BASED SAFETY
DC Miller traverses the city, conjuring the ghost of William Blake and pining for an art that goes deeper than politics. Angelicism01 declares the DEATH OF KANTBOT: “By this stage, Kantbot does not exist.” Shout-outs to the homies at Rare Candy podcast and GayeStepDad who pay respects to the best ‘stack in the game right now, motherfuckers! Alex Rubinstein explains the incoming menace of “intersectional imperialism,” at The Bellows. Michael Tracey, whose appetite for internet warfare is seemingly limitless, discusses the growing importance of journos feigning trauma in efforts to climb up the career ladder in the industry that they’re still calling “journalism” even though it should be called, “adult babies who would blow every media big wig in New York if it meant they got a regular column at a newspaper that their parents read.” Tucker Carlson refuses to let Matt Gaetz suck him into his sexcapades controversies, which leaves Gaetz flummoxed when the chubby congressman realizes that Tucker has integrity and isn’t just helping him do propaganda. It’s funny stuff. Hauser and Wirth, definitively too big to fail it would seem, decides to give the middle finger to cynical art world libtards and show the KKK paintings that got Philip Guston’s retrospective preemptively canceled last summer. Good on them! A good episode here of Zach Langley’s I’m so Popular podcast; he and Emiliano celebrate some of cinema’s most powerfully graphic depictions of rape (Lars Von Trier’s Dogville, Gaspar Noé’s Irreversible, Saló, Wes Craven’s Last House on the Left). Also have to add an excellent piece by the philosopher Elena Louisa Lange (whose politics are functionally quite close to mine, if you must know and/or if you’re spreading rumors abut my alleged crypto-fascism), who writes about “marxism-feminism” being another fake bourgeois ideology (older piece but I missed it when it dropped).
I’m once again spread around the Internet this week (seemingly everyone wants a piece of my ass…). I write about the Croatian art duo TARWUK and its occultist themes of survival and extinction for Bloat. I appear on BigBreadBrainz to discuss anti-leftism, art world liberal propaganda, Deleuze, Foucault, and Mark Fisher. Finally, in what I believe to be one of the greatest podcast episodes ever, Memeanalysis and I go on Contain: magic, Twin Peaks: The Return, transcendental cringe (Barrett’s concept), cryptographic transgressive art (or crypto-transgression, my concept) and the sorcerers of strange rock n’ roll SUN CITY GIRLS are among the topics of conversation!
CRINGE PROPAGANDA
Nathan J. Robinson does an April Fools joke! His fake letter of resignation is a thinly veiled jab at Glenn Greenwald, who has more integrity in his funny shitposts than Robinson has in his entire body of work. The joke sucks hard, Nathan sucks hard; Robinson’s ridiculous appearance is a deflection, he’s a filthy propagandist and should be treated as such (gaylord velvet suits or not). Foucault gets cancelled for boy love again (seems like it’s every few or so months that this happens and it’s boring and tedious). TrueAnon shark bites the shit out of antileftist critiques from over a fucking YEAR AGO; now that we’ve all been “dealt with” we can expect the leftoid big dogs to make it rain with our ideas, neutering them of any radical potential whatsoever (I still kinda dig Liz though, I guess I’m a fan boy at heart!). AOC gets called out on Instagram for no longer caring about the immigrant crisis now that it’s a Democrat brutalizing children; she responds in a quite retarded performative, theater kid style, while attempting to bring “nuance” to the issue (even claiming that “immigration is a foreign policy issue,” the same claim that Angela Nagle made and was cancelled for by the repulsive people that still send their mommy and daddy’s money to AOC’s campaigns) AOC then claims that referring to an “immigration surge” is a “white supremacist” dog whistle (she’s not very smart at all, of course). Brie Grey Joy (looking, it has to be said, incredibly hot these days) and Virgil Texas have Marxist revolutionary thinker turned milquetoast liberal cuck David Harvey (ain’t that a story we’ve heard before!) on to do a thought experiment: “what would Marx do if he were in the Squad?” It’s very dumb and I hate it a lot. Hmmmm… What else? Oh yeah, artist Abbey Williams thinks of her collages and videos as being “inversions of white hegemony.” White hegemony? How in the fuck can we still be living under white hegemony when every streaming service has about four columns dedicated to BLM-branded content? Maybe she means, “liberal hegemony?” Because we definitely live under that! Probably not - most likely Abbey and/or Hyperallergic haven’t read Gramsci and aren’t really sure what “hegemony” means. Painter Sam McKinnis seems to have really bought into the idea that the functionally braindead puppet being commandeered by the CIA and the NSA over at the White House will somehow meaningfully deal with the problems we face (it’s been brought to my attention that my reading here might be harsh, sorry folks I guess I’m more full of piss and vinegar than usual this week, apologies Sam). Comedian Nish Kumar, whose incoherent wokelord politics contributed to the disconnect between Corbyn and the actually working class base he was trying to build, gets fired by the BBC. This would be based, if not for the NY Times profile in which the comedian blames viewers’ “anti-brownness racism” for him not getting the ratings he needed. Nice deflection there, pal! IT NEVER FUCKING ENDS!
Spring time is here!! Be well!
Illustration by Adam Lehrer
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