Very thoughtful writing on a topic that I struggle with, often feeling torn between staying quiet until I've done some careful thinking on a subject and the urge to just fire off takes. I really like what you say about takes being partially defined by assumptions of audience ("making up a guy to get mad at" phenomenon), especially within the contemporary climate of 'what does it mean watch/like something'. Something that came to mind as I was reading was Bourdieu's Distinction and thinking of the take similar to taste as an act of social distinction (recognizing that this may require similar assumptions of audience). Morality, politics, and activism become synthesized in the take, which functions as a discursive practice within a discursive field, but one that situates the interlocutor within that field.
Since last Friday, I've repeatedly seen the take that seeing BARBIE before OPPENHEIMER, or seeing it rather than the Nolan film, is a political act. (And of course, it's a decision being publicized on social media, often from people who haven't even seen it yet.) This utterly baffles me, but it bears out your second paragraph.
Very thoughtful writing on a topic that I struggle with, often feeling torn between staying quiet until I've done some careful thinking on a subject and the urge to just fire off takes. I really like what you say about takes being partially defined by assumptions of audience ("making up a guy to get mad at" phenomenon), especially within the contemporary climate of 'what does it mean watch/like something'. Something that came to mind as I was reading was Bourdieu's Distinction and thinking of the take similar to taste as an act of social distinction (recognizing that this may require similar assumptions of audience). Morality, politics, and activism become synthesized in the take, which functions as a discursive practice within a discursive field, but one that situates the interlocutor within that field.
Since last Friday, I've repeatedly seen the take that seeing BARBIE before OPPENHEIMER, or seeing it rather than the Nolan film, is a political act. (And of course, it's a decision being publicized on social media, often from people who haven't even seen it yet.) This utterly baffles me, but it bears out your second paragraph.