Uploaded March 2021 | Updated September 2026, 4 days ago
An overview of Eric Herhuth's essay "Love, Life, and Programming: The Culture and Politics of WALL-E and Pixar Computer Animation," in which I provide some background on the intellectual discourses the essay is drawing from, and expand some of the essay's insights.
Topics discussed include Sergei Eisenstein's animation theory, capitalist ideology, and the relation between capitalist ideology and romance.
One concept that I try to elucidate that may be particularly difficult for American viewers is Herhuth's use of the term "liberal." Though I try to explain the term's relation to liberal capitalism (as distinct from the term's common American use as a vague synonym for "progressive" or "not conservative" politics), you can find a much more nuanced take on the concept of "liberalism" by Philosophy Tube, here: youtube.com/watch?v=VlLgvSduugI
An overview of Eric Herhuth's essay "Love, Life, and Programming: The Culture and Politics of WALL-E and Pixar Computer Animation," in which I provide some background on the intellectual discourses the essay is drawing from, and expand some of the essay's insights.
Topics discussed include Sergei Eisenstein's animation theory, capitalist ideology, and the relation between capitalist ideology and romance.
One concept that I try to elucidate that may be particularly difficult for American viewers is Herhuth's use of the term "liberal." Though I try to explain the term's relation to liberal capitalism (as distinct from the term's common American use as a vague synonym for "progressive" or "not conservative" politics), you can find a much more nuanced take on the concept of "liberalism" by Philosophy Tube, here: youtube.com/watch?v=VlLgvSduugI
