Anchoring Oktoberfest/Indianer genring post in theory
I just wrote Post to @emsenn@kolektiva.social, 2025-09-20 08:29h, On Oktoberfest as Bavarian genring and its relationship to Indianthusiasm and I want to go ahead and write through some of the claims and their theoretical referrants, in case i want to come back to the idea later.
- genre can be a technology of governance when liberal subjectivation is a mode of governance
- interpellation via costuming and performingn
- affective economics and affective ontologizing make stereotypes feel true
- Sara Ahmed, affective economics, stickiness of affect
- Lauren Berlant, cruel optimism
- Brian Massumi on intensity and affect
- invented tradition creates the Volk
- Eric Hobsbawn, Terrence Ranger, invented tradition
- George L. Mosse, volkisch nationalism, Volksgemeinschaft
- colonial optics in and out the nation
- biopolitics and necropolitics, genre as necropolitical categorization mechanism
- exhibitionary complexes train the national gaze:
- Tony Bennett, exhibitionary complex
- Theodor W. Adorno and Max Horkheimer, culture industry
- Guy Debord, society of the spectacle
- Timothy Mitchell, world-as-exhibition
- genre + land = governance of space
- authenticity and crisis management
- Berlant's cruel optimism again
- Mosse aesthetics of politics and mass choreography1
- Benjamin's mythic time and messianic time
- Frantz Fanon, national culture
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Footnotes:
Random thought, but what about connecting governing by genre, mass choreography, and the positivism shared by liberalism and the Church with Kurt Vonnegut's quote about "peculiar travel instructions are dancing lessons from God."