Rick Roderick on Philosophy and Postmodern Culture [full length]
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- čas přidán 24. 08. 2012
- This video is 8th in the 8-part lecture series Philosophy and Human Values (1990).
Thanks to rickroderick.org for making this available. I'm merely interested in redistributing to anyone who might enjoy and benefit.
I. A recap of the lecture series:
A. Retrace the history of the accounts of human values given in Western Philosophy, and you'll probably find a dead end with some rather ordinary philosophic problems.
B. Hegel reminds us that human values and moral and ethical problems arise in historical circumstances.
C. Society and history has to do with economics and the state.
D. Culture is less systematic. A culture based on spectacle and images has a peculiar nonsystematic character.
II. Freud outlines the process of economic building with cultural unawareness.
. The conscious mind is a very small part of our psychic life.
A. Freud's goal was for the unconscious (id) to become the conscious (ego).
B. Mass culture turns the conscious to unconscious.
C. We can tune out the culture, however, we cannot destroy it.
III. Civilisation can be seen as a drama between eros (love) and thanatos (death).
A. The mechanism of one side has clearly gained the upper hand (thanatos).
1. However, eternal eros might come in and strike a blow for the other side.
2. This is about to be a global situation that will be difficult to solve because there are no concrete walls.
B. We must reinject resistance into or at least put up a simulation of resistance to it.
1. The worst thing we can do is to be unanimously for something.
2. We have not yet written the last obituary for radical democracy.
C. St. Paul's answer is in Corinthians. It is a masterpiece of sophistry, rhetoric and bitter invective.
D. Philosophy is disconsolate in principle.
1. Hegel said dialectics or philosophy does not run from detestation but tarries with it awhile and looks it in its face.
2. The structural principles of our society are as barbaric in their structure as they ever were, perhaps more so.
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“If the project of philosophical thinking is to create a human life that is free it becomes crucially important if the culture itself is beginning to destroy, deconstruct, or disrupt the very conditions for being human at all. It becomes pointless to talk about free humans in the absence of humans.”
20:12
But Mr. Roderick , YOU are the familiar show I love to come home from work and watch!!!!!!!!
I can't thank you enough for uploading these series of lectures. Rick's lectures have been like therapy, and introduced me to so many good texts. Many thanks!
Ditto.
was russel crowe always this deep?
Are you not entertained?
pretty sure he's mark hammil
No it’s definitely West Texas Zizek
@@nightoftheworld exactly.
@@moodist1er He's a fool, he has to laugh at himself, because he knows he's an idiot, and will remain so for ever.
Amazing lectures. Probably the best among the 3 that Mr Roderick gave. Thank you for uploading these.
I like watching this because I it makes me think that may be I am not mad.
your doubting tho... you still crazy
when you are self-moved entirely, you will not suffer.
read A Course In Miracles. the only text anyone needs.
Jorgeruiz I do the exact same thing. You might also like Schopenhauer's "
Studies in Pessimism"
No, the world is mad. Mad, mad, mad.
Just imagine if this guy was as popular as Jordan Peterson.
Not possible. He doesnt create pseudo events of combat against leftist and doesnt pander to MGTOW neck beard idiot incels
@@MGSVxBreakpoint yep.
He's just a professor, describing major prophets. I doubt he did much research
That would be nice, because then people would listen to someone who actually knows about postmodernism instead of someone who consistently misrepresents it for his own agenda.
Don’t make this about him.
This might be my favorite lecture by Rick Roderick.
john miller wait it out. We are morphing to good. Sheldrake agrees, or will.
@@mytechpeople Rupert Sheldrake?
Makes so much sense, ties together disparate, difficult to articulate understanding, philosophies & Westetn cultural presumptions few mortals have time or energy to investigate. Thank you for sharing this wonderful experience.
What a great talk! RIP to a great American teacher…
Like Nietzsche, Dostoyevsky and Jung this man appears prophetic because he was able to see where our society and culture was heading.
