#ressentiments

[dtpnews]

Das ovale Büro brodelte bereits vor Ressentiments, als Vance das Match beleuchtete

In den ersten 40 Minuten ihres Treffens mit High-Stakes am Freitag gelang der US-Präsident Donald Trump und sein ukrainisches Gegenstück Volodymyr Zelensky, einen Deckel auf ihren Gemüter zu halten. Aber als sich ihre Meinungsverschiedenheiten gegenüber dem Ukraine -Konflikt summierten, wurde die Luft im ovalen Büro mit Ressentiments dick. Und dann zündete Vizepräsident JD Vance das Match an. In…

[sun-death]

[R]esistance must take the form of what Foucault calls agonism — an ongoing, strategic contestation with power — based on mutual incitement and provocation — without any final hope of being free from it. One can, as I have argued, never hope to overcome power completely — because every overcoming is itself the imposition of another regime of power. The best that can be hoped for is a reorganization of power relations — through struggle and resistance — in ways that are less oppressive and dominating. Domination can therefore be minimized by acknowledging our inevitable involvement with power, not by attempting to place ourselves impossibly outside the world of power. The classical idea of revolution as a dialectical overthrowing of power — the image that has haunted the radical political imaginary — must be abandoned. We must recognize the fact that power can never be overcome entirely, and we must affirm this by working within this world, renegotiating our position to enhance our possibilities of freedom.

Saul Newman, "Anarchism and the politics of ressentiment"

[daily-hanamura]

[bare1ythere]

I want to stand in front of the crowds with a dignified voice and say “I got here on 99.9% effort!”

[sivavakkiyar]

Damn I’m really hardcore scrooging this year. It’s snowing like really snowing on Christmas Eve and my first thought on seeing it was ahhh dammit I fucking hate the snow I have to shovel all this crap. not even playing the amarcord

[dhaaruni]

There are zero flattering explanations as to why a not insignificant amount of young POC are anti interracial relationships

[athousandgateaux]

It is reactive forces that express themselves in opposition, the will to nothingness that expresses itself in the labour of the negative. The dialectic is the natural ideology of ressentiment and bad conscience. It is thought in the perspective of nihilism and from the standpoint of reactive forces. It is a fundamentally Christian way of thinking, from one end to the other; powerless to create new ways of thinking and feeling. The death of God is a grand, noisy, dialectical event; but an event which happens in the din of reactive forces and the fumes of nihilism.

--Gilles Deleuze, Nietzsche and Philosophy, pg. 159

[utaitemusic]

ルサンチマン・クラブ　歌ってみた／宮下遊

[riewiggles]

Yosuke is literally the energy of someone who just rolls a 1 for every action

[sentai-cafe]

Onnen Sentai Ressentiment from Onnen Sentai Ressentiment

[sun-death]

The more one tries to repress power, the more obstinately it rears its head. This is because the attempts to deny power, through essentialist concepts of ‘natural’ laws and ‘natural’ morality, themselves constitute power, or at least are conditioned by relations of power. These essentialist identities and categories cannot be imposed without the radical exclusion of other identities. This exclusion is an act of power. If one attempts to radically exclude power, as the anarchists did, power ‘returns’ precisely in the structures of exclusion themselves.

Saul Newman, "Anarchism and the politics of ressentiment"

[daily-hanamura]

[sweetplacelikecandy]

Honestly, right now all I can think about is how awesome she must be for you to choose her, she must be perfect, she must be more funny, she must do magic tricks, she must shine like diamond, she must be your heaven on heart, and I the the summer that never last..

[jalgumacoisa]

Dizem que o mundo da voltas. Mal posso esperar para esse acontecimento e ai verei o seu tombo de camarote.

Jalgumacoisa.

[anaxerneas]

Max Scheler, Ressentiment tr. Lewis A. Coser

I think we can all understand the example of Tertullian or the reactionary attitude. The claim about philosophical criticism also suffering from a degree of "ressentiment" is more puzzling maybe.

Is 'contrastive' thinking necessarily an expression of ressentiment? (e.g. If the flaws of B help me appreciate A more than I would have otherwise). Even if Scheler doesn't reach that conclusion, does he come a bit too close? Surely we're meant to appreciate the genuinely "resurrected" person in contrast to the vengeful type that Tertullian embodies.

In any case, I don't think I'm free from ressentiment myself, and certainly Scheler wasn't either at the time he wrote this, given his support for German aggression during WWI. Specifically his framing the conflict as a kind of spiritual struggle against English and French values if I remember correctly.

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