/lit/ - Literature

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Unironically, why are women like this? LMAO. Would beat the shit out of this whore.

i just shitposted about Adorno on /trv/ and I'd like you guys to tell me, through the use of obscenities, whether I've missed the mark.
The discussion was about why 'authenticity' is so hard to find while traveling to exotic places. My view is that travel is a mode of cultural production/self-expression, and so, per Adorno, it falls victim to the homogenizing (market) forces that tend to constrain individualism to within margins of acceptability, i.e. that which can be metabolized back into the machine of marketable culture. So when Lord Miles Routledge travels to Afghanistan, he defeats his own purpose by posting about it on youtube and 4chan. He (and everyone with a travel-focused instagram account) have internalized the parameters set by those who monopolize cultural commodities, so what would have been an act of individualism in 1923 is now merely the creation of content for the technofeudalists and the encouragement of others to do so.
The result of this is that any experience which you would be tempted to label as 'authentic' comes with a feeling of detachment and irony.
Pretty astounding how well Adorno (and I'll throw in Ballard as well) holds up today given how long ago he started spouting this stuff.

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