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>The Theory of Bloom is a foundational text in Tiqqun's works, and everything else they wrote either contains explicit references to it or works off its content. In summary (that does the work very little justice, but I'll try my best), Theory of Bloom (henceforth referred to as ToB) describes the absolute, metaphysical alienation that has come to be the most definitive (and yet subtle) features of modernity. This fundamental tonality of being, this Stimmung, is at once a condition shared by all and the most private, individual truth. It's the result of the collapse of identity and subjectivity and Capital's cybernetic response to that collapse. Thus, in one way or another, we have all become Blooms (because we live in Bloom), but you can catch glimpses of its deepest, most explicit manifestations (for Bloom is always timid and prone to hiding) in things like spree shootings, suicides, this fucking website, or in certain forms of music.

>Book quotes that I think explain the general outline more concisely than I have:
"All around us a petrified world spreads forth, a world of things where we ourselves figure with our egos, our gestures, and even our feelings as things themselves...we are...the exile who's never completely sure of what's going on around him"

>"A reasonable mind concluded one day: 'actually, Bloom is alienated man'. Not so. Bloom is the man so thoroughly conjoined with his alienation that it's absurd to try and distinguish between the two."

https://archive.rebeccablacktech.com/mu/thread/48008195#p48021858

>> No.6844140

Why would you quote Bloom Theory via mu? Bloom Theory exists separately to music and is more /lit/ than anything. Shit, the essay on Bloom Theory begins with a Joyce excerpt, if my memory serves me correctly.

>> No.6844143

>>6844140
That specific /mu thread was my first encounter with the subject. I'm sorry.

>> No.6844154

>>6844143
So what's the intention of this, thread other than you just pasting some text, the context of which you don't understand, into the post box?

>> No.6844165

>>6844154
here's your reply

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>>6844140
This guy..

>> No.6844199

If only it had been written by Americans, or Germans, or Italians—literally anyone else in the world would write clearer than these ghastly Frenchmen!!!

>> No.6844243

>>6844154
obviously so that people that are knowledgeable on the subject can contribute to some sort of discussion about it, fagtron

>> No.6844257

>>6844243
this era is as indescribable as any other; that doesn't merit obscurantist treatises, imo

>> No.6844363

>>6844257
I bet you're one of those people that think LITERALLY NO ONE understands Hegel or Heidegger just because you don't.