Theodor Adorno, one of the dominant theorists of the Frankfurt School, attacked Lukács in 1958 when the latter was still under house arrest for supporting the 1956 revolution in Hungary. Writing in Der Monat, a journal created by the occupying U.S. Army and funded by the CIA, Adorno charged Lukács with being “reductive” and “undialectical,” writing like a “Cultural Commissar,”
I aspire to be called a Cultural Commissar by some ultra dweeb like Lukács
I stand by my statement. Being called a stalinist or some variant of Bolshevik, or something as silly as "cultural commissar" as an insult by western "leftists" is something I wear with pride.
Also rereading that entire article still made my eyes glaze over in the exact way trying to read 19th century to modern philosophy does.
It hits different for me since I will scrutinize almost any internet cult & I see people assembling this stuff into reading lists alongside basic marxists texts with zero african or latin american writers. They play their word games and come out swinging against the periphery because they focus on media criticism.
They'll confidently post some British Hong Kong-based paper writing about how China paid the clouds not to rain on the Mekong river & we need to defend colonial era Filipino / Guyanese claims pushed by the US from Chinese/Venezuelan imperialism
I used to love doing Citations Needed type stuff but you really see the shortcomings of this practice after a few major events happen and people are left stranded, biting into Ukrainian nationalist and Zionist narratives
Like people are still comparing the start of Putler's illegal invazzion/the SMO to Palestine rn. Abby Martin and Mark Ames were doing this bizarre "im so sorry i didn't believe you glowies, but people should be talking about Palestine instead" trick and all it seems to have done is cemented the connection in people's minds.
It hits different for me since I will scrutinize almost any internet cult & I see people assembling this stuff into reading lists alongside basic marxists texts with zero african or latin american writers. They play their word games and come out swinging against the periphery because they focus on media criticism
Are you talking about including the writers of the Oscar Meyer wieners school, the irrationalist philosophers, or the ethno-nationalist philosophers mentioned in your article?
I used to love doing Citations Needed type stuff but you really see the shortcomings of this practice after a few major events happen and people are left stranded, biting into Ukrainian nationalist and Zionist narratives
I feel this one. I've just gotten exhausted over major events happening every other week.
I aspire to be called a Cultural Commissar by some ultra dweeb like Lukács
You may want to read that again no offense
I stand by my statement. Being called a stalinist or some variant of Bolshevik, or something as silly as "cultural commissar" as an insult by western "leftists" is something I wear with pride.
Also rereading that entire article still made my eyes glaze over in the exact way trying to read 19th century to modern philosophy does.
It hits different for me since I will scrutinize almost any internet cult & I see people assembling this stuff into reading lists alongside basic marxists texts with zero african or latin american writers. They play their word games and come out swinging against the periphery because they focus on media criticism.
They'll confidently post some British Hong Kong-based paper writing about how China paid the clouds not to rain on the Mekong river & we need to defend colonial era Filipino / Guyanese claims pushed by the US from Chinese/Venezuelan imperialism
I used to love doing Citations Needed type stuff but you really see the shortcomings of this practice after a few major events happen and people are left stranded, biting into Ukrainian nationalist and Zionist narratives
Like people are still comparing the start of Putler's illegal invazzion/the SMO to Palestine rn. Abby Martin and Mark Ames were doing this bizarre "im so sorry i didn't believe you glowies, but people should be talking about Palestine instead" trick and all it seems to have done is cemented the connection in people's minds.
Are you talking about including the writers of the Oscar Meyer wieners school, the irrationalist philosophers, or the ethno-nationalist philosophers mentioned in your article?
I feel this one. I've just gotten exhausted over major events happening every other week.
Here's an example reading list:
The Society of the Spectacle (1967) by Guy Debord
The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction (1936) by Walter Benjamin
The Culture Industry from Dialectic of Enlightenment (1944) by Theodore Adorno & Max Horkheimer
Discipline and Punish (1975) by Michel Foucault
Simulacra and Simulation (1981) by Jean Baudrillard
Manufacturing Consent (1988) by Edward S. Herman & Noam Chomsky
The Sublime Object of Ideology (1989) by Slavoj Zizek
Postscript on the Societies of Control (1990) by Gilles Deleuze
Postmodernism, or, the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism (1991) by Fredric Jameson
Spectres of Marx (1993) by Jacques Derrida
Capitalist Realism (2009) by Mark Fisher
Just reading those titles made my eyes glaze over
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