{"id":755,"date":"2026-05-08T23:47:22","date_gmt":"2026-05-09T04:47:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mammothpearl.com\/?p=755"},"modified":"2026-05-09T00:04:58","modified_gmt":"2026-05-09T05:04:58","slug":"thirst-of-a-jug-thoughts-of-a-table-anatomy-and-ideology-in-the-cartoon-body-part-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mammothpearl.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/08\/thirst-of-a-jug-thoughts-of-a-table-anatomy-and-ideology-in-the-cartoon-body-part-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Thirst of a Jug, Thoughts of a Table: Anatomy and Ideology in the Cartoon Body (Part 1)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading has-afacad-font-family has-medium-font-size\" style=\"margin-bottom:8px\">Introduction<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-afacad-font-family\" style=\"letter-spacing:0px;line-height:1.4\">TEXT IS FOR PLACEMENT ONLY The sound animated cartoon in the 1920s and 30s can be read as a space of transduction for a media\u2011saturated <strong><em>collective imagination<\/em>.&nbsp;<\/strong> It&#8217;s one that is socially and psychically charged with the impact of early 20th century industrialization.&nbsp; In terms of desire, the <span style=\"color:#FB3719;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dictionary.apa.org\/scopophilia\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/dictionary.apa.org\/scopophilia\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">scopophilia<\/a>,<\/span> escapism, cathartic violence, and humor direct a reinvention of production, labor and individuation in a world transformed by an accelerated market economy, and the beginning of a bourgeois academic love affair with psychoanalysis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"padding-bottom:24px;line-height:1.4\">FPOts of <span style=\"color:#FB3719;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Frankfurt_School\">Frankfurt school<\/a><\/span> critics Walter Benjamin and Theodor Adorno, analysis of the animated cartoon plays an instrumental role in a critical dialogue examining the mass culture industry as an extension of capitalism&#8217;s potential to alienate workers and exploit their labor. &nbsp;However, conversely, those same cartoons as publicly-viewed spectacles, raise the issue of <em>collectivity<\/em> in mass entertainment, and its potential to create <em>political solidarity <\/em>as an intervention in this alienation process.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Introduction TEXT IS FOR PLACEMENT ONLY The sound animated cartoon in the 1920s and 30s can be read as a space of transduction for a media\u2011saturated collective imagination.&nbsp; It&#8217;s one that is socially and psychically charged with the impact of early 20th century industrialization.&nbsp; In terms of desire, the scopophilia, escapism, cathartic violence, and humor [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29,31,1],"tags":[18,24,23,19,22,21],"class_list":["post-755","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cinema","category-critical-theory","category-pop-culture","tag-cartoons","tag-early-cinema","tag-frankfurt-school","tag-marxism","tag-theodor-adorno","tag-walter-benjamin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mammothpearl.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/755","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mammothpearl.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mammothpearl.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mammothpearl.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mammothpearl.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=755"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mammothpearl.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/755\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1587,"href":"https:\/\/mammothpearl.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/755\/revisions\/1587"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mammothpearl.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mammothpearl.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mammothpearl.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}