I've seen an impressive number of women on youtube saying that the negative response this game has garnered represents the "death" or "decline" or "fall" of
"media literacy."Some of these women make good cases and some of them make very bad cases, but for some reason or another most of them make very, very Millennial cases. Even if they're Gen Z women themselves there's a very strong tendency to point to the irony-poisoned and or audience-antagonistic media of the mid-90s to early-2010s and argue that it was too sophisticated to be understood by a modern audience. And it does make some sense, there are ways in which the game captures some of the feel of a period piece about the deviantArt days despite it being obviously inspired by Wuhan Novel Human Coronavirus 2019 SARS-II The Revenge.
But, even if that's true, even if we concede the idea that audiences have lost the detachment and abstraction and culture of irreverence necessary to appreciate millennial art - is it really worth bringing back?
Behold the response to "Interior Semiotics." A 2010 performance art piece representing the depths of millennial feminist ironic art (using Northrop Frye's classification system referring to art in "The Ironic Mode."). Interior Semiotics consisted of the artist, Natacha Stolz, opening a can of expired spaghetti-os, rubbing them over her shirt, masturbating, and urinating in a can. This represented the futility of the attempt to elevate existence above itself through art, the degradation of art through contact with inherently degrading subjects such as sexuality, the perversion of art appreciators whose true interests are prurient rather than analytical, and the degradation of women by and for a perverse audience and the position of women being entrapped on one side by a hypocritically perverse audience and on the other by repressive patriarchal norms. It does this by… just… being it. Very plainly performing that role, but with the expectation that you understand that it understands that role and understands that you understand th–
In front of a gathering of art appreciators who were themselves too eager to play the role of eiron to understand that their engagement with the piece was part of the piece. "Yay, art." The scrote who said that at the end there genuinely believed he was witty. And perhaps he was, if he understood the piece and understood that you also understand the piece and understood that you u
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