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cicciapalla's review
4.0
Forse troppa psicoanalisi per l'intento del libro (nonostante sia una grande appassionata di psicoanalisi sopratutto di Lacan).
Spunti molto interessanti ma onestamente pensavo molto più focus sulla relazione tra capitalismo e Candy Crush.
In complesso: bello e interessante.
Spunti molto interessanti ma onestamente pensavo molto più focus sulla relazione tra capitalismo e Candy Crush.
In complesso: bello e interessante.
reibureibu's review
challenging
informative
reflective
medium-paced
4.0
What might be the ideological purpose of that which seems to escape a reading altogether? Not in the surface reading of an ostensibly-ideological activity and its explicit messages, but in the very act of enjoyment as a contrast to productivity and the implicit ideology it breeds through instilling capitalistic guilt within our neoliberal subject formation.
The obvious cliché (seen from a thousand miles away) would be to say that this short monograph is enjoyable, but I do particularly have to commend it as a bite-sized introduction to psychoanalysis that, to my great surprise, makes it greatly enjoyable.
The obvious cliché (seen from a thousand miles away) would be to say that this short monograph is enjoyable, but I do particularly have to commend it as a bite-sized introduction to psychoanalysis that, to my great surprise, makes it greatly enjoyable.
nekokat's review
5.0
I think I lack some of the necessary background to really follow the finer points of this (knowing nothing about Deleuze etc.) but even so, it blew my mind. Can't stop seeing everything I enjoy through this lens now. I'm still processing, but this may have fundamentally reoriented the way I approach entertainment.
xaviershay's review
2.0
not sure if troll
"Enjoyment serves many ideological purposes, a major one being to enforce cultural divides between subjects from various classes and backgrounds, grouping people by what they enjoy and preventing communication across these enjoyment-divides."
I mean ok this is a good start. Seems legit.
"The replacement of the actual other with whom the subject competes (say, a fellow FM gamer from school) with an imaginary or virtual other (the computer AI) offers a way of bringing Freudian psychoanalysis to bear on the modern state."
uhm
"In other words, ‘Gangnam Style’ as a moment of jouissance shows us that we are not unique subjects with unique enjoyments but subjects whose enjoyment forms us in accordance with a set of rules – and that there is therefore no ‘gift of nature’ to what we enjoy at all."
I'm out.
In fairness, this is an inside book and I'm an outsider lacking any prior knowledge to which the author refers. Still..
"Enjoyment serves many ideological purposes, a major one being to enforce cultural divides between subjects from various classes and backgrounds, grouping people by what they enjoy and preventing communication across these enjoyment-divides."
I mean ok this is a good start. Seems legit.
"The replacement of the actual other with whom the subject competes (say, a fellow FM gamer from school) with an imaginary or virtual other (the computer AI) offers a way of bringing Freudian psychoanalysis to bear on the modern state."
uhm
"In other words, ‘Gangnam Style’ as a moment of jouissance shows us that we are not unique subjects with unique enjoyments but subjects whose enjoyment forms us in accordance with a set of rules – and that there is therefore no ‘gift of nature’ to what we enjoy at all."
I'm out.
In fairness, this is an inside book and I'm an outsider lacking any prior knowledge to which the author refers. Still..
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