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‘“Identity” is the new junk food for the dispossessed, globalization’s fodder for the disenfranchised.’ — Rem Koolhaas in Junkspace. Public spaces and airwaves are now basically full of this junk food.
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Whenever I sense that the main purpose of a supposedly creative work is to represent an identity in public, I tune out. All origin, no story.
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Unless of course it’s a Star Trek alien with a funny forehead and a skin condition, in which case I’m happy to watch people represent. Weird how all the panspermia species except us have serious skin conditions and/or forehead mutations
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All the majority groups acquired a taste for this junk food from the marginalized groups and now TV is 80% identity representation. Both the programming and the advertising. Both centered and marginalized. And both free to air and prestige.
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There’s like a Heisenberg uncertainty principle here. Identity representation is like position. Story is like momentum. Can’t drive uncertainty to zero on both at once. Strong representation means vague, diffuse story.
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Hmm if identity is junk food what’s good food? 🤔 Identity subversion should be a side effect of “good food” but can’t be the main thing. Identity violation like narrative violation.
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