Benedict Anderson's "Imagined Communities" (Part 1/2)

In this episode, I cover the first half of Benedict Anderson's "Imagined Communities."
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[@cjaquilino]

Interested in the book because I'm interested in parasocial relationships with celebrities and how they became a wide spread phenomenon.
Also interested in how consumerist identities came to be, where stanning people and "brands" became a huge aspect of people's identities, and how that's largely *replaced* stuff like real community and familial connections, biological and not.

[@travis1759]

Just in the middle of reading this, I think your summary is spot on!
One thing that stood out to me, is how similar his arguments about print capitalism, and the new conception of time, are to those made by Marshall McLuhan in the Gutenberg Galaxy. Although, as far as I can tell, McLuhan gets scant mention.

[@Mike-zd8wq]

Just started the book and that popped out immediately.

[@frimports]

Thanks David, your content is refreshing as you tackle some of the living philosophers. I appreciate you 😀

[@christianbaoticBr92]

Great vid, just the part about time I understood more like rise in awareness of a lot of simultaneous linear times instead of one linear time. As he tried to show with examples from books at the time. Of course people always percieved time as linear.

[@prerna22munshi]

Loved it!

[@elsborn8034]

thank you that you are starting to cover some post-colonial/ decolonial scholars!

[@colonelweird]

There was a very long Twitter thread a couple of months ago that used this book to discuss the background of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. It described the rise of what we now call Russia through the Empire, and through the homogenization of language around Pushkin's Russian. Around the same time a similar process was happening in Ukraine, with Shevchenko the hero and model for Ukrainians. But Russia had always made claims over Ukraine, so they regarded this process in Ukraine as a form of uncivilized barbarism. In any case, I'm glad to hear more about Anderson's book now, since I didn't know anything about it previously.

[@jero4059]

War in Ukraine has nothing to do with historic empires and homogenization of language here or there. It is a proxy NATO war and NATO invasion of Ukraine due to subduing the Russian Federation.

[@Ethan-fh9lq]

I've heard also that there was a linguistic divide in Ukraine during much of the 20th Century, and to some degree carrying on into this decade, where the rural areas and small towns between cities had many more Ukrainian speakers. Meanwhile the large cities like Kyiv, even in the western side of the country, had much larger Russian speaking populations, and Russian tended to be the language of the political and cultural elite, much like German was in the Austro-Hungarian empire. This divide was compounded by early Soviet efforts to stifle budding Ukrainian national consciousness, which probably played a big part in the persistence of the trend, even as the later USSR promoted multiculturalism to a higher degree than the Stalinist period.

[@LODEH08532]

Good sharing

[@numbersix8919]

This is very interesting.
Still waiting for an explanation of where and how Edward Said goes wrong in applying his concept of Orientalism.

[@dhritigandham6436]

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[@kyawzayyarlwin8003]

Thanks but will be more helpful if you include some power points