After seeing the success of I'm a Virgo and further back, The Boys on Amazon's streaming service, I've wondered exactly what is going on. Is this recuperation in action?
After seeing the success of I'm a Virgo and further back, The Boys on Amazon's streaming service, I've wondered exactly what is going on. Is this recuperation in action?
Seeing anti-capitalist action performed on screen doesn't deepen revolutionary spirit it dampens it. It gives the viewer the cathartic experience of seeing resolution of the tensions they perceive/experience without ever having to achieve any revolutionary victory themselves.
I'm not saying this is why, I don't think the level of ideological control we experience is quite so intentional, but I also don't think it's a contradiction.
Also something something Mark Fisher that too.
That's the argument I hear all the time, and I'm not saying it's wrong, but how come that doesn't apply to other things? You'd never say a racist movie dampens people's racism or that a pro war film funded by the DoD dampens people's jingoism. And if you're making art, what are you supposed to do, steer clear of showing any positive representation of revolution?
Revolution requires active collective effort to achieve, while living in a racist and jingoistic society is the status quo. Mass media normalizes the actions of its heroes, and makes people comfortable with them. We don't want people comfortable about every else doing the revolution.