Jean-Paul Sartre

philosopher · 7 mentions across 3 readings

In this course

Sartre appears in this course primarily through his concept of "bad faith"—the philosophical notion that people knowingly deceive themselves about their freedom and responsibility—which the readings repurpose to diagnose contemporary online performance and trolling. The course uses Sartre's framework to analyze how internet cultures weaponize ambiguity and meta-positioning, where users claim plausible deniability for hostile acts by framing them as jokes or language-games. However, the readings also suggest that Sartre's framework may be becoming inadequate for understanding these dynamics, questioning whether mid-century existentialism still captures how modern subjects evade accountability through networked performance.

Mentioned in 3 readings

Adam Elkus

Speedrunning Through The Language-Game

Speedrunning Through The Language-Game “Oh I was just PostShitting for laughs” EXactly. And that is why U forever languish in obscurity while i engage brands U could only dream of dril Picture this. You are scrolling through your feed on…in which no one asks these kinds of questions. When regular people suddenly ask others to explain the performances they are far less accommodating to subcultural niches and their particular rhetorical tropes. And they attempt to force a cle…I am struck throughout this chapter by the observation of how rare any sincere and honest articulations of views were and how common duplicity, bad faith, language-game playing, and meta-positioning were. The intellectuals she describes sou…

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Mark Fisher

SF Capital

Cash is depotentiated capital: an enterprise cannot realise its capital, only a 'private' individual can, but this is effectively a translation from one kind of currency (fluid finance capital) to another (purchasing capital). In the proces…

Tiqqun

The Cybernetic Hypothesis (2001)

As an ethical position, the cybernetic hypothesis is the complement, however strictly opposed to it, of the humanist pathos that has been back in vogue since the 1940s and which is nothing more than an attempt to act as if "Man" could still…

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Fredric Jameson 1 Gilles Deleuze 1 Jean Baudrillard 1 Mark Miller 1 Michel Foucault 1 Stanley Kubrick 1 William S. Burroughs 1 Brett Fujioka 1 Walt Whitman 1 Dr. Dave Bowman 1