Transgression, Eros and Art (Content Minded Ep.56).

[@jasonphillips8933]

last year, I finally took the plunge and joined a local church. I live with my (very close) family, I have a job with coworkers I get on with, but only when joining a community like that did I realise how much I've been missing the last decade. I was in a hell of a rut, and only after interacting with new people irl did I realise it Your story of coming out of being a hermit reminded me a lot of that

[@suitandtieguy]

Thanks for saying some nice things about Gonzalo. I have lost my mother, a mentor, and one of my favourite flawed e-guys over the past year. All of these losses had their roots in unjust activity of larger power structures. They all affect me, one more than others, but they are all sad.

[@11111Garth]

'A mid that loves you is no longer a mid' is such a true statement that a lot of people just don't understand.

[@facilegoose9347]

_Mid love you long time_

[@jorgepuente7541]

Giocels RISE

[@davidragsdale7923]

Great episode! Definitely worth a re-watch.

[@Bluj162]

Waiting for your deep dive into fishtank s2

[@adonayshot]

Nerds are not the best example as a group of people affected by modernity that still manage to have a personality. Most nerds manage only to create a consumer based "personality" , it's not a real one , but it has the form and the performative elements of a real personality. But just like you said, Gio, these people let their consumer based interests become their sense of self, but they are not striving for something greater, they are not trying to achieve something that is not just related to them. That's what lonely men should strive for, a real sense of self in this atomized world, they need to aim for something that is bigger than themselves and relate to other people with similar interests.

[@mostlydead3261]

someone has watched the latest Peterson & Vervaeke convo..

[@adonayshot]

@@mostlydead3261 oh god, no. I can't stand Peterson's boomerism anymore. His advice might be good on some occasions, but he is still promoting the same system that brought us most of our modern day problems.

[@_BirdOfGoodOmen]

In fact, one might even say they must Revolt Against the Modern World.

[@mostlydead3261]

​@@adonayshotwe needn't read their ideas from within their respective horizons rather we can appropriate what is good in them.. in this case, u are p much saying what they ended up saying in their last convo..

[@manimal2011]

Gio has swallowed the Hope Pill. The sweetest to swallow, the bitterest to expel.

[@leonhauptmann3301]

Pantera stream when

[@MarblyMan]

A proper theorycel video analysing Fishtank would be very entertaining. I actually prefer season 2 to season 1 but apparently that's controversial.

[@GiantArtProductions]

I did a whole content minded on season 1! also i think i could secure the jet interview but that lolbert coaler micheal malice beat me to the punch, im so pissed!

[@misterkefir]

My short but sweet analysis of Shitetank Season 1, 2 and every other one: It's a donkey doo-doo piece of utter coal garbagioza.

[@kurt.wilkinsongardendesign]

Check out Patrice Oneal's Black Phillip show. 12 episodes from 2006ish to 2010ish. Pure gold every single one of them. They are his best work and hilarious him disecting the female.viewpoint and arguing with women though a philosophical lens, with sound arguments. He is amazing!

[@korbin9906]

🎨

[@mostlydead3261]

esoteric analysis of Fish Tank S2 feat Jonathon Pageau when

[@sanriosonderweg]

Yea the people who morally postured over Lira lost credibility, it wasn't even in their own self interest.

[@tb8865]

As a digital artist who often uses a Wacom tablet....T_T

[@AK-hf3pf]

resident giocel reporting in.

[@DukeBluedevil70]

No Fish Tank S2 talk?

[@Adrenochromian]

Good.

[@comfylad1891]

It’s gay

[@facilegoose9347]

*President Tai 2024*

[@misterkefir]

THANK GOD!

[@TimMiller-n7k]

You finding one decent girl partially because of niche e-fame might be making you artificially optimistic about the state of male-female relationships. In actuality it is really, really, really bad out there.

[@VipoigClemens]

Although anecdotal, based on my personal experience and that of those close to me, romantic relationships that are more than transitory seem to have become a luxury. A luxury I'm grateful to have, and probably only have because I dodged the complete Tinderfication of dating by roughly a year or so. Unless something catastrophic happens that alters the mating and dating environment, I doubt things will get any better.

[@GiantArtProductions]

I know its bad out there, i do not discount the realities of the situation. it took me till the age of 30 to find someone.

[@AK-hf3pf]

> ignores the whole video > posts about woe is me > most thumbed up comment lol

[@misterkefir]

You can say that again..

[@TimMiller-n7k]

@@GiantArtProductionso7. I didn’t mean it negatively btw. Happy for ya.

[@hermestetrismegistus989]

1:11:00 Gio, IKYK about Carl Schmitt and you are quoting Adorno and critiquing art using the Frankfurt framework; you are remiss in not referencing Jameson's The Political Unconscious and simultaneously applying Schmittian decisionism concerning ezceptions. Jameson's insistence on the primacy of a work's political dimension, combined with Schmitt's characterization of what politics actually is, should tell you exactly what those people are trying to accomplish using said art. Pardon me for belaboring the point, but the choice to declare some work standalone art is a tool to develop ideological movements. Said movements, through evoking emotional reactions through a choice aesthetic repeatedly, establish that movement's aesthetic nomos and social norms. GG and ethics in vg journalism aside, art cannot help itself except be political; its political utility lies in being able to captivate an audience to support your ideas and aesthetics, and populate your movement.

[@GiantArtProductions]

well this is true, Jameson also talked about it in reference to cognitive mapping as a way of seeking a form of art criticism that reconciled it with it's conceptual political realities.

[@hermestetrismegistus989]

​@@GiantArtProductionsYes exactly, which is why Brian Eno was so prescient in his 1995 Wired interview where he said that the artist's new responsibility and path towards relevance in this age would be through the creation of (symbolic) connections (whose ideological/conceptual conclusions are engineered to be made inside individual audience members' heads) and curating them (by eliciting the appropriate emotional-which are also physical-responses where associative connections are meant to be strengthened or severed). This is functionally no different from giving a given embryonic art/political/ideological movement its own "natural philosophy," and it's done by eliciting machinic desire all the way down. The biggest problem with this is the patent lack of respect or sense of responsibility for the subjectivities of individual audience members; the art isn't creation of a liberatory Body without Organs, but the creation of a soup of Organs without Bodies (IYKYK). They are no longer people, but instruments. This will require newer, stronger art forms and media to reverse these conditions that have been imprinted upon the global audience, which right now has all the pleasing aesthetics of participating in trench warfare during WWI. IMO, if you truly care about not just creating pro-human, liberatory art, but creating antifragile, censorship-resistant methods of distribution and reproduction of the ideas within them, the only way to get there is to reference another Canadian that you probably will not like: Cory Doctorow. If you are open-minded enough, his talk on the coming war on general purpose computing, plus his other talk about platform decay and adversarial interoperability, will give you enough technical background, not only to understand the futility of regulating these technologies, but also how to create the art that subverts them, as well as their implications in the propagation of art.