/lit/ - Literature

Has anyone read The Second Sexism? What does he say in it?

>>19420730
Nankin of Taiping Heavenly Kingdom

>>16030822
It's not that complicated. A lot of it can be understood from the New York of the 1990s and post 9/11 crackdown on any culture. They basically shut down all venues, bars, youth centers, etc. anything that wasn't just liberal functionalism. They took a medical approach to cleaning up the city to prevent crime, terrorism, and to hide the collapsing economy. The result was an aseptic, dead culture.
And this happened everywhere after New York, even small cities and towns started cracking down on teenagers hanging out, skateparks were built to keep them out of the streets.
The punk scene in the 2000s had to resort to house shows, illegal venues, or simply have bar shows and abandon all ages. Then the house shows got shut down because the cops went looking for them.

The creation of aseptic cultures happened at the same time. Pop punk, numetal, etc. You can see a lot of extreme elements of music were picked up by the mainstream and then applied in a dull form, System of a Down, MIA, Die Antwoord etc. The whole goth and emo scenes were part of that same process, in between mass culture and subculture, basically posers on a large scale.

https://youtu.be/puDaoPbJ1xY

A lot of people talk about recuperation, but it's worse than that. It's actually a 'natural' result of how modern technical society organises, large scale subcultures cannot work and the tendency is towards the bare functioning of culture and social relations, as the song above makes clear. None of this shit is planned or sold away, rather it is a force of the society in which we live - it just seems paradoxical because people think everything is about change and diversity. But along with democracy there is really a extreme towards centralisation. Tocqueville describes how 13th century towns were differentiated to a much greater extent than continents today. How could a small group resist such forces? (This would also be why right-wing music has to capitulate and accept much of the cultural style created by left-wing groups, or is at least progressive in form)

Similarly, Camatte discusses the tendency of organisations to harden and revert to maintainence of the organisation as the main organising principle. This is similar to the technical argument I outlined, and explains why countercultures of the 60s so often fell apart and destroyed themselves through infighting.

The internet definitely makes things harder now and no doubt highlights all the worst aspects , but this shit was falling apart well before the internet had any impact. If anything it's more a reflection of dead culture.

https://youtu.be/lsDgIoY2Ji8

That's a very rough outline, and there's a lot to this but it's probably the best you're going to get for now.
You could also compare the way music became overproduced next to the aseptic image of pop culture and hipsters. Also the effort that went into something like tape trading compared to mp3s.
t. spent nearly 20 years in subcultures or listening to the music

This is a tedcore board
https://youtu.be/YdGE8fFtmwc

>>13131310
Why would I recognise pigs as gods? They're not my religion. Perhaps it is a wonderful theological law, but I would need further convincing than blank statements. I'm more open-minded than you think and I have diverse tastes.
Was Dionysus a turkey god?
https://youtu.be/fqV9ogeJE3w

>>13058116
In other words, how can art appear within an apocalyptic world after we have abandoned the laws of eschatology? The aesthetics are unappealing to most people, and rightfully appear as noise. Even then, the darkest art falls short of its formal object - eschatological realism fails against the landscape of the real world, and the gothic reappears as an impoverished decadence. Escapism arises out of necessity.
https://youtu.be/5YT_EKtR_IQ

>>11142145
It's not about feels.
It's about pointing it out with information that adds to it. Like I said here >>11142011

I can derive something to learn from what the dudes first people said. Even from your wiki-link aludeing to the fact, that I had the wrong context for materialism.

But for most of your posts you just spit vitriol for the sake of spitting it, without exposeing anything of your own.
The mark of a small mind.
Talking about what other people say without adding anything yourself.

I know you won't admit to it now. Maybe never.
But eventually you might come around to your folly.