Open Media Theories 

As a layman with no education but a passion for philosophy and critical thinking, I really want to thank you for your channel. You explain things in such a manner so easy to understand.

I'm really enjoying this series. Thank you for taking the time to produce and upload these videos :) Looking forward to the next one in the series!

Great video as always. Can't wait for the next one. Your show has really helped me realize so much stuff about culture and humanity

I've been reading Byung chul Han recently and I feel like some of his ideas could also be addressed in this series. Thank you a lot for these videos!

I think it would be awesome if Professor Moeller posted readings in the description so that we can dive deeper into these topics.

Great video. An angle I think is important that isn't mentioned here. These techno-optimist views of/from the left are arguably a rationalisation for the destruction of any real left movement that can push for change It was comforting, perhaps even necessary, to go through a post-defeat phase of suggesting that the intensifying culture industry was actually a secret path to freedom.

Well we have the interconnected network they were dreaming of so much for so many decades now. And suffice to say it doesn't seem to have gone anything like the how they hoped it would. Tbf the early internet pioneers who made it had similar dreams, and they've been wrong too. I think the recent development in the Twitter saga is an enlightening case in point. With Twitter going haywire a load of alternate mostly more ethical alternatives, like Mastodon, thought they had a chance. But nope, they barely made a dent. Instead who swoops in to forge a new 100M userbase alternative to Twitter? None other than big business mogul Mark Zuckerberg, with his Threads. Yes a lot of them simply used their Instagram accounts to do it, but the fact remains that even when a big capitalist flounders the open alternatives struggle to reach people. And ironically it seems Zuckerberg even wants to weaponize one of their ideas - ActivityPub - to further his corporate monopolist takeover.

I've been reading so much on propaganda and I have to say it feels like everything is drowning in shadowy persuasion on one hand, and farcical persuasion on the other. It makes one wonder where does sincere communication thrive online? Is there such a thing?

That was fantastic. Thank you.

Ideally you have some hybrid model of bottom-up organized media and top-down organized media, where the top-down organized media cannot dominate the other forms because of the surrounding political structures (like idk, the organizations put in place by the absolute rule of some philosopher-king).

As usual, a limpid trip; your discourse makes me more intelligent, or confirms my intelligence by making it clearer. Wonderful introduction to Enzensberger.

interesting topic thank you

Thank you so much

Rad! Can’t wait for Baudrillard!

I be learning so much

Great explanation

Oh, very interesting stuff! I need to read all of this in detail

I think in a way of the modern internet is 99% society of the spectacle, 1% video network of activists. But it's a spectrum, the genre of edutainment can I think mobilize people politically if it has that intention, but mainly it's sort of intellectual comfort food.

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Would be nice to have vids on Friedrich Kittler and Villem Flusser, too 👀

Would you consider doing an episode on Glenn Gould? A contemporary of McLuhan, his pilosophy and theories about mass media and communication are well worth exploration on this channel. If you're unfamiliar with Gould as a philosopher, the best introduction is Geoffrey Payzant's seminal work, _Glenn Gould, Music and Mind_.

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Marx writing on globalisation while being in 19th century. He was ahead of his time.

Excellent as usual. Enzensberger is quite neglected, at least in the Anglosphere.

For some reason I'm not getting notified of your videos anymore. Still loving your videos though!

Hey, just a thought - ever considered uploading your videos also to some peertube instance? I mean in regard to your disclaimer - you could leave that away there ;)

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Yes and more yeses

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Well there is still a huge amount of work to be done in getting the preponderance of the people *interested* in political discourse, rather than just bread and circuses. It is only a largely self-motivated elite who ever do so. It is left to union leaders like Mick Lynch to raise the necessary consciousness. It should start in primary schools.

I feel like the idea that we are “post-industrial” is an extremely narrow, petty-bourgeois view. Our production still exists, it just has been displaced into the third world. Any hope for revolution lies in seizing the means of production, which does not lie in the imperial core. This is why, during my philosophy degree, I have shifted away from “critical theory” as I feel it ignores this salient fact. Additionally, media control is not about the medium (the internet is not inherently liberatory), as a communist state would (and has, as in china and USSR) needs to repress capitalist output. Preventing capitalists and foreign powers interfering to rough media can only be a good thing. (See Allende’s Chile as example of media being “free” and ending in disaster) I enjoy your videos, so would love to hear your thoughts.

Profilicity!

I can say as a Russian, a lot of things mentioned in this video can be related to politics in Russia. As everyone in the west know Russian's media is not quite free from state's influence, hence a lot elder people such as my grandparents and even to some extend parents are influenced by it in a way that they believe in complete lies which are said there. So for my generation the only reliable source of information is an internet and independent politicians such as Alexey Navalny, who is currently imprisoned, and other agenda free people.

You should have actually made an argument as to why Enzensberger was incorrect about the dazibaos in the GPCR. I think he is correct, and it is irresponsible to assume that the conventional wisdom about the cultural revolution being a disaster is correct. Communication in such a complex and world shaking event as the cultural revolution shouldn’t be a dismissed so easily without a deeper look at how the dazibaos functioned among the various mass organizations of the the GPCR.

It's curious that you speak about the bidirectional democratizing revolution of new electronic media, while simultaneously deleting any comments that are challenging or critical about your ideas. Would you care to explain this apparent contradiction?

With the rise of Language Learning Model like ChatGPT and other smaller AI capable of outputting millions of fake opinions, this idea sounds not very appealing right now.

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