Comments on: gemeinkitsch, the alienated majesty of alienation, loving the emergency, etc http://adswithoutproducts.com/2008/04/13/gemeinkitsch-the-alienated-majesty-of-alienation-loving-the-emergency-etc/ Thu, 08 Jan 2009 11:22:01 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=MU hourly 1 By: CR http://adswithoutproducts.com/2008/04/13/gemeinkitsch-the-alienated-majesty-of-alienation-loving-the-emergency-etc/#comment-682 CR Tue, 15 Apr 2008 19:14:53 +0000 http://adswithoutproducts.com/?p=386#comment-682 Right. Which is of course the logic of the advertisement itself in the first place, this symptom treating / victim blaming stuff... Right. Which is of course the logic of the advertisement itself in the first place, this symptom treating / victim blaming stuff…

]]> By: jane http://adswithoutproducts.com/2008/04/13/gemeinkitsch-the-alienated-majesty-of-alienation-loving-the-emergency-etc/#comment-681 jane Mon, 14 Apr 2008 15:34:22 +0000 http://adswithoutproducts.com/?p=386#comment-681 The obv thing to say abut Lasn is that it proposes <i>exactly</i> to treat the symptoms, which is perhaps the inevitable result of the abstraction of abstraction. The giveaway is the use of the phrase "live without dead time," of which <i>Adbusters</i> and DJ Spooky are so fond: where, after all, does this "dead time" come from? From within oneself, such that one may simply <i>opt</i> to do without it? Wait — that's not treating the symptom, that's blaming the victim.... The obv thing to say abut Lasn is that it proposes exactly to treat the symptoms, which is perhaps the inevitable result of the abstraction of abstraction. The giveaway is the use of the phrase “live without dead time,” of which Adbusters and DJ Spooky are so fond: where, after all, does this “dead time” come from? From within oneself, such that one may simply opt to do without it?

Wait — that’s not treating the symptom, that’s blaming the victim….

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