Yuritopiaposadism [none/use name]@hexbear.net to politics@hexbear.netEnglish · 19 hours agoNew Reality TV Show That Sees immigrants Compete for US Citizenship Has Backing of Trump Administration: Reportwww.yahoo.comexternal-linkmessage-square29linkfedilinkarrow-up161arrow-down10
arrow-up161arrow-down1external-linkNew Reality TV Show That Sees immigrants Compete for US Citizenship Has Backing of Trump Administration: Reportwww.yahoo.comYuritopiaposadism [none/use name]@hexbear.net to politics@hexbear.netEnglish · 19 hours agomessage-square29linkfedilink
minus-squareBeamBrain [he/him]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up11·edit-216 hours ago In their discussion of what the media theorist Nick Couldry calls its ‘theatre of cruelty’, Henry Giroux and Philip Mirowski, among many others, have have written extensively on neoliberalism’s sadistic culture, the increasingly open vilification of ‘losers’ and the crowing of and over ‘winners’. Swathes of mass entertainment celebrate physical agony (‘torture porn’), metaphorical ‘eviction’ (reality TV) and the punitive gaze at the desperate – leavened with the schmaltz that is its obverse. As Mirowski points out, in Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste, it is not, of course, that ‘spectacles of cruelty’ are new, but that the theatre is ‘unabashed’, ‘has been made to seem so unexceptional’; and that in the context of neoliberalism it is doing something distinct. It serves, he says, ‘more targeted purposes [than distraction], such as teaching techniques optimised to reinforce the neoliberal self’. (CW for SA, colonial atrocity, and war crime descriptions in the linked article)
minus-squareiie [they/them, he/him]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·edit-213 hours agoGreat essay, the psychological side of neoliberalism needs a bigger spotlight.
(CW for SA, colonial atrocity, and war crime descriptions in the linked article)
Great essay, the psychological side of neoliberalism needs a bigger spotlight.