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17 Aug 11Todd Suomela
"But it strikes me that there is something like the exact opposite anxiety — a pathological preoccupation with norms, which I want to call hypernomia — running through her music and her published interviews. Winehouse was the victim of another kind of “losing game” (other than love). It was part of her appeal that she was always outspoken and spontaneous in her conversation, so that her published statements have the quality of an intimate diary, raw and unrectified."
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Probably the best analysis of this type of mentality is provided by René Girard, the French philosopher, in his work on scapegoat theory. Breivik identifies himself as a Christian and defender of the faith. Girard brings out how integral to the passion narrative the practice of scapegoating is: people can only be saved, the argument goes, by sacrifice. Exactly who is to be sacrificed remains tantalizingly open. It is in this sense that Breivik’s quoted defense of his actions as “atrocious but necessary” may be understood.
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27 Jul 11Weiye Loh
There is an obvious tension between our self-evident diversity and a highly normative concern with or idealization of appearance. While Amy Winehouse turned her overly normative critical apparatus on herself, Breivik applied his with monstrous consequences on just about anyone other than himself (as has been pointed out, unlike so-called “spree killers,” Breivik never had any notion of seeking his own destruction). One was a self-hater, the other would appear to be more a delusional self-lover. But both seem to have been suffering from hypernomia.
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brainwireio
AMY WINEHOUSE, ANDERS BEHRING BREIVIK, PHILOSOPHY
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