Lecture 008

"Ghost of My Life (No Future)"

• music got stuck in time; no big changes

• no technological progress

"Hyper-normalization"

• what is reality

• reality is no longer a internal concepts

"Hauntology"

• the past cause nostalgia. around us all the time

"Commodity / Exchange"

• buying brand/lifestyle

• it just a slot on the server (no something physical)

• because it is conceptual, it's cheap

"Hyper-real / Simulacrum / Simulation"

• perfect copy

• perfect representation

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Keep earning: inflation Cutton tex: falling inflation, interest rate, good economy.

Capitalist Realism: capitalism is the only way to do economy and society.

• monstrous

• absorb everything

• plasticity

• no restriction

Post-modern

• by Fisher

• opening up of ego

• experience time differently -> only experience the present.

• personal identity = past, present, future

• we are reduced to material, object

• different between capitalism and post-modernism

  • 1. there may be alternative to capitalism
  • 1. entangled in modernism. (Berlin Wall)
  • 1. now absorbed(modern) from outside country, how to function without absorb

• capitalism in our unconscious. emotions and all are influenced by capitalism.

Capital-realism (how to destroy capitalist realism)

• mental health:

  • capitalism trigger mental ill
  • treating mental health benefit capitalism (remove personal context to purely chemistry)
  • sell chemical at profit
  • politicize?, highlight commonness

• bureaucracy

  • measuring outcome, mission statement...
  • do redundant things to simulate producivity
  • (ie. trade trade and trade)

• environment (climate)

  • into marketing
  • green critique strains capitalism system

Ending: A little twist could change a lot

phallocentrism: focusing on power holder (patriarchy) modernism:

• aesthetic mode from WW1 responding to trauma

• (modernism art and literature -> individual pieces work together -> like a collage)

• modern -> from Enlightenment life style change

post-modern:

• meta-commentary -> moving into a chain of association.

The idea of anti-capitalism movement comes from capitalism ideology itself.

Capital Realism: a motivation to always have desire to get or become the ideal self

Tontology: white philosophy are not related to physical.