The collective’s dream consciousness is already doing what modern art consciously theorizes.
Evidence
When Benjamin mentioned the dream consciousness of the collective, this implied an appreciation for the masses, among whom events were unnoticeably taking place of which only a fraction would become more or less conscious among artists, philosophers and theoreticians. When he spoke of the streets as being the dwelling-place of the collective, he was admitting that the masses were unconsciously practicing what he welcomed in the new architects as a fusion between street and dwelling. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 226
Categorization
- DEEPTHINKING: Reverses the usual hierarchy of theorist over masses: unconscious collective practice precedes and models avant-garde intention.
- XREF: connects to: Benjamin saw the masses as perceiving reproducible art through a dream-like consciousness — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 850; Modernist writers and artists modeled creative work on machine rationality. — David Harvey, The Condition of Postmodernity: An…, 240; Capitalist realism operates like a dream sustained by our own desires — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished…, 1797 (+1 more)
- yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Benjamin saw the masses as perceiving reproducible art through a dream-like consciousness — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 850; Modernist writers and artists modeled creative work on machine rationality. — David Harvey, The Condition of Postmodernity: An…, 240; Capitalist realism operates like a dream sustained by our own desires — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished…, 1797 (+1 more)
Broader Connections
- Capitalist realism operates like a dream sustained by our own desires
#complicates(0.78) — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 1797 - Modernist writers and artists modeled creative work on machine rationality.
#complicates(0.75) — David Harvey, The Condition of Postmodernity, 240