I feel like 90% of it is fantastic magic but hmmmm that 10%
It’s arguably the most important modern theoretical work concerning how we experience modern society and it’s completely mediated experience in the so called first world under capitalism. More personal than Inventing Reality.
It is a useful psychological analysis of what it is like to be a capitalist subject. Also the section about the imposition of time by capitalist commodity production and wage labor is very interesting.
when I was reading it, my phone gave me a notification that RBG died
If you’re in the imperial core and not a situationist, already, you’re overdue. Commodification of perception is Palantir’s entire business model.
What’s the 10% you dislike?
Like #64 and #100
I’ve only read parts of it and not those parts. I agree that the accounts of China and Russia are silly.
Reading it now is kinda weird since the precient parts are now just reality. It’s useful now to show that the current state of things isn’t normal and is in fact the end result of a system of control that was started after WW2
