So question, what kind of themes and narratives do you think

homosexuality

>>8505415
Everything outlined in Society Of Spectacle and Dialectic Of Enlightenment

digital isolation seems like an obvious fit

>>8505428
>society of spectacle

Reading the wikipedia for this book makes me want to kill myself

>>8505415
The paradox of information being more available than ever, yet people think less than ever.

The paradox of having more friendships than ever, while having less meaningful relationships than ever.

The erosion of spirituality, the dominance of materialism

The erosion of creativity, critical thinking, and ingenuity in the general populace due to bread and circuses, and automation

The death of the renaissance men and the rise of specialists in academia, arts, and science

Plurality - believe what you like, there will be an echo chamber for you.

An increasingly glib, cynical, specious, consensus-building media

>>8505763
Well put.

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>>8505763
>The paradox of having more friendships than ever,

>>8505763
>The paradox of having more friendships than ever, while having less meaningful relationships than ever.

bond vs bridge capital is not a paradox you dip

>>8505795
I never said I was smart ;)

>>8505763
>having more friendships than ever
REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

"accessibility" of ideas and information, and cultural capital

There's been a sort of logical positivism thats crept back into society, where "progress" is a linear function of prosperity/social liberalism/diversity/science, depending who you ask

self-identity being driven by consumption of media rather than by accomplishment or tribe

concomitant shift of all areas of life into the mold of media product

weaponization of weakness and sensitivity, reversal of traditional ideas about what constitutes harm ("cry-bullying"), outrage as tactic rather than reaction

representation as prior epistemologically to the represented, virtue signaling as prior ethically to virtue

widening of the scope and social function of shame, co-opting of shame and other natural human emotions for increasingly particular political purposes

undoing of enlightenment common area of reason and 'common sense' faculties of the human race, replaced by pluralistic epistemology and claims to authority based on increasingly fractured demographics ("As an X, I think..."), concomitant revising of free speech to privilege of speech based on demographic belonging

industrialization's making all material goods temporary from creation, with planned trashing / obsolescence bleeding into social and interpersonal realms (jobs, marriages, relationships, seen as fixed to a certain time and need guaranteed to expire, people as ends to service those passing needs)

increasing rapidity in change of wide-sweeping public doxa, resultant lack of conviction in any given generation with the knowledge that what is acceptable to believe could change at any time, no myths of a moral center beyond temporary shared opinion

reality as outrageous insofar as it doesn't fit preconceived notions instead of vice-versa; continued shift away from realism toward utopianism, condition that ideas project onto reality rather than vice-versa, magical thinking

>>8505627
Fuck Guy Debord. I took an online art class where we had to write bullshit posts each week explaining various art theorists terms and concepts. Most of it was fine, until we had to spend a week on the Situationists. All I learned from the Theory of the Dérive was that Debord's M.O. was apparently to write in the most broad and abstract way possible. He would posit a new and "revolutionary" Grand Unifying Theory of Life™ every other paragraph in horribly convoluted sentences. He was also a fan of slamming each sentence as full of meaningless academic jargon as he possibly could. I can't understand why anyone would enjoy reading him.

Writing a definition of Debord's 'derive' was the worst 250 words of my life