{"id":8890,"date":"2021-10-29T11:56:08","date_gmt":"2021-10-29T08:56:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eero.storijapan.net\/docfolio\/?p=8890"},"modified":"2021-10-29T11:56:54","modified_gmt":"2021-10-29T08:56:54","slug":"20211029-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eero.storijapan.net\/docfolio\/20211029-2\/","title":{"rendered":"20211029"},"content":{"rendered":"

In the contemporary milieu, the idea of being negative is either regarded as a destructive mentality or else defeatist fatalism. But, at least in passing shades, negative emotions can hold great power. There resides in negativity the seed of critical thought and a beneficial duty to engage with one\u2019s internal feelings.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The Art of Negativity \u2013 On Rejecting Positive Thinking<\/a> (2021) Enis Yucekoralp. The text draws a link between capitalism, positivity and the “Likes” which social media devices employ. There is a determinism at play in positivity\u2026 As if things would “get to” or need to “go towards” to exist or feel good to be meaningful! I’m reminded of a previous claim that bitterness is in fact an emotional response of class awareness #\u0950. This is framed in a sentence: “Judgmental bourgeois attitudes towards revolt and protest necessarily represent hegemonic support for the status quo”. The text brings forth a useful concept: “toxic positivity”, which is deployed to against the stagnative argument that “negative emotions are inherently \u2018bad'”. The author identifies trades of “cultist optimism”, which approaches critical world-views as a sin. Also loving the critique of “wellness capitalism” (Yucekoralp is citing Audre Lorde).<\/p>\n

\u2026 the English Romantic poet John Keats formulated a concept, one which he termed \u2018negative capability\u2019. At root, it describes a propensity for living in the midst of mystery; or, more accurately, the power to accept enigmas and uncertainties with an open mind free from the imposition to hunt down order and clarity. His very use of \u2018negative\u2019 is not meant derogatively, but to represent absence in a more abstract sense \u2013 the positive potential of \u2018being without\u2019 something. In this case: knowledge or certainty.<\/p>\n

Wellness capitalism is the symptom of a much more corrosive condition; as if more consumption were the answer to healing the wounds of capitalism. In reality, the promises of \u2018mindfulness\u2019, \u2018positive mental attitude\u2019 and \u2018healthy living\u2019 pledged by the industrial wellness complex are exposed as just one more arrow in the quiver of exploitation.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

We should work to destroy ourselves nicely, not only to maintain the current but to destroy it! Authentic movement and authentic drunken slumber can possibly be equally healing. Authentic Drinking (or getting fucked up in other ways) was recently discussed with Leena and Heini.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In the contemporary milieu, the idea of being negative is either regarded as a destructive mentality or else defeatist fatalism. But, at least in passing shades, negative emotions can hold great power. There resides in negativity the seed of critical thought and a beneficial duty to engage with one\u2019s internal feelings. The Art of Negativity … <\/p>\n

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