Read more bruh. Try again. Roderick was reiterating the philosophies of Freud, Marx, Baudrillard , and probably some Jameson or a lil Deleuze. There were NO original thoughts here, especially no original thoughts on postmodernism - so your attempt to even compare those thinkers mentioned above to a philosophy professor is pretty bleak.
@@Maziedivision Messengers are as important as the messages itself
@@Maziedivision he is just a professor of philosophy.
Wealthy white men of leisure to wrire reflectively. Humans don't live long enough to gain wisdom of judgement or recognize failures of systems & conditions they help create, especially now that all behavior and motives are purely economic worship -- material consumption is culture and Nature is contrived phenomenon. Economy & profit vs, environment. Maybe weapons of mass destruction before environmental collapse fails to support life. We're the last generation ...
Yeah dude he’s much more in the tradition of Marx, Nietzsche and Baudrillard or Debord. A kind of Marxian postmodern tradition if that synthesis can truly be achieved.
I keep coming back to this lecture.
I love Professor Rick Roderick. I have all his lectures too on Philosophy. I am so glad others still get his lectures . A remarkable teacher. ❤️ Although, I loved Carl Yung the best, The shadow, the conscious and the unconscious. Anyone has has looked at Freud and Jung, they had many differences. ❤️This is one of Professor Roderick 's best lectures. World histories are important also not just America's, although one needs to understands all sides there also, but as it is today we are 33RD in the world with public education, student debt, masses are traumatized. Both sides Republicans and Democrats, plus Libertarians have benn corrupted. Consumerism has taken over. Go shopping. What?WE are in a mess in 2022.
19:00 this man was ahead of his time with social media, augmented reality and the metaverse
I can't believe how few people have discovered philosophy and instead consume mainstream culture.
It’s easy most people are not very smart.
Thank the super-class globalist reptoids that own this earth.
Why not both
@@ianbatchelor2916 What mainstream culture are you referring to ?
Those invisible chains and walls which prey on our fears, desires and psychological weaknesses are the most difficult to overcome.
Thank you for uploading these. I wouldn't of found them otherwise
Why the hell hasn’t Jordan Peterson seen these???
It wouldn’t matter, anyway, as the realities of PoMo, let alone Marxism, critical theory, and feminism, don’t fit into his narrative... It’s economically expedient for him to not see Rick’s lectures, or understand the philosophical concepts of which he speaks..
Jordan is a dumb dumb. He wouldn't care. The fact that he's considered the leading intellectual of our world today says something very horrifying about our culture. It proves that Rick Roderick was unfortunately right. The fact that fucking christian conservatism is considered revolutionary now by vast amounts of people makes me almost weep. Our culture is so meaningless that this manipulator snake oil salesman can come along and sell his boring old banalities and social darwinism as the "truth" and as revolutionary is truly terrifying to me. Like the weeping professor idiot J.B.P. would himself say: "it's so sad."
The people to whom he is pandering aren't interested
Because even is he has, it wouldn't fit his business model. Peterson is just another money grabbing opportunist who knows how to exploit his market ... The intriguing thing is that viewing him in THAT context, there's nothing really all that novel about him at all ... Try this as fun project ... Put some of his catch phrases into your favourite fast food adds and see how it plays out haha :P ...
He clearly hasn’t even read any postmodern authors from the way he talks about them. He made a career out of criticizing Marxists and we found out in his last debate that he’s never read any Marxist theory.
I love this guy
28:40 “In our culture struggles will have to become more sophisticated-instead of fighting Bush maybe the best way to fight him is to agree with him.”
Zizek’s method of _over-identification_ as low-key weapon of political dissent as a youth in communist Yugoslavia.
22:30
In 1990 Roderick predicts “ fake news “
Re-watching this lecture today. Gotta love the material of Rick Roderick.
Our structural principles of our society are as barbaric in their structure as they ever were.
So brilliant. I think of the Victorians in their empire, but I guess I live in my own Pax Americana.
It sad to watch this here in Poland in 2020... 25:16
Rick, Rick, Rick..., if ever there was a Soul who I'd want as a father or child.., "you" would be "it!"
