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NOTES OF A TALK BY NINA POWER AT PROGRESS BAR 4th OF NOVEMBER:
Aesthetics of fascism* shadow channel
- Propaganda
- Rammstein stripped
- Roman greek beauty, statues
- Athleticism
- Centrality of the human form
- Mist/flags/steam/clouds
- Distorted view/dizzying/
- Occult confusion
- No clarity of thought
- Critical ... not there
- Eisenstein/ Riefenstahl
- Smears edges of perception
- Metaphysical haze
- Elitist heroism
- VAGUE: aims of fascism
- Religion without transcendence
- Pay attention to the Obsessions
- Riefenstahl: Bruce Weber/Herb Ritts (knowing nods)
- Male fantasies, Theweleit (book)!!!
- Social media: fascist language
- Barrage of information
- Danger of assuming
- Unconscious fear/displacement: conscious fear. Hidden in plain sight: its no metaphor, literal fear.
- The authoritarian personality (1950): broad pattern: logical thought from subjects
- Identity has been taken up by the right:
- Primal instincts: in anonymity online: anger drives
- Individualism: hyper-individualism, individuals in individuals
- Collectivity online: anonymously
- Avatars famous
- Kant: what are the conditions of politics online
- Difference between choosing to be anonym, or being treated as one
- Identity politics of the right: resentful: attacking liberalism
- How the right mobilizes
- Generation identitaire
- I am your voice
- Victor Klemperer and the LTI
- Form of the language of fear
- Tracked transformation of language: Nazi language. !!!!!!!!!!
- Most powerful influence: single words, idioms, and sentence structures
- TERRORIST, flood, no space, etc
- Being a CUCK
- How are claims contextualized
- Prevents critical thought, rational thought: do memes do something similar than the fascist images,
- No difference speaking /reading
- Now no difference speaking/image
- Use of memes to frame reality
- Pseudo
- Words shape reality
- Memes in political argument
- Framing instrument
- Collective work
- Richard Dawkings essay about memes
- Representation of violence
- Hard to escape dominance of frames, even if your critical your flooded
- Correlation Development Mass media technology:
- Basically equal: images nowadays: but ppl are paid to filter out the horrible stuff: there are limits in the free market: employ ppl to endure trauma
- Allure of Pepe: not market driven
- Overlap alt-right and silicon valley; ideological link: needs careful unpacking