Like it or not there is more genuine scholarship, more true poetic spirit, more Homeric thymos among anonymous, vaguely right-wing internet posters than within academia and the institutional art world
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This is an indictment of academia & the art world, not an endorsement of online racists who alternate between posting whitmanesque tweets and racial slurs, you idiots
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Replying to @ElijahDelMedigo
There is in fact good work being done in academia, you just have to wade through shit to find it. The ratio of papers I've encountered that were written to pad someone's resume vs. because someone had something to say isn't worse than the internet.
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Replying to @xstntlprvrt69
I think, with the internet, it's easier to filter. You can hang out with a bunch of autodidactic, fringe intellectuals doing lots of interesting stuff... or you can watch a bunch of howler monkeys scream at each other on reddit and blucheck twitter.
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Replying to @xstntlprvrt69
this is exactly the response the tweet was designed to provoke, and yet people are assuming it was an unqualified endorsement of online racists called "jackkerouac88"
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Replying to @ElijahDelMedigo
There are some really smart and interesting right wing weirdos. I don't actually interact with the WN88 troll crowd very much, so its easy for me to steelman the online right.
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Replying to @xstntlprvrt69
Like, I thought BAP's book was good and funny! His twitter feed has been a little much for me lately though, and his fan base are kind of unoriginal.
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Replying to @xstntlprvrt69
his book was excellent but insane (did you read my review?) but his fans are passe and boring my tweet was referring to a very small clique of internet posters, and even then it was tongue-in-cheek, designed to provoke, and intentionally bordering on parody
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BAP is like Crimethinc for reactionaries
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