Reddit reviews Babbling Corpse: Vaporwave And The Commodification Of Ghosts

www.amazon.com/Babbling-Corpse-Vaporwave-Commodification-Ghosts/dp/1782797599

www.amazon.com/Vaporwave-Dystopian-Musical-Ekko-Iruka/dp/1329386264

or Babbling Corpse, also from zero books.

> isnt japan fairly homogeneous and this wouldnt really apply to them? they have plenty of common myths and folktales, they have plenty of common legends, they tend to respect their environment a fair bit as well. theres plenty of coherence there. but the coherence has become a weight pressing on the necks of the youth and average citizen to become more valuable for the companies.

Even if you find strong disagreement with Marx' economic analysis, his philosophical work is becoming more and more insightful to today's world in particular his theory of alienation. There are so many comments in this thread that have probably never read about it yet describe exactly alienation from Gattungswessen(species essence), the product, from other workers. Humans are more commodified than ever, and we are discovering that commodification was never the same as a meaningfully productive role in society. Look at the emergence of "the gig economy", how there is no more future even within companies(which were already a terrible substitute for a tribal unit), wherein you must leave for greater pay.

When he described his Theory of Alienation, I think he underestimated the amount of sheer wealth that would be produced in globalization, but as always, the margins get tighter and tighter and the fever dream of globalized wealth for a middle class was never sustainable with a never ending greed of the elite.

The youth of today, despite all the conservative and neoliberal propaganda thrown at them, know deep inside that something is wrong, even if they can't articulate it. They know there is something wrong with entering adulthood with a lifetime of debt, into a disappearing job market. There is a nostalgia for a past that never existed, even their parents who grew up in the economic booms did not know the dreams they handed to their children would become dust.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marx%27s_theory_of_alienation

https://www.amazon.com/Babbling-Corpse-Vaporwave-Commodification-Ghosts/dp/1782797599

You might want to check out Babbling Corpse. although it takes itself a bit too seriously at times, it presents a good comparison of vaporwave against modern culture and digs into the history and philosophy of where the culture of vaporwave exists.