#karl critical

[jaskierx]

anyway i for one welcome our new meme format (x)

[thediaryofarevolutionist]

-Simone de beauvoir „The second sex“

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[1000rh]

Fascism sees its salvation in giving these masses not their right, but instead a chance to express themselves. The masses have a right to change property relations; Fascism seeks to give them an expression while preserving property. The logical result of Fascism is the introduction of aesthetics into political life.

– Walter Benjamin, “The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction” (1935)

[timegays]

Monty haters will never understand him like I do

[artsyebonyrose]

send me some character requests!!

while i get working on those other prompts from my other post, please give me some characters for this and the expressions you want for them!

preferably mainly resident evil characters, as that is what i'm currently obsessing over

however i will more than gladly do characters from my other interests too! (check my pinned post for the list)

send requests my way in my ask box :) comments here are fine too but its easier to organise asks

these beautiful expression sheets are courtesy of @magicalpouchofmagic and @quinngefail respectively! <3

[typicalsimswhore]

Any Marxist-Leninist girlies/enbies here? I would like to create a safe space for us to discuss our ideas openly, since I don't see a lot of women with voices in this community :)

Let's share ideas and be friends!!!

💖🏳️‍🌈

[benjaminallhope-fulltimemind]

This is deeply ironic and funny given Elon Musk has a transgender child who refused to be related to him, he's a petty tyrant acting out against Gavin Newsom for "eroding parents rights" even though across America children are considered like property. Does anyone know how underfunded and hamstrung CPS is, parents can and do have the ability to do anything they want to their children without consequences? Anyways good riddance as while he helped start up the LA aerospace industry we've grown past him, I mean it isn't healthy economic wise to be dependent on a single company like SpaceX. So yeah it's funny this is the reason he's moving his entire company, just shows how insecure he is.

[gxldencity]

It is actually very annoying that baldur's gate 3 has the most explicit portrayals of bisexuality for games like this where every romance option is bi and yet that is still not enough for some ppl. They're still gonna call them playersexual even though the origin companions in bg3 flirt with one another WITHOUT input of the player's gender. It's not enough. Some of you literally want every companion to say "btw I'm bi" in the intro scene before it's considered "valid" "bisexual rep—even though its a goddamn video game set in another world. I thought you wanted nuanced portrayals of queerness but i guess that doesnt apply to bi folks lol. I thought you all had media literacy skills bc you literally yell at that to ppl rightfully calling you a biphobe by implying that these characters are either gay or straight depending on your tav's gender (bc that is literally what playersexual is).

[callese]

[unapologeticmelancholy]

[htylmg]

i finally figured out why this year’s met gala theme irked me so much and it’s a simple reason, summed up in three words:

clean. girl. aesthetic.

karl lagerfeld (rest in piss) built his platform and influence on the commodification of seemingly “rich” traits- aka, ‘less is more’. we’re talking neutrals, thin gold jewelry, white embellishments, and overall simplicity.

this style had a big sway over the fashion world in the 90s (read: the “heroin chic” phenomenon) and we see it making a comeback today in the fashion world and even our everyday lives. (how many of us have seen one of those clean aesthetic accounts on social media? me 🙋🏽‍♀️!)

it’s well known that history repeats itself, and nowhere is that more obviously prevalent than in fashion. fashion is influenced by old and new factors, and every few years, the same type of style comes along. lo and behold, the y2k and 90s renaissance that is currently sweeping the world. and with old trends comes the… not so nice bits.

so what is the “clean girl aesthetic”, exactly? to be extremely brief, it’s the trend that combines looks and lifestyle to create a look that is meant to appear classy yet minimalist. some of its key features include slicked back buns, thick gold hoops, and neutral-colored clothing. (note: this style actually first got its roots among women of color, especially black and hispanic women, but as it became more mainstream, white people claimed it as their own and essentially erased years of fashion and woc history. yeah, i know…)

some of the major champions/idols of the clean girl aesthetic (try to catch familiar names!) include bella & gigi hadid, kendall jenner, hailey bieber, and madison beer. (note that these are all thin, rich, generically attractive white women, most of whom are models and/or nepotism babies. it’s a great example of the “diversity” within the current aesthetic as well as the prerequisites it seems to imply.)

so what do the hadid sisters have to do with karl lagerfeld? i’m glad you asked. see, they may not be anything alike, but they are inextricably intertwined with one another for one reason and one reason only…

money.

