#control social

[bocadosdefilosofia]

«Sólo inmerso en la masa puede el hombre redimirse de este temor al contacto. Se trata de la única situación en la que este temor se convierte en su contrario. Es esta densa masa la que se necesita para ello, cuando un cuerpo se estrecha contra otro cuerpo, densa también en su constitución anímica, es decir, cuando no se presta atención a quién es el que le «estrecha» a uno. Así, una vez que uno se ha abandonado a la masa no teme su contacto. En este caso ideal todos son iguales entre sí. Ninguna diferencia cuenta, ni siquiera la de los sexos. Quien quiera que sea el que se oprime contra uno, se le encuentra idéntico a uno mismo. Se le percibe de la misma manera en que uno se percibe a sí mismo. De pronto, todo acontece como dentro de un cuerpo. Acaso sea ésta una de las razones por las que la masa procura estrecharse tan densamente: quiere desembarazarse lo más perfectamente posible del temor al contacto de los individuos».

Elías Canetti: Masa y poder. Muchnik Editores, pág. 4. Barcelona, 1981

TGO

@bocadosdefilosofia

@dies-irae-1

#elías canetti #canetti #masa y poder #masa #poder #contacto #contacto personal #miedo #miedo al contacto #filosofía social #antropología #sociología #cuerpo #indistinción personal #teo gómez otero #premio nobel #premio nobel de literatura #masas #control social #individuo #individuos

[anadelacalle]

El miedo oceánico: base del control social.

El miedo, como pánico y angustia ante un posible peligro, se ha convertido en uno de los mecanismos de control social más eficaces en nuestros tiempos. Si ya podía serlo, en otros momentos, la revolución digital que ha dado lugar al uso masivo y cotidiano de las redes sociales ha multiplicado exponencialmente la difusión de el objeto que debería provocarnos pavor. El motivo que irrumpe como…

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#Alejandra Pizarnik #angustia #angustia existencial #control social #fantasmas #materialidad #miedo #pavor oceánico

[lilithism1848]

#anti capitalism #leftism #communism #socialism #anarchy #abortion rights #reproductive freedom #bodily autonomy #abortion #reproductive rights #birth control #pro abortion #pro choice #abortion is healthcare #pro life #anti abortion #radical feminism #radical feminists do interact #radical feminist safe #gender roles #anti religion #fuck the patriarchy #sex based oppression #radical feminists do touch

[capitalism-and-analytics]

#2ndamendment #2nd amendment #second amendment #gun control #gun rights #conservative #fiscal conservatives #conservatives #liberal #capitalism #socialism #politics #anticapitalism

[ireton]

There are going to be people that will not comply.

Absolute and total non-compliance is the only way to stop this attempted takeover of our lives and our very way of life.

#WEF #World Economic Forum #Social Credit System #NWO #New World Order #Injection #Control #Digital Process

[soft5ku11]

i know this isnt what i usually post, "shut up fat kink blog" i dont fucking care sit the hell down and listen.

You're aware of the Huion New Year AIGI Tweet, right?

LEST WE FORGET, back in november last year:

If you want to buy a Wacom, Huion or Gaumon device, I'd recommend either looking into an alternative or buying secondhand/refurbished from 3rd party sellers on Ebay or something. Avoid Amazon for all the obvious reasons.

This is fucking disgusting. This is embarrassing. This is unacceptable.

most importantly,

They won't stop.

#lobby your local law places or whatever im not a lawyer #your representatives #controlling the use of AI and AIGIs for use in marketing needs to end and it will only end once its fucking illegal. #if anyone has any additions PLEASE add on to this post #if I'm wrong also please let me know because im dont wanna b responsible for spreading misinfo #god im pissed off. #wacom drama starts like a month after i drop a chunk of my life savings on a cintiq #im so over capitalism #im so over social media #hate it hate it hate it bite bite scratch chew kill #soft5ku11 speaking

[genderkoolaid]

really like viewing anti transmasculinity through the lens of consumability. because ive seen so often things be framed as "transmasculinity isn't as interrogated because masculinity isn't as scrutinized" but I think it's much better to view it as transmasculinity being unpalatable to transphobic misogyny. like part of how the patriarchy constructs womanhood is that it is inherently desirable in the sense that women Must be something to be consumed. any part of woman(-ified people) that isn't palatable (body hair, bodily functions) is erased.

#m. #also I don't think that patriarchy is controlled By the desires of cishet men its more that forcing women Et Al to exist for cishet men's #consumption keeps in place the social dynamics which create power #antitransmasculinity #transandrophobia

[sordidamok]

Good job, Mainers.

