Reading II. Sloterdijk, Biernacki, all on one wavelength 
In the second installment Reading suggest contempt of the masses Peter Sloterdijk. In this small dziełku our attention like a quotation borrowed from Andrzej Biernacki, or borrowed by Mr Andrew ( contempt was issued in Polish in 2003, and we do not know whether Mr Andrew previously also drawn attention to this phenomenon.) Sloterdijk argues that the 'managers, moderators and reviewers almost everywhere pierced to the fore at the expense of the developers and allow glorify themselves as true artists. "
Psychopaths encourage you to read below set out the entire last chapter Contempt of origin of the quote.
average may just be interested in our thoughts Sloterdijk synthesis. Contempt is an essay in philosophy of culture. Examines the mass as a phenomenon increasingly upodmiotawiające and gaining a greater influence on our culture. The author sees the mass, like Baudrillard, primarily as a collection of indistinguishable individuals, ie a set in which the divisions are not working class, ethnic, religious, virtually none. Weight is simply the weight.
Empowerment weight, her appointment to the sole sovereign, inevitably involves the elimination of disparities by Sloterdijk called vertical. In a nutshell: the differences consist of vertical on some form of "lepszości" and "worseness. Differences in horizontal rely on 'otherness' of equals. Eliminating these differences take place through the elimination of the divine element, examples of which are well known. The French Revolution was a revolution, secularism, and revolution against the aristocracy. Aristocracy, and above all, the king, represented the divine element, which is istotową "superiority" of some of the others. Superiority was not a result of some merit, and 'only' birth, the blood. So there was a grace of God - inexplicable, incomprehensible and irrevocable.
so it was obvious that a revolution of equality must be understood so as to get rid of the most important symbol of the difference, that the king what happened. According to Sloterdijk replace artists 'managers, moderators and reviewers' is a continuation of the same process. Artist having talent and ability not available to others, is the embodiment of that principle inexplicable and unconditional grace. Sure, you can discuss how important is the work and effort of the author, and how that talent, a gift. But the very existence of something niesprowadzalnego the effort, work, social capital, various external circumstances, it is difficult if not impossible to challenge. Therefore diminish the role of artists and replaces those whose characteristics are a product of society, or weight. This is how society produces a more well-read individual, with the "refined" taste, Bourdieu showed in the refinement .
Contempt masses
Chapter V
Identity, by weight: indifference
vengeance of history is upon us egalitarystach that also we have to make their experience under duress to distinguish. This compulsion is inseparable from political and anthropological lesson of modern humans living in the area's diverse inequality. As shown, after the revolution constructivist any discovered differences are to be transformed into manufactured. The old differences, which are subordinated to, a new resolve that we produce ourselves to revise them if necessary.
Project upodmiotowiania mass reaches a critical stage, when we express the principle that any distinction should be carried out as an indistinguishable mass. It is itself understood that the weight does not przedsiębierze nor recognize any distinctions which lokowałyby it differentiates on the wrong side, if only it can do, always and without fear to your advantage. Disclaims any dictionaries and criteria, which use could come out of its limitations, denies the legitimacy of all language games, which does not win. Breaks every mirror that does not provide it, that is the most beautiful in the country. Its normal state is a state of permanent vote on the extension of a general strike against higher ambitions. In this sense, the project "Mass Culture" is a radically antynietzscheański Nietzschean way: his maxim that any revaluation of values \u200b\u200bas the transformation of all vertical difference in the horizontal.
And since, as we have seen, all differences are accepted on the ground of equality, thus predetermined differences, all the contemporary distinctions are made more or less threatening indifference. The cult of the difference in today's society, the wave of fashion is spreading to the philosophy, has a basis in fact that any difference in the horizontal rightly considered to be weak, revocable, constructed. By highlighting their strong attempts to deepen them, as if the differences concerned the right of survival of the fittest individuals. All these treatments are ineffective, however, because the excellent designers and obmyślacze differences never differentiate, but pathetic nierozróżnianie, namely the axiom of egalitarianism, which requires that any distinction came from mass, which by definition are undifferentiated for consists of uniform particles, which were allegedly inflicted similarly a difficult birth. Basis of classical philosophy, the principle of identity, as seen from this perspective, there is still intact and even has a higher effect than ever, only the name has changed and there is one more dimension to the secondary, the more negative, more reflexive. Where it was previously the identity, has come about indifference, read dyferentna indifference. Differential, which makes no difference, is the term used to denote a logical matter. Since then, the identity and indifference should be understood as synonyms.