(more specifically, the physical manifestation of the idea of having money. phew, that’s a doozy.)

for years, less has come to mean more, and maximalism has given way to minimalism. who doesn’t want to be rich, right? just the idea of looking like somebody rich makes anybody empty their pockets. hey, buy this dress, it’s a dupe of one madison beer just wore. you haven’t included this $70 serum in your skincare routine? hailey bieber literally posted it on her story. what do you mean you can’t afford the dior lip oil? everyone has one. do you have this? do you have that? are you rich? are you not? if you are, you better buy into this.

yeah. it’s a lot.

no one is immune to propaganda. we’ve all been influenced to buy something or watch something or do something because we’ve seen it on the internet. and now, you can be your favorite celebrities in just a few clicks. how enticing is that?

this whole concept of looking like money is as old as time, but just now is it extremely accessible. karl lagerfeld, the old coot, knew the power of wanting to look rich, and he capitalized and profited off of it as much as he could. if you look up chanel’s old collections karl designed, you’ll find they look nearly identical in terms of ideas to the runways of today. remember how i said history repeats itself? yep.

so yeah- i don’t like the met gala theme. not only because karl lagerfeld was a piece of shit that chanel should have booted at the very beginning, but also because of the pressure of the clean girl aesthetic that he may have packaged as “heroin chic”, but is still prevalent in the fashion of today.

[artofthemindblog]

It may take generations of effort but it is possible, and honorable, to move the Earth

  Stories of humans leaving Earth behind due to catastrophe are not rare, but the mass exodus usually happens on a spaceship. I'm going to make a bold generalization here but I think a lot of you would agree these movies draw their philosophy from Noah's ark. In the west, when nature is destroyed it's usually unstoppable, like the wrath of god. Humans live in god's creation, so when god's creation comes to an end, humanity is at god's mercy. In Chinese mythology however, there is no such supreme being, humans and gods alike obey the natural order, the "Tao", if you will. So, in Chinese flood myths the hole in the sky is patched up by a goddess, the flood from the Yellow River was contained and drained by human constructions over the course of 13 long years. The Chinese equivalent of the Icarus myth talks about a man chasing the sun and dying of thirst, but he leaves behind a peach forest as a water supply so that future generations may continue the chase. In Chinese mythology, and thus, philosophy, nature is malleable: It can be shaped, it can be conquered. It may take generations of effort but it is possible, and honorable, to move the Earth.

-- Accented Cinema, The Wandering Earth: How to Tell a Chinese Story

[pablolf]

Of all the pressures on professional formation faced by literary scholars today, perhaps the most intense is the fear of exclusion from the profession altogether. Guillory’s book is sure to rouse strong feelings in a generation or two of scholars who continue to suffer underemployment and precarity. Such experiences yield deformations of their own: regret at wasted time; pain of a future foreclosed; bitterness that others have access to resources for reasons that seem arbitrary or unfair. “To be a freelance scholar, no matter the quality of one’s scholarship, is precisely to be excluded from the system of rewards,” Guillory argues. A profession, he observed in “Cultural Capital,” is an ego-ideal, an inner image of oneself. There is perhaps nothing harder or less rewarding to historicize than a bruised ego.

Has Academia Ruined Literary Criticism?

[benjaminallhope-fulltimemind]

Yessss success! Why are these billionaires always trying to create their own cities from the ground up, well it's for multiple reasons.

Firstly it allows them to greenwash which is to appear eco-friendly while their companies pump out pollution and guzzle energy, it makes them look good without trying.

Remember the game bioshock and the city of rapture or historical company towns, if they build it with their resources then they own it which doesn't seem bad but remember what happened in those aforementioned places, think of what abuses would take place in a modern company town owned by profit hungry corporations?

Funnily enough it would be easier to just redevelop preexisting cities but for the 2 reasons above they don't want to, believe me downtown Detroit is a great example as it has preexisting infrastructure and it has areas perfect for creating new developments.

Ultimately it's about ego and control, don't ever think otherwise my peeps, housing is already messed up and no amount of billionaire money will fix it except through wealth redistribution and comprehensive taxation.

[httpiastri]

Hi i don't know if you know this but one of the bracelets that Paul wears is Elena's. The one with smiley faces there are pictures of her on ig wearing it before. Paul also gave her one of his pirelli hat.

oH ?? i had no idea 😵 ofc i had to go on a little stalk down both of their ig accs and… well….. 👀