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Even the reaction to it's cancellation has been centered around the creators being woke and any of actors reactions are some sort of unsubstantiated woke outburst. I know I spoke the word that shall not be invoked, but it bears touching upon while discussing this show.
The whole thing is a mess. On one hand, SW fans can be real babies about certain things. Prequel outrage anyone? And with modern SW I feel like the infantile reaction centers around a lot of suppressed prejudices that have of course become "political". On the other hand, when the show is actually really terrible it does prevent a clear sighted criticism of the product without being overly simplified as a racist tantrum. Two (or more) things can be true at once and this does lock some fans away from voicing their concerns.
Edit: I originally had a big rant about media consumption, echo chambers, and the corporate platforms that serve the celebrity illusion of having your special opinion reach the multitudes here. But honestly I kept thinking about the beginning of Guy Debord's Society of the Spectacle the whole time I wrote it. So here is that instead.
In societies dominated by modern conditions of production, life is preseneted as an immense accumulation of spectacles. Everything that was directly lived has receded into a representation.
The images detached from every aspect of life merge into a common stream in which the unity of that life can no longer be recovered. Fragmented views of reality regroup themselves into a new unity as a separate pseudoworld that can only be looked at. The specialization of images of the world evolves into a world of autonomized images where even the deceivers are deceived. The spectacle is a concrete inversion of life, an autonomous movement of the nonliving.
The specacle presents itself simultaneously as society itself, as a part of society, and as a means of unification. As a part of society, it is the focal point of all vision and all consciousness. But due to the very fact that this sector is separate, it is in reality the domain of delusion and false consciousness: the unification it achieves is nothing but an official language of universal separation.
The spectacle is not a collection of images; it is a social relation between people that is mediated by images.
The whole thing is a mess. On one hand, SW fans can be real babies about certain things. Prequel outrage anyone? And with modern SW I feel like the infantile reaction centers around a lot of suppressed prejudices that have of course become "political". On the other hand, when the show is actually really terrible it does prevent a clear sighted criticism of the product without being overly simplified as a racist tantrum. Two (or more) things can be true at once and this does lock some fans away from voicing their concerns.
Edit: I originally had a big rant about media consumption, echo chambers, and the corporate platforms that serve the celebrity illusion of having your special opinion reach the multitudes here. But honestly I kept thinking about the beginning of Guy Debord's Society of the Spectacle the whole time I wrote it. So here is that instead.
In societies dominated by modern conditions of production, life is preseneted as an immense accumulation of spectacles. Everything that was directly lived has receded into a representation.
The images detached from every aspect of life merge into a common stream in which the unity of that life can no longer be recovered. Fragmented views of reality regroup themselves into a new unity as a separate pseudoworld that can only be looked at. The specialization of images of the world evolves into a world of autonomized images where even the deceivers are deceived. The spectacle is a concrete inversion of life, an autonomous movement of the nonliving.
The specacle presents itself simultaneously as society itself, as a part of society, and as a means of unification. As a part of society, it is the focal point of all vision and all consciousness. But due to the very fact that this sector is separate, it is in reality the domain of delusion and false consciousness: the unification it achieves is nothing but an official language of universal separation.
The spectacle is not a collection of images; it is a social relation between people that is mediated by images.
