Perverts Ideology

Reading/Writing

Marx engels German ideology Thesis Anti thesis Synthesis Not a competition of ideas, but a battle between who has the resources Regulated by ideology Dialectacle materialism: dictates

Hegemony: dominant ideology

Ideology though a cultural lens The super structure in laid out by the media

Slave to ideology Invisible order which sustains our apparent freedom

We cant see through the dominant ideology. Cant see reality. Abstracted by the dominant institution

You must be forced to be free No one will voluntarily leave the safety of the dominant ideology Enjoyment of our lives: enjoyment of our disturbed ideology

Simple pleasures vs enjoyment

Not guilty for enjoying life, but guilty for not enjoying the organic pleasures of life itself

"Post ideological society" - subjects of pleasure Live a satisfying life But do it with in the guidelines of the ideology? We cant have the full lifebwe desire maybe bc the restrictive cultural ideology

Liberal ideology: full fill your potential or else

Cultural enjoyment: perverted duty 

Cynical reason: i know what im doing but i do it none the less

Symbolic deadlock : consumerism

Looting

Rammstein: performing w these nazi-esc athetic underminds the nazi agenda by removing the power for those gestures and reinflating them with another kind of pleasure Pure elements of libidinal investment

What are the characteristics of ideology ? : assignment

Ideology distorts our view. He believes if you remove the symbolic glasses of ideology, you will see the world. But this freedom to see the world free if ideology will be painful and people may not be as happy to see the truth as one might imagine

What happens when a foreign ideology tries to infiltrate another? Fear! Confusion

Its important to locate where an ideology was born, and by who, and who for

Petrified enjoyment: excessive pleasure and pain

The role of myth in ideology: titanic It romanticize the story of a romance which would have died but bc the petrified enjoyment, the myth is saved for eternity The crashing of the ship maintains the illusion of eternal love

Gives examples about how relationships and dynamics are presented with ritual, excessive enjoyment or pain, or dramatic experiences which allow the people to be seen in only one way. In the way that supports and reinforces the ideology

Obsenity: sustains the macho military culture Unwritten rules for the identification of a group

Full metal jacket Drill sargent is a tragic figure His show of obscene enjoyment for the soldiers

Military discipline Did their duty

Obsenity and domestic violance. School boys humiliating the younger boys but its accepted and serves a roll

Abu grave: established the underbelly of military culture

Batman: Elevates lie into general social principal Tells us the society can only remain functional only if based on a lie. As if telling the truth would lead to distruction

Lie functions as a hot potato They juggle what lie to use in order to maintain the society as it is They need a lie to maintain order

"Noble fable" Iraq wmd's

" If there is no god, then everything is permitted "

This statement is a lie in itself

Wasnt made by dovskiesky

But it also is the opposite of what we know to be true about violence and thise who perpetrate it for god Religious fundamentalist

The big other: the basic element of every ideological edifice It has 2 contradictory aspects: 1: the secret order of things : fate, reason, destiny. The big other is the order of appearances

There is no mythic people that serves as the legitimization