Status Updates From The Obsolescence of the Hum...

Debord & Baudrillard rendered superfluous in a couple of long footnotes, 15 & 20 years before their respective tomes saw the light of day.(along with a sharp analysis of the way the Surrealistes (Debord's intellectual parents) were largely responsible for the recuperation-by-the-spectscle of the concept of alienation🤯)

"...Some of our contemporaries even regard historical figures as non-conformists --- suspicious eccentrics who obviously seem to expect some sort of special treatment. Instead of living in the present, as all honest people do today, they prefer inhabiting the cave of the has-been...."😂😂

"...Some of our contemporaries even regard historical figures as non-conformists --- suspicious eccentrics who obviously seem to expect some sort of special treatment. Instead of living in the present, as all honest people do today, they prefer inhabiting the cave of the has-been...."😂😂

"Others ( as they prove by their reactions to historical films and the like) deem historical figures positively comical. They treat them as provincials of time - people who didn't grow up in the metropolitan "present" and thus act like the village idiots of history or superstitious backwoodsmen. Every electronic device that had not yet been invented back then is treated as one of their touching defects....."😂

First ten pgs of World As Phantom & Matrix, written 10 years before Understanding Media, render M.M. superfluous.

Although it's never spelled out there are some slight hints in the footnotes that Anders had to work with his hands for a living as a WW2 emigre, possibly in some West Coast arms plant. His description of the promethean shame of the incompetent production line worker must be based on personal experience. Some stogie-smoking Okie foreman yelled at the egghead rookie and inadvertently caused a philosophical masterpiece

Anders' devastating critique of jazz-as-machine-music, which the translator queasily attributes to typical attitudes towards American music of European war emigres, is not only entirely accurate but predicted the destruction of American black music by the computer decades in advance

Never knew shame was so fascinating

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