once again be a mass is explained by considerations here: stand out so that it made no difference. Diversified indifference is the secret to a formal matter and its culture, that organizes the total measure. Therefore, the jargon may be different than the jargon oszlifowanego individualism. Since everything we do, to be others, in fact, does not mean anything, we do what we want. "In terms of uniformity of culture today is beating on the head of all" *. Just because we have over the past half century, transformed with the black color atomic molecular weight. Colorful mass is one that knows where you can go - to the threshold of vertical differentiation. Because the egalitarian space not objectively we constitute challenges to each other, while our attempts to make a interesting look at myself with more or less amusement or with more or less pogardliwością. Mass culture involves the failure of any deal is interesting, that is better than others. This makes it reasonably, because its dogma is that it can distinguish from each other only on the assumption that our differences do make a difference. Mass obligation.
simple guide to show why the present relies on indifference: if our differences were a source of transcendent, so we seen objectively and normatively indistinguishable by God or nature in the sense of the above-below, our differences would be for us down and we could only discover them, respect, analyze and survive, only Satanists long ago rebelled against the objective order of beings and degrees. Such thinking was the premise of the Middle Ages, the classical era of bourgeois AIW was still something almost natural. Society ontological state needed a justification for its hierarchy and divisions. But now, after the great exodus of equality and new forms of everything we want and need ahead of our differences, since they are fully formed, not EXISTING. The primacy of our existence to our properties and works of indifference sets the first and only principle of mass.
where the mass and the principle of indifference is a starting point, where the contemporary struggle for recognition of the same block, because in these circumstances, recognition may not have to mean high respect or honor, but the lack of a proper phrase profound respect or equal to Respect in neutral space, fair małoważności grant, which nobody denies. As long as you can, avoids admitting that equal respect and high esteem are mutually exclusive. Atmospheric data, however, speak for themselves: the universal struggle for recognition or even just a privileged place is born in vain efforts to banal sovereign who does not have to offer recognition of being something more than accidental applause That up-free specification for public opinion, which is called the universal and the We know now that it is an imaginary nieodróżnionych plenum. Who are the lucky in this forum, it may not be sure whether his success, measured by the old idea of \u200b\u200ba high measure of respect, is no more contemptible, than it would be any failure. In this situation, as Performed the role of criticism is carelessness. This criticism, sadly stuck in your game space, well and very well evaluate everything that is not committed to any particular success when trying to distinguish itself beneficial, but what is really special, distils the infallible instinct and condemnation of superiority or, rather, as the looks at something higher than the bottom, with an exaggerated servility.
Why can not it be otherwise, we understand the conditions for realizing discussed. When God was declared dead, and was considered the nature of the construct, dropped only force able to create instances of exceptions. God manifested themselves as exceptions to the grace of cases, exceptions to nature as monsters or genii. Who asks a tardy effort to review the treaties of the era of the Church Doctors of grace, there will support the thesis that the medieval statements about charisma, grace exceptions, present the most developed system ever obmyślono that mysteriously profound differences between humans reproduce the transcendent foundation. Rights were exceptional grace of God, who not only reigned but ruled it even minor details. Under these laws the differences between people - both removable as indelible are explained in the highest sphere, though dark conjectures as facts of life. Although all creatures together, and in this sense, appeared to be equal before God as created beings, saints heroes opened view of the impenetrable system of exceptions created by the highest authority. With grace and privilege darzenia receive it, God has rejected any expectation of equality in the social sense, and ordered the faithful live with the fact that the inequality in some unclear way you appear to a higher justice. Without this majestic mystery since the beginning of the Christian God would be only human dummy. The residue of the numinous can be felt even today in irrational moments of the art market, which is exorbitantly one up, while others precipitated into the night niesprzedawalności. The old order is considered the greatest talents of God officials, who were committed to their principals as faithful and effective administrators. They showed the people the convergence of care and grace. Medieval culture was multicharvzmatvczna as a contemporary multiroszczeniowa.
I would like to point out only one inevitable consequence of the weakness of contemporary differences. Also, modern society can not manage without the creation of all possible fields of scales of values, rank, hierarchy - as declared society can not compete otherwise. However, it must allocate places in accordance with egalitarystycznymi assumptions - assume that the competitors took off in the same conditions. It is to recognize that the difference between the victors and the vanquished in the markets and stadiums do not endorse nor raises any istotowej difference, but it is always the only variable ranking list.
gives itself felt here on a scale unprecedented act psychopolityczny history: an attempt, aiming to ensure that the restless, envious, driven ambitions of the masses, which constantly compete for highlighted items, to protect against rolling them in a threatening loss depression . Without regular treatments with the rotation of already classified upodmiotowionych society made up of masses rozpadłoby as a result of their endogenous tensions caused by envy. Rozleciałoby from the hatred of people for whom the procedure would fail civilizing, geared to the fact that classified defeated transformed into giving up classified loss. Therefore, in contemporary society sports, financial speculation, and finally, the art must become increasingly important controls, because the stadiums, the stock market and in the galleries of the competitors in the struggle for success and recognition largely classify themselves through their performance. Because such classifications are zróżnicowaniami, which shape influenced stakeholders themselves, they weaken the hatred, even if they do not bring reconciliation. Do not remove elemental jealousy, but give it the form in which the limits it can move. Legitimize criticism as a statement on lagging behind those on the front of this most inalienable social instance ventilation. The classification is informalizacji status and gives a vertical movement of the historical social systems. Replaces the old European thinking in terms of hierarchy in contemporary charts.
