Everybody Wants To Be A Fascist Online: Psychoanalysis And The Digital Architecture Of Fascism,
2023
Goldsmiths College, University of London
Everybody Wants To Be A Fascist Online: Psychoanalysis And The Digital Architecture Of Fascism, Anthony Faramelli, Imogen Piper
CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture
Félix Guattari and Franco Berardi have both argued that media ecologies and psychic ecologies are intimately intertwined and as such, any exploration of the collective unconscious must engage with how the mind is formed with and through media. This understanding of networks of interdependence necessitates an exploration of how platformization has impacted users” collective psyche. Drawing from psychosocial theory, psychoanalysis and the work of Félix Guattari, this article analizes the micropolitics of desire of digital platforms, with an explicit focus on how algorithmic structures amplify extreme Right content, allowing fascisms to metastasis throughout digital spaces. It will first examine the …
“There Is No Pandemic”: On Memes, Algorithms And Other Interpassive Forms Of Right-Wing Disbelief,
2023
Colorado College
“There Is No Pandemic”: On Memes, Algorithms And Other Interpassive Forms Of Right-Wing Disbelief, Scott Krzych
CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture
This essay examines several prominent memes that have circulated on Right-wing social media during the Covid-19 pandemic. The memes coordinate what I describe as a mode of interpassive humor, which positions those who “believe” in the crisis as naïve dupes, infantilizing those subjects who have fallen prey to the idea that they should take the pandemic seriously, and thereby delegating fearfulness to the other so that reactionary Covid-19 denialists may continue with their lives unaffected. The essay thereby seeks to draw suggestive lines of affiliation between studies of digital memes, evolutionary mimetics, and psychoanalytic theory, pointing to the algorithmic …
“Love Thy Social Media!”: Hysteria And The Interpassive Subject,
2023
Sheffield Hallam University
“Love Thy Social Media!”: Hysteria And The Interpassive Subject, Jack Black
CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture
According to the 2020 docudrama, The Social Dilemma, our very addiction to “social media” has, today, become encapsulated in the tensions between its facilitation as a mode of interpersonal communication and as an insidious conduit for machine learning, surveillance capitalism and manipulation. Amidst a variety of interviewees – many of whom are former employees of social media companies – the documentary finishes on a unanimous conclusion: something must change. By using the docudrama as a pertinent example of our “social media malaise,” and while remaining aware of the problems and unethical practices encompassing international digital/social media companies, this paper …
Lacan And The Algorithm,
2023
Simon Fraser University
Lacan And The Algorithm, Clint Burnham
CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture
Exploring the development of algorithms in Lacanian theory, specifically the "R schema" in the 1950s, I argue that psychoanalysis, read through contemporary debates about the "algorithmic cult" of Netflix and other avatars of popular culture, can be said to reveal the inhuman, machinic essence of subjectivity. The etiology of algorithms, mathemes, and other formulae and diagrams in Lacan’s oeuvre has been under-studied, in part because for some readers they are not as attractive as his more bravura flourishes of word play as exegetical excess, and in part because they derive largely from the ‘hard’ structuralist moment of his work in …
Platform Psychoanalysis: What Does The Algorithm Want?,
2023
University of Winnipeg
Platform Psychoanalysis: What Does The Algorithm Want?, Matthew Flisfeder
CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture
No abstract provided.
When Sexuality Becomes Healing: An Interview With Elsbeth Fraanje On Her Documentary Sexual Healing,
2023
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
When Sexuality Becomes Healing: An Interview With Elsbeth Fraanje On Her Documentary Sexual Healing, Johan Roeland
Journal of Religion & Film
This is an interview with Elsbeth Fraanje, the director of Sexual Healing.
Sexual Healing,
2023
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Sexual Healing, Johan Roeland
Journal of Religion & Film
This is a film review of Sexual Healing (2022) directed by Elsbeth Fraanje.
Okay! (The Asd Band Film),
2023
University of Nebraska at Omaha
Okay! (The Asd Band Film), Michele M. Desmarais
Journal of Religion & Film
This is a film review of OKAY! (The ASD Band Film) (2022) directed by Mark Bone.
Animal Imagery In Eastern Han Tomb Reliefs From Shanbei 陝北,
2023
Coastal Carolina University
Animal Imagery In Eastern Han Tomb Reliefs From Shanbei 陝北, Leslie V. Wallace
Visual Arts
Wild and fantastical animals climb, fly, scamper, and prance across pictorial stone carvings decorating Eastern Han tomb doors in northern Shaanxi. Alongside dragons and other mythical animals, bears felicitously dance, tigers grin opening their mouths to roar, and other wild animals frolic in swirling cloudscapes. While the same animals can be found in Eastern Han tomb reliefs and mortuary art in other regions, their frequency, emphasis on plasticity and movement, and combination with the yunqi 雲氣 motif are unique to the region. Originating in a hybrid style of art that was created during the Mid-Western Han Dynasty (206 BCE–9 CE), …
A Still Small Voice,
2023
Truman State University
A Still Small Voice, Dereck Daschke
Journal of Religion & Film
This is a film review of A Still Small Voice (2023), directed by Luke Lorentzen.
Bagdad On Fire,
2023
University of Nebraska Omaha
Bagdad On Fire, John C. Lyden
Journal of Religion & Film
This is a film review of Bagdad on Fire (2023), directed by Karrar Al-Azzawi.
Good Grief,
2023
University of Nebraska Omaha
Good Grief, John C. Lyden
Journal of Religion & Film
This is a film review of Good Grief (2023), directed by Rob Sharp.
Don't Worry About It,
2023
University of Nebraska Omaha
Don't Worry About It, John C. Lyden
Journal of Religion & Film
This is a film review of Don't Worry About It (2023), directed by Melissa Kong.
The Pod Generation,
2023
Truman State University
The Pod Generation, Dereck Daschke
Journal of Religion & Film
This is a film review of The Pod Generation (2023), directed by Sophie Barthes.
Punk Rock Vegan Movie,
2023
University of Nebraska at Omaha
Punk Rock Vegan Movie, Michele M. Desmarais
Journal of Religion & Film
This is a film review of Punk Rock Vegan Movie (2023), directed by Moby.
Plan C,
2023
Truman State University
Plan C, Dereck Daschke
Journal of Religion & Film
This is a film review of PLAN C (2023), directed by Tracy Droz Tragos.
Scrapper,
2023
University of Kent at Canterbury - U.K.
Scrapper, Christopher R. Deacy
Journal of Religion & Film
This is a film review of Scrapper (2023), directed by Charlotte Regan.
Fairyland,
2023
University of Kent at Canterbury - U.K.
Fairyland, Christopher R. Deacy
Journal of Religion & Film
This is a film review of Fairyland (2023), directed by Andrew Durham.
A Little Prayer,
2023
University of Kent at Canterbury - U.K.
A Little Prayer, Christopher R. Deacy
Journal of Religion & Film
This is a film review of A Little Prayer (2023), directed by Angus MacLachlan.
Passages,
2023
University of Kent at Canterbury - U.K.
Passages, Christopher R. Deacy
Journal of Religion & Film
This is a film review of Passages (2023), directed by Ira Sachs.
