K-Punk

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sus

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These podcast Americans seem to hate themselves / each other. Really bleak stuff. "Well yeah, obviously..." type undercuts left and right.
 
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sus

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luka said:
he used to be a famous blogger in the heronbone era as historians have taken to calling it
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That's what they used to call it, the more up to date term is the Pre-Gus Blogosphere, not to be confused with the Post-Gus Blogosphere. (Sometimes shortened to B.G.E, A.G.E for Before Gus and After Gus Era)
 
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thirdform

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I suppose this was always a danger given his fixation on mythical pasts and futures.
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Not only that, but his obsessive deleuzian empiricism, the rational as the real, banish the irrational back to the dark age like a good fucking liberal. There are definitely liberal and right wing aspects in his work, I'm surprised it took this long for these melts to realise it. In fact its nauseating to see people like xenogothic treat him as a Marxist when he couldn't even get basic marxist categories right.

I know some people were friends with him on this forum but given the recent turn of this place its time to reckon with the poisonous groundwell he set for this sort of alt right nonsense to thrive.
 
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version

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Did k-punk ever have any doubts about his filtering things through pop culture? I'm assuming he did, but I don't think I've come across any writing where he directly addresses it.
 
dilbert1

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I’d be interested to see that too. I think the conviction that ‘filtering things’ in such a way can furnish a unique kind of edification goes back further than Frederic Jameson or British Cultural Studies, as is often invoked for comparison. I am always reminded of Siegfried Kracauer’s writings from the Weimar period and his massive influence on the Frankfurt School (for them the conviction is something of a truism, I’d guess Hegelian in origin), particularly this quote from Mass Ornament:

The position that an epoch occupies in the historical process, can be determined more strikingly from an analysis of its inconspicuous surface-level expressions than from that epoch’s judgements about itself … The surface-level expressions … by virtue of their unconscious nature, provide unmediated access to the fundamental substance of the state of things.
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Clinamenic

Clinamenic

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version said:
Did k-punk ever have any doubts about his filtering things through pop culture? I'm assuming he did, but I don't think I've come across any writing where he directly addresses it.
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Was he doing it more in the spirit of sifting through popular content to find insights into the zeitgeist, as that quote in @dilbert1 's post suggests, or was he doing as a way to make his theories somewhat more accessible/relatable?
 
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