culture industry

Taylor Swift and Totalitarianism

Von Sanjana Sheth / 2024-04-22 / NonPolitics / culture industry, muzak, neoliberalism, totalitarism

taken from here: https://bluelabyrinths.com/2024/04/14/taylor-swift-and-totalitarianism/?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR1YKCZDbm63XFQonhb2Q5l70yVoIl2tSm_V5m7B94-RJ62XhBJZLqs83vA_aem_ATpA2Lf3lklroDT0H2y1dUW1RzV5csbpAZsOQrT5jnDD4-vctiKK6c3gvdjaZ4UNjZ-JGLwTWULK65JLs_zPz9Fc The system is broken. The celebrity is brighter than the sun. Only she can decide when it is day. There’s a sentiment amongst Swifies that if you wrong Taylor Swift, you will fall. They call it […]

Taylor Swift and Totalitarianism

Trash Theory: The “Young-Girl” Deployment

Von Giorgi Vachnadze / 2024-02-08 / Biopolitics / culture industry, Pop, Tiqqun, young girl

I just found this weird little book. It’s been referenced here and there in the literature on biopolitics. Published in the Tiqqun, a French-Italian Anarchist journal, who only managed to produce two issues (the 1999 and 2001). “Raw Materials for

Trash Theory: The “Young-Girl” Deployment

David Foster Wallace’s Infinite Jest. The intoxicating beauty of emptiness.

Von Achim Szepanski / 2022-06-07 / PhiloFiction / culture industry, deleuze/guattari, humour, Infinite Jest, irony, serres

Those who live in closure or enclosure consume the supply and parasitise on that which justifies the closure of the system. It is the happy parasite who closes the system and for whom it is closed. Now, for Erdedy, the

David Foster Wallace’s Infinite Jest. The intoxicating beauty of emptiness.

The Soccer Syndrome: Speculative and dirty Business

Von Achim Szepanski / 2022-05-29 / Biopolitics, Gosse / culture industry, finance, Mass Culture, soccer, speculation, sport

1) Soccer, porn and pop make up the culture industry today. 2) Clubs, players and coaches are now highly speculative financial assets. The Neymar deal with a transfer fee of 222 million elevates world soccer to a new dimension. The

The Soccer Syndrome: Speculative and dirty Business

Bernard Stieglers “Automated Society”

Von Achim Szepanski / 2022-03-25 / EconoFiction, Mashines / automation, biotechnology, capital, culture industry, husserl, individuation, machines, proletarisation, Simondon, technology

We will systematically follow Stiegler’s train of thought from chapter to chapter in order to then come to an assessment and critique. Let us begin with Stiegler’s quite contestable concept of the Anthropocene (see Jason W. Moore and his introduction

Bernard Stieglers “Automated Society”

Black Box East: The Gum You Like, or: A Letter from the Western Borders of Shanzhai

Von Lesia Prokopenko / 2021-05-13 / NonPolitics / china, culture industry, fashion, shanzai

By the beginning of summer 2020, the reality of the pandemic was more than obvious yet most of the people I was talking to were hopeful about things getting better quite soon. I was waiting for the acceptance letter from

Black Box East: The Gum You Like, or: A Letter from the Western Borders of Shanzhai

The football syndrome: speculative business

Von Achim Szepanski / 2020-01-07 / Biopolitics / culture industry, derivatives, finance, soccer, speculation

1) Soccer, porn and pop are the cultural industries of today. 2) Clubs, players and coaches are now highly speculative financial investments. The Neymar deal with a redemption of 222 million raises world football to a new dimension. One rather

The football syndrome: speculative business

THEODOR ADORNO & MASS CULTURE

Von Esther Leslie / 2018-08-20 / PhiloFiction / Adorno, barbarism, culture industry, Dialectic of Enlightment, enlightment, Mass Culture, music

Introduction Too many people talk about Theodor Adorno, and not enough people go through the difficult but bracing task of reading his texts. He is an easy man to caricature, because he believed in exaggeration as a means of reaching

THEODOR ADORNO & MASS CULTURE

They Say We Can’t Meme: Politics of Idea Compression

Von Geert Lovink & Marc Tuters / 2018-02-11 / NonPolitics / culture industry, Facebook, Far-Right, internet, meme

“I am a forest, and a night of dark trees: but he who is not afraid of my darkness, will find banks full of roses under my cypresses.” Friedrich Nietzsche In his torturous 2017 book Futurability Franco Berardi states that

They Say We Can’t Meme: Politics of Idea Compression

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