Détournement is no longer a strategy: the spectacle is endlessly self-disrupting, endlessly self-referential, endlessly self-critical. By the time the merry-go-round gets back where it started, it has become a cliché.
Intellectuals and artists retreat into pastiche, exaggeration, parody, not out of an affinity for the form but to avoid the crippling fear that what they are doing is already, has always been, pastiche, exaggeration, self-parody.
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Détournement is no longer a strategy: the spectacle is endlessly self-disrupting, endlessly self-referential, endlessly self-critical. By the time the merry-go-round gets back where it started, it has become a cliché.
Intellectuals and artists retreat into pastiche, exaggeration, parody, not out of an affinity for the form but to avoid the crippling fear that what they are doing is already, has always been, pastiche, exaggeration, self-parody.
beautiful microaphorisms. as a zoomer i have struggles understanding millenial fascination w the spectacle but its all gold <3
Happy to have you here. Elijah has three pieces here and they’re all superlative. I also understand our tandem will continue until morale improves.
As to the spectacle, I have some thoughts on the nature of the spectacular written on Twitter that I should probably throw together somewhere.
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