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Originally Posted by demonrail666

Yeah, the 'spectacle' is definitely a reference to Guy Debord. 'Empire' I take as just referring to western political and cultural imperialism. Bloom is a reference to the character in Ulysses but I've not read the 'Bloom' piece so don't know why or how.

I don't know what you'll make of Society of the Spectacle. It's not an easy read. More like a (long) manifesto made up of fragments. It lends itself to dipping into, rather than being read in the conventional cover-to-cover way. If you haven't already read Marcuse's One-Dimensional Man, I'd say that'd provide a far more readable (and definitely more substantial, on an intellectual level) backdrop to a lot of the ideas underpinning Young-Girl.

ha! i see the connections w/ marcuse now but first i thought this was more of a deleuzian tract less frankfurt school.

empire-- see, i don't see the "imperialism", as, there is no emperor, i see an emergent system, yes, but i see no top-down authority, rather, the system itself creates and selects its own bosses. an empire without agency. a fiction. anyway, etc.

bloom-- yes i got the reference (mrkgnao!) because there's a tiqqun text that talks about a "bloom object" and starts with that ulysses scene when poldy feeds the pussens, but i didn't make it past the first paragraph and i was hoping someone would offer a summary.

BUT HEY

brazil/uruguay today which means reading will suffer. ha! ha ha ha! imperialistic entertainments! spectacle! and why not?

alright thanks for the reply man. see you later i'm sure in the fútbol thread.