"By popular request, it’s the Ordinary Unhappiness Severance episode! Abby, Patrick, and Dan reflect on the hit show from the perspectives of political economy and libidinal economy, from Adam Smith to Adam Scott to Karl Marx to Mark S and beyond (with plenty of Freud and workplace war stories along the way). What ensues is less about answering plot mysteries (although spoilers abound) than it is about exploring how the show poses questions about repression, the division of labor, alienation, and more. What does working do to us as individuals, as co-workers, and as political subjects? How do our workplaces and their rituals channel our desires and our anxieties, shape our personas, and even divvy up our basic experiences of space and time? What are the psychic wages of maintaining “work-life balance” and what interventions – technological, chemical, and ideological – do we rely on to “make it work”? Does living under capitalism mean that we have always already been severed, and what should we expect about the limits, and the possibilities, of prestige television when it comes to representing the paradoxes and foreclosures of capitalism itself?"
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The decline of SFX serves as a valuable lesson regarding the challenges of commodifying a subculture, highlighting the resilience of outsider communities. Prior to the rise of electronic dance music (EDM), dance music had thrived for decades as a grassroots and often marginalized community, with its members cautious of any efforts to exploit its cherished authenticity. Despite SFX's attempts to engage with a new generation of dance music enthusiasts, it struggled to resonate with the dedicated core audience at the heart of the genre. SFX developed within the EDM boom, a time when it seemed that electronic dance music would dominate the industry. However, the transition of a subculture into the mainstream can often alienate its foundational audience. As casual fans shift their interests elsewhere, a significant void is left behind.
#DanceMusic #subculture vs #EDM #mainstream #MusicHistory #DigitalMusic #distribution #SFX #beatport #alienation #commodification #profits #electronic #DanceMusic #MarginalizedCommunities #originators #MusicScenes #aficionados #music #OnlineMusic #MusicStores #CoreAudience #history
when i castigate #nonvoters i hear:
"you're turning them off"
fuck that
if someone lacks the capacity to see the stakes, that's on them
it's not our job to soothe and trick them with emotional appeal. that's #MAGA tactics
what's happening now is they are learning consequences
the hard way
*even then* they will shift blame. never taking ownership of their #alienation
the problem is them
not how insensitive we are to their fucking precious feelings
#vote #midterms2026 you fucks
@jesusmargar
This bloke is inconsiderate and as insane as other victims of capitalism >
https://todon.eu/@MixMistressAlice/113649839463767990
#MentalHealth #StructuralInequalities #wellbeing #alienation #distress #antidepressants #neurosis #psychology ##capitalism #materialism #consumerism #neoliberalism #CommodityCulture
@rmblaber1956 @ohmu @Kierkegaanks
everyone is aware of the #geopolitical #trollFarm #psyop on the #farRight in the #West
not many want to admit the troll farm psyop also working the #farLeft
on the right, they amplify #hate
on the left, they amplify #alienation
well, i speak from an #American perspective
in #Europe you're far more aware of the two prong approach to divide and conquer
@FranceskaMann @ohmu @Kierkegaanks
certainly
#plutocracy amplifies #hate on the right and #alienation on the left on purpose
the problem is we live in a #democracy (if we can keep it) so the average person matters. their choice to #vote #maga, or not vote matters
and the reasons they don't vote or vote maga is the #plutocrat influence machine, yes
but *why* does that influence work?
#socialMedia and #media #psyop work because hate and alienation is organic
we need to fight that too
Delate Wawa
A dose of nourishing if unpopular honesty, for those dying of lies.
rustyring.blogspot.com/2025/02/dela...
#alienation, #autonomy, #BuffytheVampireSlayer, #depression, #hermitpractice, #Iran, #justice, #meditation, #mindfulness, #OldSettler, #suicide
Delate Wawa
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#Neoliberalism and #neofeudalism are the dominant ideologies of the current era. Both are ultimately predicated on strategies and tactics that can be summarized as, "divide and conquer".
I do not think it is a stretch to posit that the number one problem that is precipitating the existential crisis that all of humanity is facing is the #alienation and #loneliness that these ideologies are designed to inculcate.
Delate Wawa
A dose of nourishing if unpopular honesty, for those dying of lies.
rustyring.blogspot.com/2025/02/dela...
#alienation, #autonomy, #BuffytheVampireSlayer, #depression, #hermitpractice, #Iran, #justice, #meditation, #mindfulness, #OldSettler, #suicide
Delate Wawa
#Screens "train us in convenience, which is training in predictability, in the facade of certainty. And when that facade inevitably breaks, we often find ourselves at sea.
"In the brilliant and ever-relevant Seeing Like a State, James C. Scott outlines the many ways states fail; principle among them is an obsession with putting things in order, with simplification and efficiency. More often than not, that efficiency translates into brittleness and weakness, into systems so fragile they break the moment something unanticipated arises."
La critique de Lefebvre : Rationalité gestionnaire et aliénation moderne
Lefebvre vs technocratie : critique de la rationalité gestionnaire Découvrez la pensée d'Henri Lefebvre, philosophe qui dénonce l'aliénation moderne cachée derrière l'efficacité technocratique. De l'espace abstrait à l'urbanisme fonctionnaliste, explorez sa vision de l'émancipation sociale face au contrôle capitaliste. #Lefebvre #CritiqueSociale #Urbanisme #Aliénation La pensée de Lefebvre…
Galaxone, Doug Chaffee
Really like the idea of the "organic ship" or the "unknown alien construction" type of ship.
Maybe it's alive, and it carries us around because it feels like it. Not because it has to.
Maybe someday we'll all be ships.
Maybe when we're all ships we'll want to stop flying around all the damn time, but what else is there? We're starships.
I'd definitely listen to music while I fly between the stars.
I'd do a lot of orbiting too
A coworker is talking about listening to older music on Spotify and that “it’s so great, it’s like a middle school dance.”
And I’m just thinking …we clearly had different middle school experiences. My adjectives for middle school dances are mortifying, sweaty, cringey.
This is apparently A Thing, where many people my age have this nostalgia for years I am relieved to forget. Imagine peaking in middle school. Gah.