The vision, if you want to call it that, presented in this video is cheap, superficial, inconsistent and hardly capable of convincing, seducing or deceiving anyone. But that's exactly the point: Trump doesn't need to convince anyone, he can use his raw power. The video shows how little he cares 2/ - ThreadSky

bildoperationen.bsky.social • 1 day ago

The vision, if you want to call it that, presented in this video is cheap, superficial, inconsistent and hardly capable of convincing, seducing or deceiving anyone. But that's exactly the point: Trump doesn't need to convince anyone, he can use his raw power. The video shows how little he cares
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mfzh.bsky.social•1 day ago

The Saudis and Qataris are gonna absolutely love this 💜🏳️‍🌈

bildoperationen.bsky.social•1 day ago

Unlike 20th century propaganda, #platformrealism is not an aesthetic of seduction, but of brutal carelessness and blatant ignorance. The power of a video like this lies in the sloppiness of its means - anyone could produce it, without expertise, without investment, without even watching it
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bildoperationen.bsky.social•1 day ago

Pointing out AI-induced glitches and hallucinations like the bearded dancers therefore seems to me to be beside the point. Such traditional critique of representation is helpless when those in power are no longer concerned with the details of representation, but only with ›flooding the zone‹
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cdnmarks.bsky.social•1 day ago

Das ist ein exzellenter Punkt, den du da machst. Danke für die Einordnung!

felidaes.bsky.social•1 day ago

I didn't even notice the beared dancers at first. But I agree. Of course, it's an AI glitch, but so what? Mickey Mouse could just as well have been dancing instead.

bildoperationen.bsky.social•1 day ago

Instead of focusing on such inconsistencies, we should recognize the extent to which this video presents its neocolonial vision, which necessarily involves acts of ethnic cleansing on a large scale, as something banal and ordinary, a shady business opportunity rooted in online grifter culture
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cdnmarks.bsky.social•1 day ago

Even more so, since the distorted representation of whatever is shown, by virtue of these AI glitches and kitschy aesthetics, develops enough distance to any sort of realism to make the best out of it's subsequent ambivalence. It's uncanny, too unreal to be real, but still very efficacious.

bildoperationen.bsky.social•1 day ago

In my view, this is also an aesthetic (or rather: anesthetic) effect of AI slop and #PlatformRealism: it makes the most horrible and unimaginable things look like something mundane and commonplace, it gives images promoting abhorrent crimes the look of holiday cards and cheap clickbait ads
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starlingm.bsky.social•1 day ago

Agree with almost everything, thank you for contextualizing. Not sure about the bearded dancer being glitches though - looked like some perfidious kind of mocking to me. Anyway, even if these are glitches, they're in the clip deliberately.

michellehenning.bsky.social•1 day ago

It’s also kitsch, and I guess that could be one definition of kitsch. But I don’t mean to suggest that as an explanation in itself, I think you’re right that there is something horrific about this kind of platform realism, which can’t be reduced to old categories.

doriantaylor.com•1 day ago

i was trying to remember who was the "kitsch is pro-regime" philosopher the other day

masswerk.at•1 day ago

I think, there's a new quality to this, which may be important to note: a certain placeholder-like quality that is about all of this. The kitsch seems to reinforce this, just as the placeholder-like quality seems to leave no other way of presentation. Especially, given the fast-economics
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masswerk.at•1 day ago

requirements of the production to suit a discourse, which is as fast and sloppy as the audivisual drop. Similar to other strategies, it's meant to disrupt the discourse by the fastness of its sheer existence. And by this, kitsch legitimizes the implied cruel realities and prepositions
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lauralaa.bsky.social•1 day ago

This disregard for detail then seems to be fully part, or at least supportive of the point. Attention to detail would require differentiation. But this, as you say, is about totality (totalitarianism), not about particularity (which has no place in this vision).

chmarchlewitz.bsky.social•1 day ago

Glaube, die bearded dancers mit der grünen Kopfbinde der Hamas sind aus der Sicht von Faschisten einfach der Versuch, den Feind zu verhöhnen. "Ihr seid keine echten Männer", "ihr werdet für Geld für uns tanzen müssen", etwas in der Art.

bildoperationen.bsky.social•1 day ago

Ich glaube, es geht eher darum, uns alle zu trollen. Und das funktioniert. Die Nachlässigkeit, mit der das gemacht ist, steht im umgekehrt proportionalen Verhältnis zur Aufmerksamkeit, die es generiert

olivenolivenol.bsky.social•1 day ago

Danke, genau das.

chmarchlewitz.bsky.social•1 day ago

Der Blick auf den Gegner ist so superficial, pubertär und hohl wie alles andere auch.

piethansen.bsky.social•1 day ago

Beides zusammen ist so deprimierend: Pubertäre Fantasie als einer der machtvollsten Akteure der Weltpolitik.

hotelamnesia.bsky.social•15 hours ago

I think you’re partly wrong. I do think that the far right is in fact seduced by the visuals and what they represent (however ludicrous that all might be to sane people).

bildoperationen.bsky.social•15 hours ago

You're probably right. I wonder though whether it's the visual or the demonstration of sheer cynicism and raw power that's attractive to the fascist mindset

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