/399/ From ADHD to Let Me Be (Emotion Sickness, pt III)
Added 2024-03-22 16:08:54 +0000 UTCOn the withdrawal from hyperpolitics and hypermodernity.
What comes after a decade of populism? Alex Hochuli talks through his new essay in Damage, issue 2. This is episode is the third part of our Emotion Sickness series on the politics of feelings. Click here for part 1 and part 2.
If we are disengaging from politics, what is the associated feeling - resentment or resignation?
Why are our times "hypermodern" – and why is this exhausting?
What can the examples of the 'great resignation', 15-minute cities, and postliberalism all tell us about the ways people are withdrawing from modernity?
Why do we need to decelerate to save modernity?
How might we gain control of time?
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Links:
From ADHD to Let Me Be: Taking Control of Time, Alex Hochuli, Damage
Damage issue 2: "Deinstitutionalized" (subscribe for Alex's essay + more)
/365/ It’s So Over (Again) ft. Ryan Zickgraf (see also the links in show notes)
Hypermodern Times, Gilles Lipovetsky
Social Acceleration, Hartmut Rosa
Scorched Earth, Jonathan Crary
Comments
Alex's account of hypermodernity and how capitalism now extracts from the institutions of social life (cannibalising the social foundations), as in health and education, can be applied to culture as public policy, which in many ways was neoliberalism's first privatisation. Culture (in the narrower sense of symbolic production/ consumption) is also a sphere in which many have sought to carve out a space of time. Hagglund's vision of using the time of the our lives obviously underscores the popularity of UBI within the cultural sector - not so much quitting work but quitting the work that makes it impossible to do real work (art). But more generally, there's a shift to art/ culture as providing that breathing space in which some kind of recuperation is possible - not Adorno's rest before back to to work but as a space in which a future might be envisaged. What I find interesting in Alex's final comments about national holidays/ service is how this can radicalised ideas of the 'job guarantee' as applied to culture (as in the New Deal), in which collective projects might be envisaged, not the hyper-individualised vision of the Basic Income people (do art or spend on the horses, you chose...). And indeed, one of the core definitions of culture is one of ritual and collective development, one which the Renaissance and Enlightenment tried to radicalise. It is one the Right have appropriated and one the Left, typically, has dismissed as elitist/ middle class, when it should be precisely thinking about what a collective culture might look like.
Justin O’Connor
2024-03-31 21:31:34 +0000 UTCChocolate Bunga. Merch potential there
Surface Envy
2024-03-24 11:14:51 +0000 UTC
