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Abstract
It is the hardest thing in the world to be a materialist. In theory, that isas a theorist. Even though thought seems irreducible in its linguistic and even imagistic materiality, nonetheless, an irreducible kernel of abstraction, idealism, and metaphysics always persists, like a moteor a splinterin the eye. Some of the current impasses in cultural studies might be compelled to resolve themselves around this subterranean persistence of essence concealed beneath appearance, as the concrete, lived experiences of classed and gendered bodies nonetheless bring to our very attempt to think them a troublesome abstraction, like baggage, trailing in their wake. But this claim might also allow another approach to these issues. The essentializing aspects of, say, gender and even of film itself then demand a mode of thought that might use the concept, thought, against itself, allowing subject and object to show forth their particularities without assimilating them to the determinants of a preexisting schema. Hence negative dialectics: for in the hic et nunc of late capitalism, essence can only be the current mode of production itself, while appearance, predictably enough, comes to represent the social relations of production.1 Here the dialectic cuts both ways, giving a material density to philosophical abstraction while simultaneously making available to a critical materialism the rich conceptual history of a seemingly incompatible idealist philosophical history and tradition.

This is basically an academic version of the Rick and Morty copypasta.

That is not an abstract, that is a brain fart in electronic format. That's the sort of thing I used to crap out when I was still doing my "gimmick", because lol wordplay.

Plain English, [Tarantino reference] do you speak it?

It's basically the antithesis of everything I've been trained to do when writing publication-worthy articles.

Source: https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1057/9781137306142_5

AI generated?

Your first mistake was taking published to mean "good" or "important".