ASTU 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Torpor, Fredric Jameson
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Last class we introduced stuckness as savage torpor: Last class talked about the romantic globalism. Where the uniformity of their occupations produces a craving for extraordinary incident, which the rapid communication of intelligence hourly gratifies -> media. Torpor = inertia, absence or suspension of motive power, actively or feeling, not to move at all, state of profound innervation, lateral state, physical immobility, lack of mobility. What is the difference between television and social media: television controlled by someone else. Cools you down takes your affective energy. Internet controlled by anyone illusion of active consumption. Savage torpor experience subconscious resistance to activity , evacuate thought from sensation last class we introduced the idea of romantic globalism as a (cid:862)high stakes ter(cid:373)(cid:863) that (cid:374)a(cid:373)es different kinds of sig patterns in romantic texts. Romantic texts can signal globalism (obvious) through their content: ex. Or (less obviously) through their content: ex.
