Скачать или смотреть The Bathos of Bezos - Cultural Death in Venice

In this video I take the literary notion of bathos and use it to analyse the recent Jeff Bezos wedding amidst the canals of Venice. In addition to bathos, I draw upon two psychoanalytical concepts - Sigmund Freud’s “Oceanic Feeling” and Sandor Ferenczi’s “Thalassa” (our subconscious desire to return to the womb).
I argue that the Bezos wedding represents the pathological egotism of celebrity culture and contrast it with the ego-less, womb-like peace to be found in the act of reading.

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