Saturday, January 29, 2011
a brief history of thrills
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Thursday, January 27, 2011
Tuesday, January 25, 2011
Saturday, January 22, 2011
well done
the most rigorous kind of experience/consciousness is the one where you're completely aware you're going crazy
Sunday, January 16, 2011
Acceptable forms of Misogynism in Pop Culture
This is not offensive; this is senseless.
I am going to make an (im)moral judgment on my past work: In deliberately positioning myself as the troubled sexual subject in my past work I objectify myself, as well as other men and women all the time. By pretending that everyone is a (stupid) desiring viewer I am being your best female chauvinist pig. (aka. I am an "open-minded" good sport)
Misogynism comes from both men and women. Misogynism also comes from women who hate other women on the basis of beauty and competition. We take pleasure in the aesthetics of failure. At some point the formal use of irony in these videos suggests our social disingenuity-to skirt and laugh around issues of inequity, offering nothing but the chance for infinite regress through humor of an other's lack.
Someone else's sincere engagement with feelings of misfortune and self-victimization is ironic in mass communication because you think it is funny and "I know that you know that I know" it is funny, which might be why death and sex is funny. How embarassing that the tactic is empathetically so simplistic. I don't think that irony is by any means insincere but an easy copout from taking an extremist and defiant stance on any pressing social issue.
Irony renders objectification palateable and acceptable in mainstream and mass media:
and of course, on YouTube
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