Terrific lectures, although the implications of this one are truly frightening.
Awesome, thanks for posting. 👌🏻
When we have movies of villains and superheroes who needs to actually be a hero in the real world. There's no need for real change or revolution when we can be revolutionary in our fantasies. We can experience the feeling of freedom and personal autonomy vicariously by watching Star Wars or a Marvel Super hero movie.
We are in the ecstasy of communication. At least the WWII era had a spectacle to observe to give them hope. We have nothing.
Powerful and immensely profound.
Goes beast in this one.
I'm enjoying the lectures thanks for sharing.
8:13 *the identity trap* “Mass culture is enlightenment in reverse gear.” 12:43 “This city probably has (this city we’re in) you know 10 billion tons of paper on which are printed billions and billions and billions of words _perfectly_ analogous to Freud’s unconscious. No one’s going to dig most of them up, most of them have no meaning to anyone. The goal of mass culture is to make sure that the narratives of our lives fit somewhere in those documents-just as fileable, malleable, trainable as possible.”
Scary as fuck ..
The point around 15:00 about implanted consciousness being experienced as if it were self-generated or real consciousness is both very important and intuitive. After all, with our current biology the only possible way an implanted consciousness could be experienced is through self-consciousness; it's the only medium that we can experience anything through. This phenomenon can be used as a gauge to measure the degree of control that a particular ideology has over self-consciousness. It can be used to explain and further develop the Marxist concept of "false consciousness", when the particular interests of a class are obscured to the members of that class through an adaptation in ideology. Class consciousness develops from self-consciousness as individuals identify their objective social interests as proletarians or capitalists. False consciousness prevents self-consciousness from reaching its logical result, which is the development of class consciousness and a class identity. False consciousness is constructed by the reification of the economic categories of the capitalist mode of production, and the identification of the self with those categories. This can stifle, somewhat, the struggle between classes, which occurs due to the conflicting objective interests of each social class. False consciousness is therefore highly political in nature, because it directly benefits a particular social class, the capitalist class.
False consciousness is limited in that it explains only the intelligible social relations of production. Those relations still structure our thinking, but in many respects, they have do-cohered and metamorphosed to the point that describing their precise influence on mass consciousness is no longer possible. To explain the source and content false consciousness, it isn't sufficient to point to the fetishism of commodities, or the phenomenon of interpreting social relations as relations between things. Capitalist false consciousness is no longer constricted to the domain of production, it has dominated all other aspects of self-consciousness. So, the traditional Marxist explanation that focuses on commodity production and all of its associated social relations, is not completely explanatory. I don't think it's meant to be completely explanatory, since every mode of production has a transformative effect on all of self-consciousness, but regardless the Marxist explanation has become less politically useful as the capitalist false consciousness develops. Interventions like Rick's in this video are very useful for finding which other control mechanisms to analyze.
Prophetic. Amen Brother.
i had a moment of synchronicity where i watched these lectures years ago and ended up working with ricks son max on an art website years later.
8:15 "mass culture is enlightment in reverse gear" ... well said!
"The fires of Belsen burn in the TV tubes every night." I'll be meditating on that for a while.
It made my hair stand on end
@@chaseharrison2064 Now you've got me watching these lectures again. Thanks!
@@OneMinuteMedSchool You're welcome!
The genocide of the real; the replacement of reality by an image, man by machine.
The fires of Belsen.
I'm always looking for new interesting lectures on Psychology/Philosophy, please let me know if you guys have any recommendations, would be highly appreciated
Arthur F Holmes has a pretty good history of philosophy lecture series in full.
I find it really useful to get a little background on a philosopher before reading them properly, lecture series like that of Holmes' kind of let you know what you're in for.
Anything by this guy.
This lecture is particularly useful, the garrison metaphor, most people in plastic culture on auto pilot, money is God, GDP & consumption is meaning of life.
A beautiful lecture. Bravo!
3:29 (Ron Howard voice) “They did NOT cut that part”
He seems very resentful for a smart man.
