the pervert's guide to power electronics (dir. Sophie Fiennes, 2016)
*Slavoj Zizek voice* These genres of so-called “extreme music” are often
condemned as you know, these reactionary, rightist, fascist forms of
art, and so on…but many of these artists have this radically leftist
message at the… obscene core of their songs. For example, the English
group Whitehouse, of course named after the famous pornographic magazine
*nose wipe* and also moral crusader Mary Whitehouse have a song
“Dumping the Fucking Rubbish” from their album “Aseticists 2006” which
perfectly embodies dialectics of power and revolutionary potential…in
a…almost marxist critique of ideology. The song begins with a list of
these horrible sexual and psychological perversions you know, rape,
parental deprivation, and so on…but then radically shifts toward the
end, where the message is in essence “yes, these terrible things have
happened to you, but you must not feel sorry for yourself, you must sort
of…take the psychological burden of these traumatic events and
radically alter them to overcome your past, and so on…This functions as a
wonderful critique of neoliberal ideology. *nose wipe* You know we have
this sort of message from all over the world where we hear people say
“oh our government is doing terrible things in our name, the press is
not free, drone strikes are killing civilians, we are being exploited,”
and so on but then they say “oh there is nothing that can be done,” This
passive acceptance of the so-called “political reality” is crucial to
neoliberal ideology, and in order to transform our societies, it is the
first thing we must get rid of… *cut to Zizek emerging from a pile of
garbage* this is the message of the song that we must radically alter
the way we think about our societies…we must undergo a radical,
revolutionary change where we “dump the fucking rubbish,” like the
Jacobins during the French Revolution or the purges of kulaks in the
Soviet Union, and so on. *nose wipe* It is only by dumping this rubbish
of neoliberal ideology that we can alter our fate.
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condemned as you know, these reactionary, rightist, fascist forms of
art, and so on…but many of these artists have this radically leftist
message at the… obscene core of their songs. For example, the English
group Whitehouse, of course named after the famous pornographic magazine
*nose wipe* and also moral crusader Mary Whitehouse have a song
“Dumping the Fucking Rubbish” from their album “Aseticists 2006” which
perfectly embodies dialectics of power and revolutionary potential…in
a…almost marxist critique of ideology. The song begins with a list of
these horrible sexual and psychological perversions you know, rape,
parental deprivation, and so on…but then radically shifts toward the
end, where the message is in essence “yes, these terrible things have
happened to you, but you must not feel sorry for yourself, you must sort
of…take the psychological burden of these traumatic events and
radically alter them to overcome your past, and so on…This functions as a
wonderful critique of neoliberal ideology. *nose wipe* You know we have
this sort of message from all over the world where we hear people say
“oh our government is doing terrible things in our name, the press is
not free, drone strikes are killing civilians, we are being exploited,”
and so on but then they say “oh there is nothing that can be done,” This
passive acceptance of the so-called “political reality” is crucial to
neoliberal ideology, and in order to transform our societies, it is the
first thing we must get rid of… *cut to Zizek emerging from a pile of
garbage* this is the message of the song that we must radically alter
the way we think about our societies…we must undergo a radical,
revolutionary change where we “dump the fucking rubbish,” like the
Jacobins during the French Revolution or the purges of kulaks in the
Soviet Union, and so on. *nose wipe* It is only by dumping this rubbish
of neoliberal ideology that we can alter our fate.
source
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