Project for the critique of internet culture

“A Critique of Internet Culture”

Thesis: a folding of the neoliberal subject into himself through the mass system of his objects

A Critique of Internet Ideas

• Objects
  • Ideas
    • communication as a fact of associated living
    • cohistoricizing as a sharing-in-together
    • as a balm against throwness, a priori precarity (doubt)
  • Mediators
    • ownership qualia
    • expressor tensors, or multi-valent utterance-relations
    • omnipresence of the “owned” or “I-have”
  • Representations
    • the treachery of images (“terminally online”)
    • the coercion of images (colors, emphasis on cartoons)
    • the incoherence of images (when does representation end and presentation begin?)

A Critique of Internet Reason

• Subjects
  • Thoughts
    • aesthesis
    • semio-hermeneusis
    • commens
  • Behaviors
    • one-one
      • Friendship-Animosity
      • Love-Hate
      • Utility (Money-Quanta) - Illth (Qualia)
    • One-Many
      • Leadership-relations
      • Scapegoat-relations
      • cult-relations
    • Many-Many
      • Class-relations
      • Political-relations
      • tribe-relations
  • Motive-Semiotics
    • the imputation of the object to the subject
      • In itself - moral possibility
        • Universal (Human Consciousness, subjective condition, “moral law”)
        • Individual (this situation)
        • Particular (moral claim / indictment of a subject)
      • For itself - moral actuality
        • Universal (Objective conditions)
        • Individual (this situation, comparison to other subjects who “chose otherwise”)
          • Object₁ -subject₁ ∧ Object₂-subject₂
          • Object₁ differs from Object₂ only in space-time: “all else is equal”
          • therefore, subject₁ could have chosen as subject₂ did
        • Particular (moral reduction of objectivity to subjective choice)
          • therefore, subject₁ must “do better”
      • In and for itself - moral necessity
        • Universal claim of possible moral reductivism
        • Individual re-affirmation of the concretion of that universal possibility
        • Particular justification for ruthless criticism of the subject
    • the monetary motive-reduction
    • the image as power (musculature, makeup)

A Critique of Internet Culture

• Actions
  • Abstract (object-subject dialectic)
    • the finiteness of the subject (formal condition for criticism)
    • the infinity of the object (material condition for criticism)
    • critical discourse
      • Finiteness -> mistakes
      • Infinity -> dependence
      • Motive reduction
  • Negation (the motive reduction)
    • mystical-experiential claims
    • scientific-methodological claims
    • Sermo pro tempore - all claims redound to time
  • Concrete
    • Sex
    • Humor
    • Thrownness
      • Bodily and propositional knowledge
      • Theoretical (know-that) and practical (know-how) knowledge
      • the impotence of reflection - all unreflective speech infinitely outstrips the finitude of reflection
        • shitposts, memes, 21st century humor

the subjective cause of a man’s seeking out entertainment online is nothing other than the effect of that seeking, so that a man receives nothing but a reaffirmation of the cause in idle-time; he becomes nothing because he therein is nothing, and it is this feeling that draws him to engage and, ultimately, disengage

I need to say something here about my theory of “interstitiality” as well - that the internet, and all media, exist as “between” unending labor cycles and processes. Even free time is nothing but a means to get us back to work (Nietzsche, Gay Science; Ruskin, Until This Last)

reference: [[ 2022-04-05 ]]