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Notes 74–93: Culture, Whiteness, Populism, and Crypto
Notes 74–93: Culture, Whiteness, Populism, and Crypto
74 Adam Scovell, “Why the sinister Shadow of a Doubt was Hitchcock’s favourite Hitchcock,” originally published in the Telegraph, February 7, 2023, available here: https://www.msn.com/en-gb/entertainment/movies/why-the-sinister-shadow-of-a-doubt-was-hitchcock-s-favourite-hitchcock/ar-AA17dmRH?ocid=msedgdhp&pc=U531&cvid=06b49ec2e2be42bd830f5cc2bf6a0e70.
75 Lambert, “Everything Everywhere All At Once: The Essential Explanation.”
76 Alenka Zupančič, “Teorija zarote brez zarote,” Mladina (Ljubljana, January 28, 2022), 54–56.
77 Julio Cota, “Boric’s triumph in Chile is not a victory for the working class,” In Defense of Communism, December 23, 2021, https://www.idcommunism.com/2021/12/borics-triumph-in-chile-is-not-victory-for-the-working-class.html?fbclid=IwAR2PKZmvhRPBVwv853OQI7cVvzP0sZE0xhKRYSK_VPJIk_zMb83AmyUU68U&m=1.
78 I have used this example many times in my work, most extensively in Defense of Lost Causes (London: Verso Books, 2017), Chapter 9.
79 Markus Schwering, “Jürgen Habermas über Corona: ‘So viel Wissen über unser Nichtwissen gab es noch nie,’” Frankfurter Rundschau, April 10, 2020, https://www.fr.de/kultur/gesellschaft/juergen-habermas-coronavirus-krise-covid19-interview-13642491.html.
80 Duane Rouelle, personal communication to author.
81 CNN reporters, “Death of a Revolution,” Tug of War (podcast), December 1, 2021, https://edition.cnn.com/audio/podcasts/tug-of-war/episodes/92a49391-aaa9-442e-9dda-adef00f75877.
82 Alain Badiou, personal communication with author. My only distance from Badiou is that I would also call the Chinese-Russian axis a clique.
83 Christopher Hitchens, “The Old Man,” The Atlantic, July/August 2004, https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2004/07/the-old-man/302984/.
84 Walker Caplan, “The Guardian published a Judith Butler interview—and then deleted an answer about TERFS.” Literary Hub, September 9, 2021, https://lithub.com/the-guardian-published-a-judith-butler-interview-and-then-deleted-a-part-that-condemned-gender-critical-transphobia/.
85 Jack Guy, “Emma Watson’s pro-Palestinian Instagram post sparks ‘anti-Semitism’ spat,” CNN, January 5, 2022, https://edition.cnn.com/2022/01/05/entertainment/emma-watson-antisemitism-instagram-scli-intl/index.html.
86 Michael Wolffsohn and Michael Naumann, “Wer Antisemit ist, bestimmt der Jude und nicht der potenzielle Antisemit,” interview by Christoph Schult and Severin Weiland, Spiegel Politics, December 18, 2020, https://www.spiegel.de/politik/deutschland/michael-wolffsohn-und-michael-naumann-im-streitgespraech-wer-antisemit-ist-bestimmt-der-jude-a-00000000-0002-0001-0000-000174544040.
87 “The NFT: A Wealth and Poverty of Imagination,” Aesthetics for Birds, March 18, 2021, https://aestheticsforbirds.com/2021/03/18/nfts-a-wealth-and-poverty-of-imagination/.
88 “The Environmental Impacts of Cryptomining,” Earthjustice, September 23, 2023, https://earthjustice.org/feature/cryptocurrency-mining-environmental-impacts.
89 Nelson Wan, “NFTs and SPACs: the insanity of casino capitalism,” Socialist Appeal, March 31, 2021, https://socialist.net/nfts-and-spacs-the-insanity-of-casino-capitalism/.
90 “The NFT: A Wealth and Poverty of Imagination,” Aesthetics for Birds.
91 Thom Dunn, “Peter Thiel claims AI is ‘Leninist’ and ‘literally communist’ in a sprawling speech for a think tank,” Boing Boing, December 3, 2023, https://boingboing.net/2019/12/03/peter-thiel-claims-ai-is-len.html.
92 Ibid.
93 David Smith, “How Trump won the election: volatility and a common touch,” The Guardian, November 9, 2016, https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/nov/09/how-did-donald-trump-win-analysis.
练习题
Which note identifies Adam Scovell’s article about Hitchcock’s favorite Hitchcock film, Shadow of a Doubt?
Which pairing of note number and topic is correct?
Which source is cited for Trump’s 2016 election victory and emphasizes “volatility and a common touch”?
Select all statements that correctly describe sources in Notes 87–90 about NFTs, cryptomining, and speculative capitalism.
Select all correctly matched cultural or political controversy references from Notes 84–86.
True or false: Note 82 records Alain Badiou’s personal communication with the author and adds that the author would also call the Chinese-Russian axis a clique.
True or false: Note 76 cites Alenka Zupančič’s “Teorija zarote brez zarote,” which is associated with the idea of a conspiracy theory without conspiracy.
Note 91 cites Thom Dunn’s report that Peter Thiel claimed AI is “Leninist” and “literally ___.”
Briefly explain how the notes connect cinema references with broader interpretive debates, using Shadow of a Doubt, Everything Everywhere All At Once, and the prior section’s parallax concept as examples.
Briefly compare the political-populist references in these notes by mentioning Boric’s Chilean election, Trump’s 2016 victory, and the prior section’s Orbán-Zelensky controversy.
Which pairing best illustrates how film references in the notes are used as objects of interpretation rather than merely as plot summaries?
Select all pairings that reasonably connect current knowledge points with prior knowledge points through a shared political or cultural theme.
The current note on Habermas and coronavirus nonknowledge can be conceptually connected to the prior parallax concept because both involve limits or shifts in perspective rather than a single simple viewpoint.
A current citation that treats NFTs and SPACs as examples of risky speculative capitalism can be integrated with the prior note on UK tax cuts and the 1972 dash for growth under the broad theme of ___.
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