Search results for ""Author Robert Pfaller""
Verso Books On the Pleasure Principle in Culture: Illusions Without Owners
In this fascinating work of cultural theory and philosophy, Robert Pfaller explores the hidden cost of our contemporary approach to pleasure, belief and illusion. Sports, design, eroticism, social intercourse and games-indeed, all those aspects of our culture commonly deemed "pleasurable"-seem to require beliefs that many regard as illusory. But in considering themselves above the self-deceptions of the crowd, those same sceptics are prone to dismissing a majority of the population as naive or misguided. In doing so, they create a false opposition between the 'simple' masses and their more enlightened rulers. And this dichotomy then functions as an ideological support for neoliberal government: citizens become irrational victims, to be ruled over by a protective security state. What initially appears to be a universal pleasure principle-the role of "anonymous illusions" in mass culture-in this way becomes a rationale for dismantling democracy.
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Edinburgh University Press Interpassivity: The Aesthetics of Delegated Enjoyment
Why do people record TV programmes instead of watching them? Why are some recovering alcoholics pleased to let other people drink in their place? Why can ritual machines pray in place of believers? Robert Pfaller advances a general theory of interpassivity as the wish for delegated consumption and enjoyment in both art and in everyday life, tackling a vast range of phenomena: culture, art, sports and religion.
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Picus Verlag GmbH Die Einbildungen Das Zwiespltige Die Geselligkeit
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FISCHER Taschenbuch Erwachsenensprache ber ihr Verschwinden aus Politik und Kultur
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FISCHER, S. Die blitzenden Waffen ber die Macht der Form
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