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Title: RealSelf by angel_babe94 angel_babe94 says: How do I disengage with the brand economy while still being present on corporatised social media platforms that are not self conscious? angel_babe94 says: Personal brand construction through associative consumption. Consumption, in some groups, is a performative act. Performed through adornment, body positioning, speech, mannerisms, the semiotics used to photograph the self + its curated surroundings, and associated visual material through blogging/social media. Consuming a movie is not just watching it. In the economy of visibility no one knows if you’ve done something unless you’ve shown them. There is no point to consumption if it isn’t visible, we must signify it as part of our personal brand constructed for our peers for there to be any currency or value in consumption. The affective nature of branding relies on exchange and visible consumption. But, everyone already knows this I guess. Consumption is done performatively not just through watching but in a cycle of engaging then associating with a subject's personal constructed brand. angel_babe94 says: I was going to buy a smoothie today but I have no data and I won’t be able to instagram it. Lol whats the point anymore. angel_babe94 says: The smartphone revolutionised bodily positioning and visual semiotic codes of behaviour- head down now means I’m busy connecting @BernadetteCorporation. angel_babe94 says: The cycle of consumption is incomplete until consumption is performed on a public or semi public arena to contribute to self mythology as a continuous discourse aimed at commodification of the self. This extends into the arts community, no one would go to the Louvre if they couldn’t put their selfies on the stock exchange of social media visibility and brand construction. angel_babe94 uploaded a photo: lolselfie.jpg
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angel_babe94 says: We are now the third (moist and sometimes mobile) medium @LukeMunn15. The ultimate corporate gas, limited by the flesh but infinitely recycled. Snapped in 7 megapixels flowing through public and private spaces transmutated from 2GB of nutritional body data into a personal brand in an online economy, semiocapitalism in web 3.0. Self image is an investment @AmaliaUllman13. angel_babe94 says: Isn’t this just conspicuous consumption or Keeping Up With The Jetsons revisited? Under late capitalism we live in an entirely visual culture. Is Instagram the purest form of social currency in visual exchanges? The gym is the new factory for our moist media commodified selfie/self @MarkSimpson12 #instafit #health #fitness #progress. The brand economy and consumption cycle is neither purely good nor evil, it upholds a classist, sexist and racist paradigm based on neoliberalism and commercialisation which has shaped our contemporary Western subjectivity drenched in leisure culture and narcissism. But lol idk. angel_babe94 says: *Keeping Up With The Kardashians…
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Genesis A pertinent wench.
MEDUSA Why have you come to kill me? PERSEUS You turn men to stone! MEDUSA No! They look at me and turn into stone! PERSEUS So Gorgons don’t kill people, people kill people? (Vanessa Place)
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_ Let him hammer a prayer; gift Himself.
Praise be Μῶμος Fourth Finger. Thus spoke the Divine[masc.] and a vessel was birthed. (In the ancient scriptures this page was kept blank for printing conventions.) From His offering, Heaven bequeathed a pin-cushion to bear the weight of Man in all His Might.
Then the LORD God made a woman from the rib he had taken out of the man, and he brought her to the man.¹ Lifting His mask only enough for a clear assessment, Μῶμος in His grand judgement gave Man a divine tick.
The deficient female. Emotionally mobile as an exhibition of her incomprehension of guilt, shame, fear, insecurity - a deficiency disease (as diagnosed by a gold sheathed dildo). Female can never know the tragedy of male, the glorious walking abortion of heaven. Y is an incomplete X. Scheide / Schade. Man wrote Woman. And on this platform He braved His greatest social crusade. The holy man waged war on love and friendship, a mode of colonisation manicured by the tip of his sword. Having drowned the world in the sweat musk of male, male gave us an alternative: Great Art and Culture. [2015: male cum. media “attempts to solve his dilemma of not being able to live not being male by constructing a highly artificial world in which the male is heroised.² ]
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In great feats male painted female, even on the ceilings of the holiest churches (tits at the closest point to God), when it would have been easier to spear her on rotisserie. God thanked male, and granted male immortality. Male sculpted female in Gaia’s rock, then polished her smooth enough that her gestures became animate under his holy MASTERful execution. Male carved male in Earth itself, and history fought (fights) for His maintenance. (In darkness woman is still shuddering in a stone pit.) Even Life itself formed a dependency on Gaia, singing praise to Her serenities, to aïve to her titanic Her mask of beauty, n secret; under the cities, under the mountains, even under the oceans and shores, Gaia’s interior is a hot molten core.
[NEW ZEALAND MAN, mid 30s, wearing green striped polo shirt with cargo shorts, briefly walks through the city’s gallery on a Sunday afternoon, strolling past colonial histories in admiration of the resistance of time by the French Chateau architecture (wishes someone (else) would immortalise him). Glances at a statue: abs, locks, biceps. Attheendoftheday, leaves with a selfie posed in front of an Italianate Neo-Renaissance pillar; twirled decor strangling the foundations of culture itself by a reluctance to accept its own death.] _
Woman as an immortal whore hanged in a golden frame in the centre of a beige wall. Her gestures ventriloquised by an intellect[Divine.] attempting to place itself within the absence of context. Torturously hung to wither under the penetrative sneer of the middle-man, who does not know woman but as the scholar’s slut.
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apotheosis. Man with all His Might and Muscle, oh man, oh man, gave woman His all-encompassing pride (ego’s marrow), enough of it to weigh woman, the vessel of man, down into the opaqueness of Poseidon himself (man returns fatefully to man on the corpse of a female perpetrator).
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Gallery an esoteric circus of symbols; deepness (males filling frames with empty words (nothing to talk about), as means of avoiding responsibility or confronting his own animalism³). Gallery substituting the church - scholars respectfully bowing their heads towards Father. (Repression in the I of God.) Obscurity Evasiveness Incomprehensibility Indirectness Ambiguity Boredom = Depth and Brilliance² _
¹G enesis 2:22 ² S CUM Manifesto p24 ³ f ucking
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K I M K A R D A S H I A N I S T H E M O S T I M P O R TA N T ARTIST OF THE 21ST CENTURY Kim
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Kardashian is an is a concept. is body. is a mother. is a business. is a mogul. is a wife.
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In a post feminist society she is the ideal. Within the media she exists as an overexposed, narcissistic waste, which feeds off a misogynistic gaze.#equality #weekendwarriors
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Kim Kardashian represents the American dream.
Her social media is never not on point. Kim Kardashian’s brand stays relevant through the constant reappraisal of her image in corporatised social media, by sharing content which is personal, alongside content which is merely selling products. Kardashian’s performance is nuanced, she both represents and mocks hierarchical structures which place boundaries around women’s bodies and their role within society.
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Kim Kardashian is performs the role
the virgin mary as she of wife and mother.
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Image Stills from Jive (2015) and Welcome home Shawdy (2014/15) Orr Amran OA Wants and needs are different things. Eating disorders flare up Katherine Botten KB Hi girls sleep outside Cristine Brache CB Jessica Francis JF Patriot girl Jodie Salmond (front cover) Penny Rose Thomas RT Tex t La Medusa An Dress. AD RealSelf angel_babe94 MM Kim Kardashian is a performed role Hana Aoake HA