I love Rick!!! he should be resurrected, cloned, multiplied. I downloaded everything available from him to preserve him forever. He deserves to be taught in Kindergarden and each school. Wonderful! An American Fossil! Extinct...
A small flickering ember in these lectures.
* Freudian psychoanalysis theory is not a science but a myth, but nonetheless a very interesting one.
*"There are walls you can build that cannot be seen between people".
* "Where is nature now? There isn't one".
* The history of humanity can be summarized as the contradiction between Eros and Thanatos, or Love and Death. Death is utterly dominating in our times. Forgetfulness and Death are closely related. ("Il y a eu de l'histoire, il n'y en a plus", Guy Debord)
* The machine will simulate the satisfaction of our every possible need. The only need that it wouldn't meet is to destroy itself.
* Television (& culture generally) wipes out the past by presenting a simple narrative of its development. It reduces the complexity of history and the importance of its stakes and recreates in hindsight instead a one-dimensional and fatalist story.
* Art in post-modern culture has become a commodity to be consumed. Its consumption out of context deprives it from its meaning and value. (The Doors as muzak, or Beethoven in the kitchen).
professor Rick could well see it coming. And it scared him.
someone should tell JBP that if you actually listen to a """post-modern neo-Marxist""" who speaks in plain english, it's just common sense
Are you saying that Post-Modernism makes sense??
I don't know who do you mean by JBP, but the irony of your statement is that in the postmodernist framework there is no such thing as common sense.
@@christinemurray1444 Jordan B Peterson
Absolutely unhinged
Rick Roderick is great, he really gets across a lot of pomo gibberish in a way that's actually digestible...
HE IS THE GREATEST PHILOSOPHER IN OUR TIME
Unfortunately we have lost, the plebeians have their bread and circuses and are in a near saturated and stupefied state. So prophetic.
i loooooove this shit
Habe Mut, dich deines eigenen Verstands zu bedienen! Kant
love the 'Big Man'. Listen to, Watch and learn from his lectures constantly. My #1 knowledge broker.
Q: how's the war going?
A: still winning!
theee dave33 Afghanistan, Iraq, Yemen, the empire coming to a state near you!
We are STILL still winning!
"WITCH HUNT"
Has this guy been watching Adam Curtis' film, "HyperNormalisation"?
And all our yesterdays have lighted fools to dusty death. Out, out brief candle. -WS
With all due respect, I believe it is perhaps more accurate to understand the Enlightenment itself as the precursor to mass culture and therefore a part of its ontology. To endeavour towards escaping mass culture in fact requires an understanding of the inadequacies in humanist thinking which enabled its very capture.
Cmaglim yes I think he misspoke or misrepresented his view here, I think he was using enlightenment at one point around 8mins to refer to the “enlightenment of the Id or subconscious”, and not in reference to The Enlightenment, which would in fact identity more with the structures that resulted from this “reversal of psychoanalysis” or “reversal of making the Id the Ego”.
king
Speaking of Freud and the unconscious, it's not by accident that we call it the "woke" revolution. Professor Roderick is smiling from above. The radical revolution he feared might not ever arrive has come.
You obviously not paying attention. The woke movement that's supported by corporations and the state itself...revolutions are not a bunch of clowns on the street with rainbow flags. Ideas are revolutions and if anything Crypto is the true and only revolution of the modern era normies can't comprehend it. The internet was the one before it. This will liquidate post modernism and conservativism like nothing before. It's as radical as Martin Luther and the printing press in the reformation that makes Marx's teachings something of childs play comparatively. Revolutions happen where folk are distracted by banal woke or conservative jargon. Pay attention because the real revolutions is ideas, as movements, political , and so forth are momentary but some ideas are eternal.
@@spritualelitist665 Oh, I am paying very close attention!
He was not talking about divide and rule identity politics. The OSS CIA backed Neo Marxism for obvious reasons.
@@casteretpollux And the obvious reasons are?
@@Thom3748 Because it is anti-Marxist. It's outlook is subjective idealist and anti-science and facilitates identity politics as a distraction from class conflict and the economic base. It also makes the left look ridiculous and irrelevant to workers.