#maine #gun control #vote blue #vote democrat #vote blue to save democracy #vote biden #vote blue 2024 #democracy #social democracy #gun control now #democratic socialism #democrats now socialism later #its the guns

[anadelacalle]

Educar en la sociedad del deseo.

Las generaciones que vienen -jóvenes, adolescentes, niños- están siendo educadas en una especie de empíreo falaz. Provocamos se crean el centro del mundo, como si a éste le importaran algo, cada vez que satisfacemos caprichos reiteradamente, les espetamos un “no” absolutamente licuado que se desvanece al cabo de un breve lapso. Por un lado, los padres se esfuerzan en que disfruten convencidos de…

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#Êthos #consumo #control social #cualidades versus cantidades #Deseos #Educación #engaños #falacias #Fortaleza #fragilidad #habilidades #límites

[furiousgoldfish]

I dislike the term 'trust issues' because it implies that the trust should be the default, and that the one who 'doesn't trust' is somehow morally wrong for it.

In reality, we learned very slowly and painfully where we can and can't trust. People are born with infinite and instinctual trust; as a toddler, you didn't suspect anyone, didn't doubt anyone. You couldn't. It was by repeated interactions, inflicted displeasure, disappointment, pain, betrayal, rejection, abandonment and grief that you learned to predict and mimic other people's behaviour. Your trust has remained only where it has not been broken.

For someone to fear interactions with other people, they would have to be utterly broken by what other people did to them, and how much verbal abuse and trauma they suffered. For someone to not trust others to touch them, they would have to be tortured and severely violated by human touch. People crave both interaction and touch, and for that craving to be overwritten by fear, it had to be proven unbearable and deadly to be touched and interacted with. People don't lose their trust completely for anything less.

Even when all trust is lost, it can be re-established by very slow, cautious and consistent actions. If another person took care to approach you slowly, to be very consistent with their actions, never attempted to violate you, took great care to understand and protect your comfort - after a while of confirming that they mean it, you could potentially feel safe around them. Unless this is exactly how someone approached you before, and they did it right until the point you relaxed, and then they betrayed your trust and hurt you. Sometimes, that happens too. In that case, it becomes even harder to establish trust.

But if someone wants your trust after all you've been put thru, they should earn it. They should figure out your ideal pace and your level of comfort and be respectful of your boundaries, not once or twice, but consistently. And even then, you don't owe your trust to them. You don't owe it to anybody. You do not have to risk your well being for someone else's curiosity or desires or whatever kind of intentions they have with you. You don't need to expose yourself to a potential new trauma just so someone wouldn't accuse you of having 'trust issues'. What exactly do they want to do to you that requires your blind trust? Why should anyone require trust they didn't earn?

Trust comes naturally, and is broken forcefully. If someone refuses to acknowledge that your trust was broken by force, and not by your choice, they're not the kind of person to be trusted.

#trust issues #betrayal #trust to be touched #trust to be interacted with #social anxiety #trauma and trust #getting triggered by people repeating abusive patterns #then accused its your fault you feel uncomfortable around them #like you can control where you do and don't feel comfort in your life #ugh

[capitalism-and-analytics]

#politics #liberal #conservative #republican #democrat #libertarian #capitalism #communism #congress #progressive #socialism #antisocialism #anticapitalism #anticommunism #2nd amendment #second amendment #firearms #gun control #gun rights #self defense

[anghraine]

Okay, breaking my principles hiatus again for another fanfic rant despite my profound frustration w/ Tumblr currently:

I have another post and conversation on DW about this, but while pretty much my entire dash has zero patience with the overtly contemptuous Hot Fanfic Takes, I do pretty often see takes on Fanfiction's Limitations As A Form that are phrased more gently and/or academically but which rely on the same assumptions and make the same mistakes.

IMO even the gentlest, and/or most earnest, and/or most eruditely theorized takes on fanfiction as a form still suffer from one basic problem: the formal argument does not work.

I have never once seen a take on fanfiction as a form that could provide a coherent formal definition of what fanfiction is and what it is not (formal as in "related to its form" not as in "proper" or "stuffy"). Every argument I have ever seen on the strengths/weaknesses of fanfiction as a form vs original fiction relies to some extent on this lack of clarity.

Hence the inevitable "what about Shakespeare/Ovid/Wide Sargasso Sea/modern takes on ancient religious narratives/retold fairy tales/adaptation/expanded universes/etc" responses. The assumptions and assertions about fanfiction as a form in these arguments pretty much always should apply to other things based on the defining formal qualities of fanfic in these arguments ("fanfiction is fundamentally X because it re-purposes pre-existing characters and stories rather than inventing new ones" "fanfiction is fundamentally Y because it's often serialized" etc).

