermediate) - smoothing out blemishes and spots, evening out skin-tone, superglossing hair and teeth - that has fed back into everyday life... ordinary people look hyper-groomed.... all those intricate beards.... as if aspiring to digital sharpness and brighness
not true. it's all nietzsche and is anti-dialectical
i don't really understand what it would be to be a Deleuzian in the political sense. in some senses his work can be seen against that, that whole break with ossified french communist party marxism which put everything in geometric greek categories.
in Antiquity you would've been a darned good priest of a Dionysian mystery cult centered on hallucinogens, and snakes or bulls or something
i am not enough of a historical god to say either way whether the advent of coinage was the genesis of abstract thought, a thought that takes on an alienable existence from the hand.
i think that is the perspective that is the most logical. but i am only 25 years old.