Big brain tech dude got yet another clueless take over at HackerNews etc? Here's the place to vent. Orange site, VC foolishness, all welcome.
This is not debate club. Unless it’s amusing debate.
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archive link: https://archive.ph/ONKkm
contextualizes the topic beautifully. you might learn a lot about how american racism relates to capital and art from this article
highlight: most of these guys are into classical art fascism but one of them, a bitcoin guy looking to build a 450 foot tall statue of prometheus, appears to be specifically into italian fascism. his favorite aesthetic is futurism and he hired a futurist sculptor with this "manifesto" on his website:
Tech bros: putting the “meth” in “prometheus”
Shit, it is going to be really hard for me going forward to not intentionally mispronounce that.
Listen I love me a giant statue, surely we can find a common ground. The right wants giant statues to be of rich white men, I say Kropotkin it is.
We need to fight capitalism with giant mechs modeled after wealthy white leftist intellectuals. Here's my proposal for project Friedrich Evangelsion Unit-00
Anno was cooking when he predicted that the tech elite (seele) would try to melt down all of humanity into amorphous data (orange tang) and control the “superintelligence” singularity (third impact)
What he got wrong is that the emotionally stunted boss man in charge of executing the plans of the shadowy elite conspiracy was a grieving widowed wife guy and not just the most divorced man in the world.
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Meme template is the scene from the tv show "The Good Place", where Michael is expressing disbelief about someone notably stupid figuring something out.
Michael: "Alex Jones figured it out? Alex Jones? This is a real low point. Yeah, this one hurts."
Well that's some edgelord manifesto, I don't think artists really need to "disrupt" anything. You can make valid criticisms with your art of course. If you're making art to get reactions out of people you're doing it wrong. And I'm not even sure who this manifesto is for since there are so very few boundaries in the art world, it's just a bunch of words.
if you're familiar with the history of fascism, he might as well have just written "ART SHOULD BE FASCIST" over and over. for example, one of the tenets of fascism is the 'cult of action for action's sake,' which you can see stamped all over this. and in the fascist conception, all institutions, including the art world, exist ultimately to preserve and extend their favored cultural values like vitality, creation, masculine strength, rejection of the outgroup, and identification with the nation
Doesn't matter if any of those projects come through. The aesthetic of the current US ruling clique is gilded toilet bowls and AI-generated poop videos, and always will be.
They're obsessed with giant somethings that's for sure.