niebezimienny posted:

He posted, but he is not going to post any more...

Prefuse posted:

whats your favorite kaiju monster SMG

Extra Koos posted:

Now then, SMG:

Have you heard Zižek's point about the perniciousness of slavery? He says that a slave, though in bondage, will say and believe that he's free. That it's his choice to serve, and that if he really wanted to, he could stop. Zižek concludes that it's not the chains that actually keep him in place, and prevent revolution, but his insistence on his own autonomy.

You create "oppositional readings," where you ignore the obvious intent, how the images are likely to be received, and even the images themselves, in order to say every film is a satire of the liberal-capitalist system; you, despite all external reality, insist that the opposite reading is true. You are the slave Zižek spoke of.

The Flying Fish posted:

smg do you know any good movies where thousands of niggers are brutally slaughtered with bazookas and machine guns?

SuperMechagodzilla posted:

To dispel some persistent myths: my writing is based entirely on stuff I read for free during my spare time. I usually post from work, during breaks. Jokes about 'Death Of The Author' are somewhat misguided because I subscribe to a sort of auteur theory.


Gamera.


The point you refer to is very basically about the critique of ideology. A woman in a patriarchal society, for example, may believe her actions to be entirely 'natural'. She may celebrate the freedom to dress 'slutty', or the freedom to dress conservatively - while entirely overlooking the broader exploitation of women, the reduction of women to a lower class, class conflict itself. As a more extreme example, Tumblr fights 'intolerance' by celebrating the freedom to gently caress dogs and be a character from Homestuck.

You presume that I believe myself free of liberal capitalism. I'm not. I argue for being conscious of unfreedom.

What you wrote does not make much sense to me otherwise, unless you've really confused 'oppositional' with 'opposite' - thinking that oppositional reading is just a matter of saying up is down and water is dry. Maybe good is bad? Really makes you think....


Sure: World War Z

Daikatana Ritsu posted:

SuperMechagodzilla posted:

I can't go back to GBS. I can't!

Daikatana Ritsu posted:

write a fanfic about Ralp getting beat up during jr high basketball practice so hard he barfed up his Hi-C or STFU

The Flying Fish posted:

Daikatana Ritsu posted:

write a fanfic about Ralp getting beat up during jr high basketball practice so hard he barfed up his Hi-C or STFU

SuperMechagodzilla posted:

FyaD is my home now, but many things are new to me. Who is ralph?

SuperMechagodzilla posted:

FyaD is my home now, but many things are new to me. Who is ralph?

SuperMechagodzilla posted:

To dispel some persistent myths: my writing is based entirely on stuff I read for free during my spare time. I usually post from work, during breaks. Jokes about 'Death Of The Author' are somewhat misguided because I subscribe to a sort of auteur theory.


Gamera.


The point you refer to is very basically about the critique of ideology. A woman in a patriarchal society, for example, may believe her actions to be entirely 'natural'. She may celebrate the freedom to dress 'slutty', or the freedom to dress conservatively - while entirely overlooking the broader exploitation of women, the reduction of women to a lower class, class conflict itself. As a more extreme example, Tumblr fights 'intolerance' by celebrating the freedom to gently caress dogs and be a character from Homestuck.

You presume that I believe myself free of liberal capitalism. I'm not. I argue for being conscious of unfreedom.

What you wrote does not make much sense to me otherwise, unless you've really confused 'oppositional' with 'opposite' - thinking that oppositional reading is just a matter of saying up is down and water is dry. Maybe good is bad? Really makes you think....


Sure: World War Z

SuperMechagodzilla posted:

The point you refer to is very basically about the critique of ideology. A woman in a patriarchal society, for example, may believe her actions to be entirely 'natural'. She may celebrate the freedom to dress 'slutty', or the freedom to dress conservatively - while entirely overlooking the broader exploitation of women, the reduction of women to a lower class, class conflict itself. As a more extreme example, Tumblr fights 'intolerance' by celebrating the freedom to gently caress dogs and be a character from Homestuck.