Nowhere is this more as desired, yet equally risky, as in the so-called cultural sector and its activities desirable, because in the current environment anything new in terms of art can ever count on a warm welcome by the parties concerned; dangerous, because more and more blurring of the criteria leading to the brink of nihilism, art, and the works themselves, which arise more and more abundance, more and more like the trash. In the contemporary art system as generally in an advanced democracy, the idea is to eliminate the legacy of the feudal sentimentality, especially prone to false humility and servitude, but, when this feeling vertical, the sense of top and bottom, the values \u200b\u200bwere greater and less in some informal field reclaimed discreetly and at a constant openness to new re-incarnated reliably. Assessments of the value of something artistically outstanding and worthy of attention in a democratic situation inevitably takes place in a manner which does not allow for challenge on opinion and objectification, even if in these cases have lost a sense of tact, discrimination and receive the value would be diluted.
From this perspective, "the project of modernity", rightly or wrongly so named, with clarity ever be the most admirable projects that can be watched in history. It is also because that democracy in exceptionally challenging way appeals to discretion of its members to secrecy in a double sense: as a strength and a sense of distinguishing the bar, as a sense of the unwritten relationships and ranks as the respect for the informal orders things more or less consistently good addressing the needs and habits of equality comparison.
return to the informal sphere contains all of the adventure of culture in the contemporary world. World DECIDED feudal and the world could the majority of these and other matters regulated by plumes, crests, practices, issues and priority ranks were fully visualized and publicly identified. In democracy culture alive invisible heraldry. Implies readiness for voluntary recognition citoyens higher capacity, and persist in a happy attempt effort. But whatever becomes today "deserved" in the field of culture can not count on there are no objective security or welfare, which provide assurance of protection against overvaluation, inflation and counterfeiting. And the most important with living artists nothing could be officially complain about the society of which would think that does not do justice to their achievements. Continue to rely on the fact that the informal system of secrecy that shaped by decades of patience and constant tension artistic niveau knowledge and sense of nuance to live again embodies a wide range of new players in game culture, what kind are to come.
recently but, as mentioned, on the ground deeper causes of the disturbing way in this field comes nietaktu, lapses, ruthlessness, pomposity. I wished to emphasize his polemic against the "symptom of Munich in February 1999" ** in conjunction with a specific issue. If it was just a simple dialectic of generations and the effects of the gap, characteristic of debuting talents, there would be nothing to talk about. The rate however is not concerned so much with art as such and its conflict-driven dynamics of rejuvenation, but new forms of practicing it, use and management. They want all now act as a master and no longer serve - Leporello in the public service, irrespective of whether they are cultural referentami , or exercise other agencies. Managers, moderators and reviewers almost everywhere pierced to the fore at the expense of the developers and allow glorify themselves as true artists.
I see this all the signs of growing hatred towards strengthening the exception, which would constitute an exception even in the old sense, traces of ferocity against what can never be replaced and that is why people try to replace as quickly and unworthy as possible because the only thing the replacement meets the standard indifference, moreover, in that it traces predicament of despair, which appears in the face of everything that reminds lost kingdom of grace. Perhaps we should, even if it is not appropriate to say once again: the world at the mercy of art was a refuge exceptions. She was part of the evening sky, which sometimes dancing star was rising. In light of this analysis should not be surprising that strongly addressed in the future unity of culture, able to recognize differences only on the background nieodróżnialności, prepare now for the next attack during the final open-ended campaign against it, as extraordinary.
Ladies and gentlemen, Emil Cioran titled volume of essays on ancient and early twentieth-century authors words Exercises d'Admiration. I must admit that I know nothing expressions that function better wyraziłoby employee culture in modern times than this brief, modest, intelligent formula. Exercises actually enjoy, in whatever culture is such that I feel I understand the efforts to ensure that as far as taking on the admirable things, do not completely lose the highlands. Admiration for the subject gives the talent seekers, who can not be compared. This admiration is a voluntary suffering because of works, which we could not establish themselves, even though we had thirty-six lives. Opens for lighting incomparably greater difference. With all this is the opposite of that criticism, which is concentrated in the middle of a totalitarian and praises only what it resembles. In any case, the term Cioran need to extend the phrase "exercise of provocation." Only by the challenge of this opportunity to arise, to prevent further sinking.
Culture in the normative sense that more than ever it is essential to recall includes attempts to challenge the essence of matter in us that voted against him. Addressed is the difference for the better, which, as any relevant when a distinction exists only if, and only as long as it is doing.
* Theodor W. Adorno, Dialectic of Enlightenment , ed. M. Lukasiewicz, Warsaw 1995, p. 139
** "Siiddeutsche Zeitung, 15 February 1999.
