- Zen fascism
- californication
- self as erotic savior-slave in crisis settlerism
- there are constitutive contradictions in liberalism
- i.e. universalism and individualism
- stress (i.e. crisis, Collapse) exposes them
- this creates the Liberalism Legitimacy Crisis:
- as these contradictions intensify, liberalism loses credibility|validity as an ideological system.
- it can’t produce the resolutions it promises
- so it shifts to promising regulation
- see Foucault
- California as projection zone: California Gold Rush, Misiones Californianas (the Patronato Real of California), psychedelic revolution, Hollywood, Esalen Institute, techno-utopianism
- californication is a process of responding to systemic contradictions by performing personal coherence?
- doesn’t address structural tension
- processes it as a material to be commodified
- aesthetic, affect
- Brian Wilson (and the Barenaked Ladies song)
- Valley of the Dolls
- On the Road
- californication as genre scripting: genre structures expectation (Lauren Berlant)
- platformal liberalism induces californication as the dominant genre of contradiction management
- crisis is trauma, mood, healing
- MASH television show, Red Hot Chili Peppers, skateboarding
- cybernetic settlerism, cybernetic subject
- you change the world by how you route events into mood, not with your beliefs or action (which come from mood)
- Calm app, Burning Man, lifehacking, microdosing
- Zen
- don’t fear Collapse: be serene
- detachmenet
- nonreactivity
- Apple advertisement (1984 novel)
- Starfleet and San Fransisco (Misiones Fransiscanas?)
- ayahuasca entrepreneurism
- stoicism, in late-season MASH
- eroticization of detachment
- source of good affect, source of good life
- crisis is the source of healing, spiritual growth, betterment of self
- liberalism is legitimate /because/ it produces crisis
- trauma aesthetic and aesthetic trauma
- vagus nerve, self-regulation
- savior-slave subject
- californicational subject is:
- savior
- personally responsible for managing global crises
- slave
- governed by external systems (and crises)
- Collapse as performable norm:
- collapse is not hidden or denied, it’s:
- narrativized (healing arc)
- monetized (survivalism, resilience, adaptation)
- collapse becomes sustained because it is wanted
- this makes wanting to resolve it incommensurable
- more structures and incentive and power-force to sustain it than end it
- RAND Institute, Summer of Love
- shift from Trapper to BJ: critiquing to affecting
- Disneyland
- Watts Rebellion
- The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test
- California Über Alles
- Reaganonimics
- The Day After
- Rodney King Uprising
- doomscrolling, rageposting