Anyone got a PDF download of that book?
I'm starting to think that the reason egalitarian systems are failing to gain traction is because we spend too much...
Camden Smith
Jack Hernandez
Best i can do is a epub on libgen
gen.lib.rus.ec
Tyler Adams
OK so basically you want to revive ideal art and create a utopia which people can dream about, where socialism promises to fight for that utopia.
Christian Green
I cry everytime
Isaiah Morgan
You are correct from a sympathetic standpoint, but this literally cannot end well as real life politics. It's overly simplistic emotional nonsense.
Joshua Gutierrez
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Lucas Ortiz
Man, WHAT HAS HAPPENED to science fiction? Where is it? You know something is weird with a genre when there are more parodies of it than non-parodies. How many examples of SF do you guys know that is neither
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And what percentage of the media pile tagged science-fiction would be that other stuff? I have come to hate the third type the most.
Happy ending in post-apocalyptic stories is just a code word for cool-guy genocide.
I'd love to see some socialist anime that's basically a chill soap/comedy, where nothing dark and "realistic" (in the sense of Batman and Coldsteel) ever happens, and where the glorious gommie future is just the backdrop of that, with micro factoids about that society steadily trickling into the subconscious of the viewers, like our satanic Frankfurt School Overgaylords would have wanted ;_;
Bentley Brooks
So what you're basically talking about is a political aesthetic, one that paints an idealized picture of the world we want to build? Well I would imagine it would be one that promotes an image of freedom, democracy, industry, co-operation, selflessness, and above all, the freedom from a power that sits on high and commands the masses. Typically socialist movements in the past have use four images in particular: militancy, industry, prosperity, and co-operation. This are traits that are emphasized in most socialist art.
Pic related is a perfect example. Workers, soldiers, farmers, engineers, scientists, students. All moving together in unison for mutual benefit, surrounded by the prosperity that their co-operation and industriousness has built.
Josiah Carter
What I find interesting is how dystopia has become the norm for science fiction. It really proves that what Zizek saying about the end of the world being easier to imagine than the end of capitalism.
Egalitarian futuristic societies are now, weirdly, all militaristic societies. People can only imagine egalitarianism within the only more-or-less egalitarian institution they know, the army. The idea of mankind rejecting hierarchy and classes through reason and technological progress, which was once everywhere, would seem corny af now, because no one would be able to project themselves in it.
Ian Ramirez
Yes, but what I'm really trying to convey here is that this imaginary utopia is not constructed only through straight up fictional stories, it's everywhere. Our language, our symbols, our aesthetic preferences, the art we produce and share.