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On 22/09/12 Alan Sondheim <[email protected]> wrote: > > > >Against Aphorisms > > >Facebook is loaded with them. At one point I loved Karl Krauss, >Adorno's Minima Moralia, Schlegel. But aphorisms out of context, >used as slogans on Facebook, presenting the righteous act or >moment, are deadly; they're inauthentic in the existentialist >sense, cut off; they don't spur to action - they make one feel >better under capital, they suture the subject with a thinned-out >cleverness, they make it appear as if something actually has >been accomplished. The more famous the writer quoted, the better >the aphorism appears to be, the name lending false authority to >the vapidity of the words. And Facebook's aphorisms stand for >the speed-up of the attention economy; why worry about something >if an aphorism seems to sum it up in a few words that slip by, >require little thought? The aphorism not only stands in for >action; it also stands in for the depth of thought and context >necessary for understanding, particularly given the complexities >of the world we live in. This isn't true for all aphorisms, of >course, but the short quote, the succinct phrase, gives us >pleasure, even when we're contemplating slaughter, racism, >violence, and so forth. At the least, give sources and urls so >that one might take some sort of action, instead of nothing more >than agreement over the superstructure of word-choice. The use >of aphorisms is as well meaning, as meaning is drained by their >use of them. We should all wake up in the midst of the battle- >field by any other name... > >_______________________________________________ >NetBehaviour mailing list >[email protected] >http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour -- http://jwm-art.net/ image/audio/text/code/ _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list [email protected] http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
