What is the most cancerous idea ever invented?

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name one thing you've read from the Frankfurt School or anything from Critical Theory.

>>1613599
Why do none ever seem to care that girl lacks a nose?

>>1613599
>>1613613
Considered transcendently, from the outside, dissolved into its context Kakifly’s is work written for money, for he has no stable mangaka position, is insecure, precarious – despite this his work is not, in the main, hackish. This circumstance of instability determines its form and contents and both provokes and circumscribes the standpoints presented within. It is work in tension with the world and strains to find places to place its opinions. Seen immanently, we might notice how it is marked by the sharp stabs of the capitalist system, its rhythms and demands, its modern speediness and engagement with fashion and the popular. It takes up its exposure to capitalism into itself, by hardening its position against the system, condemning it polemically and totally and making divisions between its insights and those of conformist critics. Kakifly’s short punctuated rhythms and polemical outbursts take up the confident mode of address of the media and its competition for distracted attention. It is timely, always valuing the contemporary and concerned with the precise moment into which a statement is uttered (which can include polemical returns of long forgotten materials, that flash back into his critical view in a certain moment – hence Kakifly’s excavations of Ritsu’s lyrics some two years after its writing, in order to see what poetry from the epoch of high capitalism exposes about poetry in the next phase of capitalist organisation). Kakifly’s procedure encapsulates something of Azu-nyan’s impatience with laborious, convoluted and super-subtle analysis, epitomised in the dialogue Kakifly reports between Azu-nyan and the members: ‘So what's the problem if our sound is tight than that's a good thing! If you ask me that's the best we've ever played.’.

>>1613632


Horiguchi produces a different type of criticism. It is leisurely, expansive, full of curlicues and endless twiddles. It is the work of someone with much time on their hands – a tenured and well-remunerated position – who can reflect upon the complexities of the system, and is not pressed into selling characters design for money – despite the vast quantities of these produced. Its attitude is mournful, contemplative and sometimes resigned. It ranges over all the world’s contents, looking at them this way and that, poking them over hundreds of frames to tease out their contradictions. Horiguchi appears to be designing characters about capitalism, has the ambition to cover the whole world and all its contents in his endless work that include reprints of work now five years old, but not acknowledged as such, not updated. It leads to a peculiar timelessness for that work that would be about the urgent questions of our times. Horiguchi slips into science fiction styles at points, to press home his point about the death of imagination in mainstream music and culture, high and low. It is now scuttled away to reside only in strange corners of genre fiction built on imagining probable impossibilities.

Both Kakifly and Horiguchi produce an image of the world and values about that world by the form and content of their critical work. Both express a wish for an other type of ordering. Their criticism expresses a desire for another, two-dimensional world, is impelled by that desire. Even if they do this quite differently. Both find an appropriate form to express criticism of culture and, through that, criticism of the world as well as affirmative of tendencies in the present that provide resources for hope. Both redeem, in their own ways, the bad present through the critical act of reflecting through what is on what might be and must be – and that is dialectical criticism.

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>>1613636
Truly masterful.

>>1613599
"Critical theory" is a 70s American invention and it is pure garbage. Basically taking German theory, emptying it of content, and projecting whatever politics you want on it.

>>1614011

Truly illiterate.