Mass production has invaded private mental space through immediate mimesis
Evidence
Today this private space has been invaded and whittled down by technological reality. Mass production and mass distribution claim the entire individual, and industrial psychology has long since ceased to be confined to the factory. The manifold processes of introjection seem to be ossified in almost mechanical reactions. The result is, not adjustment but mimesis: an immediate identification of the individual with his society and, through it, with the society as a whole. — Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man, 128
Categorization
- DEFINE: Introduces the mimesis-vs-adjustment distinction at the heart of one-dimensionality.
- XREF: Mirrors modern critique that social media is not merely ‘influencing’ but absorbing the self’s inner dimension; connects to attention-economy debates. — connects to: Production-process forms increasingly colonize private leisure time; Market penetration shifted emotional investment into the private sphere; Commodity fetishism in mass production dictates conventional human behavior — Theodor W. Adorno, Max Horkheimer, Dialectic of Enlightenment, 46 (+7 more)
Broader Connections
- The inner self is colonized by capitalist productivity norms
#corroborates(0.90) — Jenny Odell, How to Do Nothing, 82 - Production regulates mental consumption as it does material consumption.
#corroborates(0.90) — Theodor W. Adorno, The Culture Industry, 267 - Production-process forms increasingly colonize private leisure time
#corroborates(0.85) - The internal psychological space has been fully penetrated by the media landscape
#expands(0.85) — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 880 - Market penetration shifted emotional investment into the private sphere
#corroborates(0.80) - Exploited consciousness becomes accomplice to its own subjection through passive interiority
#expands(0.80) — Fredric Jameson, Marxism and Form, 572 - Commodity fetishism in mass production dictates conventional human behavior
#corroborates(0.78) — Theodor W. Adorno, Max Horkheimer, Dialectic of Enlightenment, 46 - Social context becomes internalised and shapes desires.
#corroborates(0.75) — Yael Arbell, The Circle of Commoning, 50 - Social precepts can become interiorized until external compulsion becomes unnecessary
#corroborates(0.72) — Georg Simmel, The Sociology of Georg Simmel, 6435 - Immediacy as cultural style derives from space-time compression in capitalism.
#expands(0.70) — Anna Kornbluh, Immediacy, or The Style of Too Late…, 60