Is Social Media Capitalism's Postmodern Pleasure Trap? 'Filling the Void' w/ Marcus Gilroy-Ware
Acid Horizon3 Dec 2023

Is Social Media Capitalism's Postmodern Pleasure Trap? 'Filling the Void' w/ Marcus Gilroy-Ware

Buy the book: https://repeaterbooks.com/product/filling-the-void-emotion-capitalism-and-social-media/ It argues that social media use is often a psychological response to the need for pleasure and comfort that results from the stresses of life under postmodern capitalism, rather than being a driver of new behaviours as newer technologies are often said to be. Both the explosive growth of social media and the corresponding reconfiguration of the web from an information-based platform into an ...

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Desire, Institutions, and the Left: Susana Caló & Godofredo Pereira on CERFI Analysis Beyond Guattari

Enroll at the AHRC today: https://www.acidhorizonpodcast.com/ahrc-main Buy 'CERFI Analysis Everywhere': https://www.minorcompositions.info/?p=1661 Between the radical energies of the 1960s and the sh...

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The Revenge of Reason: Hegel, Kant, and Neo-Rationalism with Pete Wolfendale

The Revenge of Reason: Hegel, Kant, and Neo-Rationalism with Pete Wolfendale

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The Obsolescence of the Human: AI, Nuclear Weapons, and the Philosophy of Günther Anders

The Obsolescence of the Human: AI, Nuclear Weapons, and the Philosophy of Günther Anders

What does it mean to feel outclassed by your own creations? In this episode, host Craig is joined by Christopher John Müller, translator and co-editor of the new University of Minnesota Press edition ...

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Patreon Preview: Bataille’s 'Guilty' Explained: Stuart Kendall on War, Time, and Instability

Patreon Preview: Bataille’s 'Guilty' Explained: Stuart Kendall on War, Time, and Instability

*Patreon Preview* To access the rest of this discussion, becoming paid subscriber on our Patreon page, or enroll in 'Formless', which begins March 11th. Links are below. What does Georges Bataille’s G...

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'Digital Theory' Panel Discussion: Is Theory Itself Digital? (Fazi, Galloway, Weatherby, Handleman)

In this free public panel hosted by the Acid Horizon Research Commons, we discuss Digital Theory (University of Minnesota Press) with contributors Alexander R. Galloway, M. Beatrice Fazi, Matthew Hand...

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Communist Ontologies: Communism as a Form of Life with Bruno Gulli and Richard Gilman-Opalsky

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Hyperreality Is Dead: Baudrillard, the Age of Trump, and 'The Gulf War Did Not Take Place' Revisited

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