comfort

[luka]

i associate too much comfort with fat around the middle, mental lassitude, idleness, sluggish metabolism etc. on some level i do find it disgusting and contemptible. have another mr kipling, ooh no, i mustnt, ooh go on be naughty, ooh alright then, just one more fondant fancy, the pink one,

 

[woops]

i associate too much comfort with fat around the middle, mental lassitude, idleness, sluggish metabolism etc. on some level i do find it disgusting and contemptible. have another mr kipling, ooh no, i mustnt, ooh go on be naughty, ooh alright then, just one more fondant fancy, the pink one,

protestant genes. the key words here are "too much". i agree there's something disgusting about indulging yourself doesn't stop me drinking ten pints but that has its own built in punishment right around the corner. sometimes i'll do something i don't feel like doing out of some notion of penance for doing something i felt a bit too much like doing

 

[woops]

but it's better to strike a balance

 

[woops]

i had a nice cold shower today then i went to sit in the cold to make up for yesterdays self-indulgence.

oh yeah this kind of thing in fact

 

[version]

 

[linebaugh]

Comfort is also a more embarrassing 'meme' of the times. 'Oh I cant adulting today I just want to stay in bed with my cats.' And netflix binging and 'ghosting' and, not to say its always the case, but much talk on anxiety is less about mental illness and more about staying comftorable in your home with its endless entertainemnt options

 

[linebaugh]

We clearly don't want total comfort as most of us on here seem to balk at the loss of friction that accompanies dematerialisation; same with the threads on drinking 'til unconsciousness.

And our flagship enemies of dissensus thread

 

[woops]

Comfort is also a more embarrassing 'meme' of the times. 'Oh I cant adulting today I just want to stay in bed with my cats.' And netflix binging and 'ghosting' and, not to say its always the case, but much talk on anxiety is less about mental illness and more about staying comftorable in your home with its endless entertainemnt options

@Corpsey

 

[linebaugh]

Thinking about it its quite easy to get worked up and say I HATE comfort but I think thats the same impulse that elected hitler

 

[luka]

Thinking about it its quite easy to get worked up and say I HATE comfort but I think thats the same impulse that elected hitler

That's why I said it in the most Hitlerian way I could muster

 

[version]

Comfort is also a more embarrassing 'meme' of the times. 'Oh I cant adulting today I just want to stay in bed with my cats.' And netflix binging and 'ghosting' and, not to say its always the case, but much talk on anxiety is less about mental illness and more about staying comftorable in your home with its endless entertainemnt options

That appears to be the ideal neoliberal subject these days. A person who demands a world as curated as their timeline.

 

[version]

Christopher Lasch's Angry Ghost has been writing about this combination of poptimism, identity politics, neoliberalism, Virilio's synchronisation of emotion and other things for a while; how it's all combined into this frictionless world where discomfort's intolerable, e.g. fandoms.

 

[mixed_biscuits]

Night time is when you use what you have learnt during the day to focus on generating some quantum of warmth under a thin summer duvet in a bone cold bedroom.

It turns out the moths don't like it either.

 

[mixed_biscuits]

By making the home inhospitable, the world becomes the home - and that's a big win.

 

[version]

Christopher Lasch's Angry Ghost has been writing about this combination of poptimism, identity politics, neoliberalism, Virilio's synchronisation of emotion and other things for a while; how it's all combined into this frictionless world where discomfort's intolerable, e.g. fandoms.

It isn't applicable to the world at large, but it seems to hold true for the people who spend a lot of time in certain areas of the internet. It's the same impulse I talked about in 'The Darkest Timeline', the desire to escape to a place where the things and people you don't like simply don't exist and can no longer intrude.

 

[WashYourHands]

A cold home is a content home, a warm home is grotesquely clammy and suffocating. Reminds me of school. Muggy classrooms full of snot

If you ever invite me round your gaff and I have to wipe my brow from clammy environs, I’ll be forced to leave immediately

Having said that, after a long night shift during winter, hitting the sack and cuddling up to other half is the epitome of heaven. It borders on temporary hibernation

 

[version]

It isn't applicable to the world at large, but it seems to hold true for the people who spend a lot of time in certain areas of the internet. It's the same impulse I talked about in 'The Darkest Timeline', the desire to escape to a place where the things and people you don't like simply don't exist and can no longer intrude.

Linebaugh's hero, Byung-Chul Han, talks about this stuff in terms of the disappearance of the other. It's the same idea as in that Melville excerpt on the first page about only truly feeling warmth if some part of you feels cold. The opposition is crucial.

 

[version]

although it does feel wrong, the fact that our basic state is not feeling great all day and happy to be alive

This is one of the drivers of medicalisation. The sense that if you don't feel good all the time then there must be something medically wrong with you. That it isn't normal to feel any sort of discomfort.

 

[linebaugh]

 

[linebaugh]

Linebaugh's hero, Byung-Chul Han, talks about this stuff in terms of the disappearance of the other. It's the same idea as in that Melville excerpt on the first page about only truly feeling warmth if some part of you feels cold. The opposition is crucial.

Baudrillard talks about it the same way. says that the complete aversion to the other causes cultural production to mimic metastatic cancer.