Just googled the name of a cool synthwave song and then this comes up.
This is literally just pseudo-religious drivel made up by a bunch of weird jackoffs in academia applying value judgements to human behaviour using totally subjective, arbitrary points of reference like "socially acceptable", "civilization", and "normal".
All fine and valid if it was a subset of philosophy, but the fact that people take this seriously as a hard science is mind boggling. Postmodern neoliberalism is one hell of a drug.
scientific rigor has its limits when we're dealing with human beings. you can never rule out the confounding variables when it comes to us, there's just too much shit going on at the same time. societies aren't the tidy laboratories that chemists can work with, it's always messy and confusing and unclear. this is a problem that all psychologists i can take seriously (so, not jordan peterson) are aware of, see the whole controversies around the replication crisis. a psychologist who still hasn't moved beyond Freud is a complete quack and not representative of what psychology is, or could be, today.
Sublimation as a theory is fine. People really do subsume and absorb unacceptable impulses and turn that energy into something else. If you desperately want to punch your boss in the face for being an arsehole, you might decide to turn that energy into agitprop to unionize the workplace instead. Turning an unacceptable impulse into an acceptable one (morally at least :knifecat: )
Unfortunately Freud, being Freud, is so sexually horny for his mother that he thinks that everyone else must be too. Not quite making the connection that maybe since he wasn't raised by his mother from birth that he sees her a little differently than everyone else does. Therefore sublimation = step on me, mummy. :panting:
Read Eros and Civilization, lib. It all really comes together in the epilogue's criticism of neo-freudian psychotherapy.
it's way too early for being neoliberal postmodernism, it just shows that all sciences are, deep down, only another form of theology
to believe in the machine as something other than an odd form of stochastism? Absolutely
what?
I believe in bikes I've seen one and I know that a bike is just an ideal form which I compare a collection of tubes, pipes and wheels to but it's also a very useful one to construct something that lets me go places faster than walking
well bikes are still simple enough, though already to believe in the bike as a bike rather than oddparts fortunately attached is a belief in both a higher force and human grace. Now talking about the internet, the space station, or even the old machines typesetting through molten lead, is indeed far enough to be a theology
they're just useful metaphors and I think you might have read too much navel gazing philosophy have you considered touching grass
sure, but do the people designing them/studying them view them as simple metaphors, no, which is why they can in the same breath decry dialectical materialism for orthodoxy and embrace a form of theology, sure it got a bit better (cf kuhn, possibly popper) but it's still the same shit as we were doing back then of trying to read the world through animal entrails, we just got better at it predicting reality, psychology ain't different it just branched out later. I do regularly touch grass, it's that red brown colour and stiff feel, no?
if they do any programming at a serious level they likely have been exposed to the concept of the concept of objects being just a useful metaphor yes. Or really any computer sceince as the fact that what we think of as a machine is a metaphor for the more nuts and bolts aspect is relevant to understanding the different levels of abstraction we work at.
physicists know that classical physics is a useful metaphor at the right scale for the more complicated quantum interactions that are happening under the bonnet. scientism isn't the same thing as science. With science being merely a ruthlessly practical methodology that has really no philosphical message to impart at all albeit being intensely useful to learning about and understanding material reality
