cross-posted from: https://lemmygrad.ml/post/4028381
The only thing I can think of is Society of the Spectacle by Guy Debord and Marshall McLuhan's work on media.
Oh, and this work by Christian Fuchs.
Problem being:
I think Fuchs is a Marxist-Humanist and I'm not sure what to think of Marxist humanism.
But I could be wrong.
Maybe I should ignore that aspect of their work.
Thoughts?
Got any book recommendations at all?
I'm looking for:
Media studies
Cultural theory
Communications
Internet
Social media
Management and organization
Community-building
Trends
Technology
etc.
^ These are the topics I'm looking into.
And, hopefully, from a Marxist-Leninist or Marxist standpoint (or at least leftist).
Got anything? Maybe advice?
May I ask a silly question of you? I have a copy of Dialectics of Enlightenment, but haven't read it yet. Would you say it belongs more on the shelf with my philosophy books with stuff by Marcuse and Simone de Beauvoir or like mythology books by Joseph Campbell and Riane Eisler?
Personally I'd be putting it with the philosophy books, hands down. But you're right to ask where it best fits between those two categories.
Word. It's currently with mythology.😅 Now I'll spend the rest of the evening arguing with myself over it.
Whatever makes sense to you is all that matters, dude. It's your bookshelf and it's there for your own reading, not to impress others with how accurately it is organised per the Dewey Decimal System.
Anyway, if someone gives you the side-eye over it you can always invoke the death of the author in your defense.
(You know, I got into it with some lib on social media a while back, I can't remember over what exactly, but I provided info or a definition that was on a concrete subject and, I kid you not, the other person erm, ackshually-ed me and played that very card. I was like bruh, are you kidding me?? You can't just say that the speed of light is 100km an hour and when you get called out for being completely wrong to turn around and claim that authorial intent is unimportant and that your personal interpretation takes precedence because of the death of the author - that's not how it works outside of fiction and it's not some get-out-of-jail free card where you can just make up anything you want.
I swear to Marx, so many of these people online just seem to memorise a random assortment of the names of concepts and fallacies, then they haphazardly deploy them to dazzle others in order to "win" a discussion.)
Oh, lol, no worries. It's more to satisfy my own anal organization. I've got limited space so any time I add a book I've gotta rethink how they should be grouped. DoE just happens to be one of the few I know very little about, but mythology and enlightenment was my wheelhouse for a while so I tend to place it within that context. Thanks for the insight!