Babble, [2025-09-02 Tue 20:03], On Californication

Here's some random keywords that have to do with californication, until I can come write something proper:

• California serves a place where liberal contradictions are formatted into fantasy
• Hollywood, suburbia, cul-de-sac, surfing (Charlie don't surf), Silicon Valley, Palo Alto
  • aesthetic infrastructure of modern liberalism
• liberal worlding, mode of liberal worlding
• Michel Foucault, productive power
  • subjection, subjectivation
  • liberal subject who has libidinal affect toward liberal norms
• Antonio Gramsci, organic intellectual naturalizes from social body
  • californication naturalizes liberal subjectivity as common-sense good life
• Korean War, Vietnam War, MASH television show
• Lauren Berlant, genring, genre expectation, anticipation, genre expectation, genre of continuity: narrativizing crisis as the resolution of anxiety (see anxiety, liberal anxiety, neurotic intellectual)
  • Margaret Wetherell, Arlie Russell Hochschild, affect theory, feeling rules, routinization, leisure, recreation, youth, wellness
  • californication is inciting subjects into performing contradiction coherently thorugh affect
• libidinal: drive to inhabit order
  • realized through aesthetic and affective control
  • repressive desublimation: pleasure becomes governance: amplifying desiring by producing it into commodity
  • aesthetic intimacy
  • temporal displacement
  • indentificatory subjectivation
• liberalism has constitutive contradiction(s)
  • Lauren Berlant, cruel optimism, Foucault, prohibition to incitement:
    • formatted confession:
      • crisis and collapse as vibe and mood
      • Zen fascism
• Generation X
  • irony, detachment
• Millennial Generation
  • sincerity, platformal authenticity
• neurotic platformal intellectual
• Fredric Jameson, Herbert Marcuse, Guy Debord, Richard Barbrook, Andy Cameron, Stuart Hall, Nikolas Rose, Luc Boltanski, Ève Chiapello, Shoshana Zuboff, José van Dijck, Mike Davis, Raymond Williams, Fred Turner, Eva Illouz

Californication is a conjunctural process for producing structural crises into authenticity.