"...the fires of Belsen burn in your T.V. tubes every night."
20.50 you can’t turn the tv off... these days no one can get away from their screens no matter where u are!
Interpassivity. Lots of examples of that in this lecture.
Do Wordsworth and the Romantics have an answer to this Need for Personal Enlightenment?
Who is Roderick rik?
Roderick talks, in another series, about John Baudrillard's thesis on the society of the spectacle and the disappearance of the real; he explains how the system from time to time needs to inject some reality in itself to keep the spectacle going (S.P and Colbert), Roderick's critique of mass culture is a vehicle to critique post-modern/neoliberal capitalism's use of mass culture and information technologies to keep its hegemony by subtly forcing the people to accept the status quo.
Jean
Joe Beau.
Post Modern Culture=47k views 700 reactions 46,300 meh
Mr.Garrison?
A great man. Of course, we mostly haven't heard of him. He had to smuggle references to Marx in and still got the sack. It's all here, or at least enough to be going on with.
Holy Shit!
The sincere things we share Vs the Prostitution of them. This reminds me Of the Song, "Running on Empty".
32:20 hmm same sort of statement made by Paul as Heidegger 'only god can save us now'
Interesting that this critique was given at least 10 years before the internet became mainstream. What he so despises - namely mass culture force- feeding individuals and obviating all but the last vestiges of personal autonomy and freedom - has been undergoing at least a partial reversal through the rise of the internet. The posting of this very video is an example. So the mass culture he rails against, is no longer propagated in a technologically unidirectional manner.
you are technically right that the internet is not unidirectional and controlled. But for the vast majority of people, internet use is like that of a mass culture, because things like Facebook, porn sites, video games, etc have made mass culture forces even more pervasive.
Jeff Gelman I guess i would sort of agree that the nature of the internet's impact, relative to his complaints, depends on which elements of the population we're talking about. And perhaps for the majority of people, the internet is mass culture through a different, and more pervasive, medium. But for a sizable and potentially influential population subset, this is not the case. See the blogosphere.
Yeah and then you look at vevo
+leeds48 All technology has good and bad sides. Television and radio helped bring degree level education to the masses through the Open University, for example, as well as giving us mind numbing soaps and game shows. The Internet too has its good points, but one downside is the belief common to many young people that they don't need to know much anymore because they can simply use Google to plug their ignorance.
i disagree, the internet has accelerated the spectacle imo
really interesting listening to him talk about "Consciousness" here around 10mins: personal consciousness, ego, and a wider mass cultural consciousness; the latter characterised by consumerism and a reversal as he puts it, of psychoanalysis, by its 'attack' on the personal individual ego. Everyday I see on my IG, FB feeds, sponsored links to 'Consciousness' events, workshops, shamanism and so on. To what extent 'these' themselves.. have been absorbed into, and then operating within the mass consciousness, I guess we will never know.
Best modern teacher
19:40
Silent Philosophy, what is he not saying to prevent his audience from walking out? This will get to the truth. Is he after truth or something else?
Evil contains the seed of its demise. Consciousness cannot be repressed.
Ahhhhhh, but what if it's true!!! i.e. Pascal 32:00
And now we have the metaverse …
Sounds like a good old George Garlin.
Criticism of mass culture has become so popular it's become the mass culture (South Park, Colbert/Stewart, internet culture in general, etc.)
So what now, Rick? WHAT NOW?!
Roy Khater FYI: Your reply is visible.
We escape to Mars in a rocket and let the rest of society collapse under it's own cynicism.....
I'll admit it's not the *best* plan, but hey!
nothing, he's dead.
Maybe he'd say it's an inevitable reaction to the loss of meaning? The dialectical growth processes toward the discovery of intrinsic value on cultural scales? It is true, "only god can save us now."
As long as "the Other" doesn't know, should be ok.
This is very true for gay culture. We are getting assimilated to the point of disappearance.
"We have to remember we are talking at a historical moment when most folks wanna nuke somebody. And again: Why not?" Rick Roderick
🤣 so true
Thank you Ayn Rand.
