Adam Curtis on the dangers of self-expression (2017)

Re:Adam Curtis on the dangers of self-expression (2017) by rexpop on Sunday May 12, 2024 @08:54PM (#40338787)

Firstly, thanks for engaging in earnest with my response.

> Walter Benjamín and Hannah Arendt - and if they aren't considered progressive then I'm not sure what could be.

This reads almost like a joke to me, because neither of these thinkers are radical any longer. "American Pragmatism" is "about as progressive a bunch as I think you could reasonably ask for?"

It was my mistake to use a meaningless word like "conservative," whose antithesis in my mind would be Galeano, Fanon, Federici, or Freire.

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Re:Adam Curtis on the dangers of self-expression (2017) by zoogeny on Monday May 13, 2024 @10:46PM (#40351157)

> neither of these thinkers are radical any longer

I believe the question was whether or not those thinkers were indicative of "anti-collective propaganda" or being "locked inside [...] conservative ideology".

I have no interest in the degree of radicalness. I especially have no interest in thinkers who are even more politically minded than those I have already mentioned.

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Re:Adam Curtis on the dangers of self-expression (2017) by rexpop on Friday May 17, 2024 @10:20AM (#40390245)

There's no such thing as "more" or "less" political writing. May as well say you're interested in "less chemical food." Food is made of chemicals, and the pen is mightier than the sword.

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