And I worry that this power from online "exploration" leads to a repressive desublimation, since fundamentally you're hiding behind a screen, or in your childhood bedroom.
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At this point Mitchell and Riopelle share a form of aesthetic-libidinal rage (perhaps aimed against the machinery of conformity?) typical of what Herbert Marcuse would later call repressive desublimation, in which the release of libidinal energies creates the cultural framework for a second repression.
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Depending on context, that process also may be called atmospheric icing. The ice it produces differs in some ways from crystalline frost, which consists of spicules of ice that typically project from the solid surface on which they grow. The main difference between the ice coatings and frost spicules arises from the fact that the crystalline spicules grow directly from desublimation of water vapour from air, and desublimation is not a factor in icing of freezing surfaces. For desublimation to proceed the surface must be below the frost point of the air, meaning that it is sufficiently cold for ice to form without passing through the liquid phase.
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Marcuse's idea has been criticized for utopianism in seeking to envisage an alternative to the happy consciousness of repressive desublimation that permeates postmodern culture, as well as for modernist elitism in his appeal for critical leverage to an 'autonomous' sphere of high culture.M. Hardt/K. Weeks eds., The Jameson Reader (2000) p.
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18 Here what has been called the socialisation of the unconscious into mass form of pleasure-drills,Ken Geller, The Horror Reader (2000) p. 102 and the exercise of control through the command to transgress, rather than to repress,Antonios Vadolas, Perversions of Fascism (2009) p. 25 appear as practical instances of repressive desublimation pervading global culture.
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Water vapor from humid winter-air deposits directly into a solid, crystalline frost pattern on a window, without ever being liquid in the process. Deposition is the phase transition in which gas transforms into solid without passing through the liquid phase. Deposition is a thermodynamic process. The reverse of deposition is sublimation and hence sometimes deposition is called desublimation.
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Critical exploration of contemporary Raunch culture has been usefully linked to the notion of repressive desublimation.Chloe Avril, The Feminist Utopian novels of Charlotte Perkins Gilman (2008) p. 77 But some postmodernist thought - while accepting repressive desublimation as a fairly accurate description of changing social mores, - see the ensuing depthlessness of postmodernism as something to be celebrated, not (as with Marcuse) condemned.Marianne DeKoven, Utopia Unlimited (2004) p.
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75-8 of art into a commodity incorporated into society itself. As Marcuse put it in One-Dimensional Man, "The music of the soul is also the music of salesmanship." By offering instantaneous, rather than mediated, gratifications,Herbert Marcuse, One- Dimensional Man (London 2002) p. 75-8 repressive desublimation was considered by Marcuse to remove the energies otherwise available for a social critique; and thus to function as a conservative force under the guise of liberation.
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Marcuse's famous concept repressive desublimation refers to his argument that postwar mass culture, with its profusion of sexual provocations, serves to reinforce political repression. If people are preoccupied with inauthentic sexual stimulation, their political energy will be "desublimated"; instead of acting constructively to change the world, they remain repressed and uncritical. Marcuse advanced the prewar thinking of critical theory toward a critical account of the "one-dimensional" nature of bourgeois life in Europe and America. His thinking could, therefore, also be considered an advance of the concerns of earlier liberal critics such as David Riesman.
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The air must be humid, but not sufficiently humid to permit the condensation of liquid water, or icing will result instead of desublimation. The size of the crystals depends largely on the temperature, the amount of water vapor available, and how long they have been growing undisturbed. As a rule, except in conditions where supercooled droplets are present in the air, frost will form only if the deposition surface is colder than the surrounding air. For instance frost may be observed around cracks in cold wooden sidewalks when humid air escapes from the warmer ground beneath.
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Dark green crystals of nickelocene, sublimed and freshly deposited on a cold finger Sublimation is the transition of a substance directly from the solid to the gas state, without passing through the liquid state. Sublimation is an endothermic process that occurs at temperatures and pressures below a substance's triple point in its phase diagram, which corresponds to the lowest pressure at which the substance can exist as a liquid. The reverse process of sublimation is deposition or desublimation, in which a substance passes directly from a gas to a solid phase. Sublimation has also been used as a generic term to describe a solid-to-gas transition (sublimation) followed by a gas-to-solid transition (deposition).
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Fraenkel (1992) believes that the "sexual revolution", which the West supposedly experienced in the late 1960s, is a misconception/misnomer, and that sex is never actually enjoyed freely as such, being rather observed in all fields of culture: a stance adopted toward human behavior referable to the concept of "repressive desublimation". According to this concept or interpretation (first evolved by Marxist philosopher Herbert Marcuse), the 'sexual revolution' would be an instance of a conservative force masquerading under the guise of liberation - a force sapping energies (here sexual) which would otherwise be available for a true social critique of a given behavior - and thus an impediment to any real political change which might emancipate the individual from "totalitarian democracy". (See also Bread and circuses, False consciousness and Frankfurt School). Put baldly, the pursuit of "sexual freedom" may be construed as a distraction from the pursuit of actual freedom.
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Hwang Jong-yeon has said that Yoon is a "writer of the polaroid generation, who has grown up with the marvels of camera technology", and describes that "the founding idea of the meticulous descriptions that are prevalent across Yoon's fiction, is that something visual (expression, behavior, action, the views) correlated with something intangible (experiences, mind, the truth), and that it is the most realistic correlation. While thoroughly depicting the many actions and events that form a person's everyday life, Yoon Sung-hee focuses on the special moments when those elements turn into the representation of the reality, or the true form of that person's life. The lives of individuals that Yoon Sung- hee depicts have small area of activity, and lacks content, but the details are always preparing a small wonder, in which hidden desires, relationships, and situations that the individual may not express, or may not have known, are realized."Hwang, Jong-yeon, "The Realism of Desublimation", Criticism for Debauchery, Munhakdongne, 2012: 229.
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