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"Zizek indirectly ruined Marxism as a tool or intellectual analysis by convincing millennial nerds that they could be daring intellectuals for coming up with hot takes on popular movies and TV shows on the basis of their philosophy 101 tier knowledge of Marx, Benjamin, Derrida etc."
"no wonder music culture is rotting; its position as art form is totally bankrupt by its now total accessibility (see: Benjamin)."
"As Walter Benjamin pointed out, psychological realism will never come as close to the meat of human subjectivity as a good, radically indeterminate fairy-tale metaphor. See how he rails against 'the dreadful cobbling-together of disparate elements that loosely make for characters in novels of an inf"
"Not just because of its cinematography. I can't be bothered explaining, but I feel like reading Walter Benjamin's essay 'the storyteller' (not the modern collection, THE essay) would be relevant."
"but sadly im an intellectual, i have glasses, i've read every single book by walter benjamin. it's the glasses that i am genuinely worried about because what if they fall off?"
""His eyes are staring, his mouth is open, his wings are spread. This is how one pictures the angel of history. His face is turned toward the past. Where we perceive a chain of events, he sees one single catastrophe which keeps piling wreckage upon wreckage and hurls it in front of his feet." — Walte"
"Being looked at does not validate your humanity, it just mean you are recieving attention. Remember Walter Benjamin's 'fascism being the aestheticsiation of politics'? 'I hear you' isn't the best phrase grammatically, but at least it conveys something deeper about recognition."
"no wonder music culture is rotting; its position as art form is totally bankrupt by its now total accessibility (see: Benjamin)."
"every gadd'amn day i wish jean baudrillard and mark fischer and walter benjamin and guy debord and susan sontag and g. w. f. hegel himself were all here to watch the hulu continuation with me"
"Remember Walter Benjamin's 'fascism being the aestheticsiation of politics'?"