10:00 The Facebook.
Mao ahicchifre mensange tout piej seul cruxmal.
Interesting to think what Rick would have made of George W Bush.
Demoin par cecill crux. Cul du lac sircum du loi. Laila heir paix. Enter media. Cultlaila. Ici royaum bas quepied crux. Enter media. Ciltlaila. Cultcourse. Culture. Paritgrad pied. Sosivironmentoie . Talitie alitie naissanse pied pettagree chamre echane. Enter media.
Now we have empty people with big muscles covered in tattoos pretending to be characters from computer games or movies..who themselves are playing characters who may have been genuinely tough... or not.
To be honest mixture of JP and Zizek fanbase (not real readers but those who are always on them) is making all philosophical content unbearable.
It is not about Zizek himself but those who everywhere comment about him. Big love to those who read postmodern philosophers, Lacanian psychoanalysts, critical theory and do not write all the time about only one person.
The worse thing good men can do is to drop out, and let bad men fill in the Vacuum.
The comments below illustrate the infinite SPIN of modern information. You all have your own "take," or view or outlook based on predetermined cherry picked "facts," that conform to your own initial background assumptions. That's okay. So do I. The harm comes from being ignorant of this and buying the baloney sandwich you and others in the herd who agree with you now gobble down as objective truth. Truth is found in how you relate to others in a reality where fear is worshipped and love and courage and individual autonomy are disregarded and trashed....just like the MASS culture Mr. Roderick abhorred.
It’s great to see his POV back then and compare to where we are now. Bush & Regan compared to Covid & Biden 😂
The goal of 'postmodernism' is to do away with any and all traditional western values and replace them with leftist political directives.
Hot take right here
Did you even listen to the lecture? Postmodernism is the RESULT of "Western culture" proliferating across the globe. If you don't like it, blame the powers that actually crafted it. Don't shoot the messenger. All he's doing is describing it.
@@alynames7171 "Postmodernism is the RESULT of "Western culture" proliferating across the globe."
Prove it. With Data. Go.
@@zeenuf00 Do yours first.
@@zeenuf00 The snake ate its own tail.
Is France not considered 'the West' anymore?
Does Capitalism not constantly require expanding markets for infinite exponential growth and therefore morph into a type of Neo-Colonialism?
Btw as for me personally I'm neither Left nor Right so don't mind me.
This series of lectures would have been better if Rick wasn't such a malcontent!
Idk man, think you have to be a bit soft in the head not to be a malcontent.
But that's exactly what makes his lectures so compelling!
I don’t understand this comment at all.. How would the lecture series be better if he weren’t a malcontent? I guess the commenter didn’t like that Rick injected his perspective into it, or thought his perspective would have better suited the subject matter if he was more sympathetic to the neoliberal and postmodern? I don’t know, but I’d like to actually know how or why the lectures would be improved.
Nothing wrong with the series. Holy heck! 😂
Sorry but somewhat pedestrian and common. Just that same ol chick little mentality.
You clearly misunderstood the man. For shame!
his hypothesis is that we are slaves to a system of television-watching. but he assumes everyone is a lazy robot with no free will. sounds like the typical Democrat that is crying when the other side's President won
That's what you took away from a lecture that was made in 1990?
We are both influenced and influencing the cultural substrata that we are "slaves" to. Reality lies in the processes, not in the side of static coin, frozen in time. The reality is that nothing in reality is independent of its context, but we see the world as static objects, dualistically. This will change. The change will hurt. You are proving his point, but you don't know. What you say and do matters, stop being your master's puppet, for my son's sake, as much as yours.
LOFL!!!😂 People have been talking about this phenomenon for decades now. You wanna shoehorn your opinions and rants into a divisive narrative by criticizing this? What a shallow take: try thinking harder next time…😢
Civilisation has been going down hill mostly since 5000 years, pure religion and follow of God's instructions perverted and disregarded. Consciousness is bound with moral, duty, reason for it all. Atheism not other nonesense and madness. matter is energy needed to vibrate at a magic level.