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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