Yet the framing of the argument virtually always makes it clear that the generalizations about fanfic are not being applied to Real Literature. Nor can this argument account for original fics produced within a fandom context such as AO3 that are basically indistinguishable from fanfic in every way apart from lacking a canon source.

At the end of the day, I do not think fanfic is "the way it is" because of any fundamental formal qualities—after all, it shares these qualities with vast swaths of other human literature and art over thousands of years that most people would never consider fanfic. My view is that an argument about fanfic based purely on form must also apply to "non-fanfic" works that share the formal qualities brought up in the argument (these arguments never actually apply their theories to anything other than fanfic, though).

Alternately, the formal argument could provide a definition of fanfic (a formal one, not one based on judgment of merit or morality) that excludes these other kinds of works and genres. In that case, the argument would actually apply only to fanfic (as defined). But I have never seen this happen, either.

So ultimately, I think the whole formal argument about fanfic is unsalvageably flawed in practice.

Realistically, fanfiction is not the way it is because of something fundamentally derived from writing characters/settings etc you didn't originate (or serialization as some new-fangled form, lmao). Fanfiction as a category is an intrinsically modern concept resulting largely from similarly modern concepts of intellectual property and auteurship (legally and culturally) that have been so extremely normalized in many English-language media spaces (at the least) that many people do not realize these concepts are context-dependent and not universal truths.

Fanfic does not look like it does (or exist as a discrete category at all) without specifically modern legal practices (and assumptions about law that may or may not be true, like with many authorial & corporate attempts to use the possibility of legal threats to dictate terms of engagement w/ media to fandom, the Marion Zimmer Bradley myth, etc).

Fanfic does not look like it does without the broader fandom cultures and trends around it. It does not look like it does without the massive popularity of various romance genres and some very popular SF/F. It does not look like it does without any number of other social and cultural forces that are also extremely modern in the grand scheme of things.

The formal argument is just so completely ahistorical and obliviously presentist in its assumptions about art and generally incoherent that, sure, it's nicer when people present it politely, but it's still wrong.

#this is probably my most pretentious fanfiction defense squad post but it's difficult to express in other terms #like. people talking about ao3 house style (not always by name but clearly referring to it) as a result of fanfic as a form #and not the social/cultural effect of ao3 as a fandom space #you don't get ao3 house style without ao3 itself and you don't get ao3 without strikethrough and livejournal etc #and you don't get those without authors and corporations trying to exercise control over fic based on law (often us law) & myths about law #and you don't get those without distinctly modern concepts of intellectual property and copyright #none of those things have fuck all to do with form! #anghraine rants #fanfiction #general fanwank #long post #thinking about this partly because the softer & gentler versions of fanfic discourse keep crossing my dash #and partly because i've written like 30 pages about a playwright i adore who was just not very good at 'original fiction' as we'd define it #both his major works are ... glorified rpf in our context but splendid tragedies in his #and the idea of categorizing /anything/ in that era by originality of conception rather than comedy/tragedy/etc would be buckwild #ivory tower blogging #anghraine's meta

[koko2unite]

hmm feeling a little upset today again but what's new lol

#and of course its about always stressing about either day job #or social media engagement #or my art #like always those there #can those three be easy and controllable for a second please

[mysharona1987]

#Tiktok #news #gun control #politics #social media #tik tok #cnn #montana #gop #liberals

[chknbzkt]

Cw: Animal death, blood and gore

Day 18 of DCA Promptober: Beast

He probably got out while he was in a stupor, he gets stupid hangry fresh after a shift and the local game are always sure to suffer for it

One of Sun’s worst fears is that one day the carcass he comes-to half-devoured is a person. Moon, Monty, and the rest of the glams have been diligent in watching over him on moon weeks for years, but things like this do happen and it haunts his nightmares how easy it is for him to potentially maul someone he cares about

Or worse: share his “predicament” with them

#cw blood #cw animal death #cw: gore #bzkt barf #fnaf sun #werebeast sun #fnaf halloween #halloween au #fnaf daycare attendant #dca fandom #art #artistsontumblr #fnaf sb au #all that aside he’s a bigger fan of elk #deer don’t have that richness elk have in his esteemed opinion #as opinionated as a fluffy monster that has eaten out of a dumpster at least several times is anyway 😭 #still… you have to imagine the stress of being a therianthrope who seemingly naturally can’t get a grip on full moons #you want to let yourself make more connections… but what if #and that fear and anxiety controls the trajectory of your life #for a social and friendly person like sun it’s like a metaphorical leash #heh… how ironic