You presume that I believe myself free of liberal capitalism. I'm not. I argue for being conscious of unfreedom.

SuperMechagodzilla posted:

Sure: World War Z

El Kooserino posted:

Then why would any product of a liberal capitalist system be an indictment of that system, instead of an endorsement? When you choose to read films that way you're denying not only the abstract ideology surrounding them, but the concrete fact of how they're widely received, all to assert your own freedom as a supposedly revolutionary viewer.

Big Anime Fan Here posted:

It almost seems like this guy who gave real thought to the transformers movie might be stupid

SuperMechagodzilla posted:

FyaD is my home now, but many things are new to me. Who is ralph?

SuperMechagodzilla posted:

FyaD is my home now, but many things are new to me. Who is ralph?

Rev. Sam posted:

is transformars getting a reboot?

SuperMechagodzilla posted:

FyaD is my home now, but many things are new to me. Who is ralph?

El Kooserino posted:

Then why would any product of a liberal capitalist system be an indictment of that system, instead of an endorsement? When you choose to read films that way you're denying not only the abstract ideology surrounding them, but the concrete fact of how they're widely received, all to assert your own freedom as a supposedly revolutionary viewer.

SuperMechagodzilla posted:

By identifying a given film as a product of the capitalist system, and an endorsement of capitalist ideology, you yourself are already performing an oppositional reading. If you disagree with that endorsement, you can point to the film as an example, criticizing the system yourself. You're doing exactly what I do: appropriating the film.

The only difference is that I don't worry about 'does the director think correct' or 'do general audiences think correct'. This misidentifies the source of social antagonism as 'stupid people', 'Michael Bay', and/or 'Transformers movies' - as if eliminating these things, if you even could, would solve anything. Instead, why not appropriate the films by performing oppositional readings? Read them as satire by disagreeing with them, holding them up as examples.

Identifying and criticizing ideology does not 'deny ideology'(?), but it also does not does instantly 'make you free'. It just makes you aware. In They Live, putting on the glasses just gives Nada a headache, at first.

Rev. Sam posted:

heavy heavy stuff

catdynamite posted:

SMg, can you please analyze this comic?

SuperMechagodzilla posted:

It's about racism. Even though the cat is no longer in the way, the witch is still disgusted by its laziness. Even though she wields magic powers, she is deeply unhappy and blames her unhappiness on the 'piece of poo poo'.

SuperMechagodzilla posted:

By identifying a given film as a product of the capitalist system, and an endorsement of capitalist ideology, you yourself are already performing an oppositional reading. If you disagree with that endorsement, you can point to the film as an example, criticizing the system yourself. You're doing exactly what I do: appropriating the film.

The only difference is that I don't worry about 'does the director think correct' or 'do general audiences think correct'. This misidentifies the source of social antagonism as 'stupid people', 'Michael Bay', and/or 'Transformers movies' - as if eliminating these things, if you even could, would solve anything. Instead, why not appropriate the films by performing oppositional readings? Read them as satire by disagreeing with them, holding them up as examples.

Identifying and criticizing ideology does not 'deny ideology'(?), but it also does not instantly 'make you free'. It just makes you aware. In They Live, putting on the glasses just gives Nada a headache, at first.

SuperMechagodzilla posted:

It's about racism. Even though the cat is no longer in the way, the witch is still disgusted by its laziness. Even though she wields magic powers, she is deeply unhappy and blames her unhappiness on the 'piece of poo poo'.

Twisty of Fate posted:

To my knowledge, cats are notoriously lazy creatures. This comic illustrates that even when supernatural powers are applied, cats will still do whatever they want.

Davelord Cheeto posted:

gas and ban the OP. gas and ban rev. sam. de-admin ralp and turn him over to the police, as he is a known sex offender and literally a pedophile.

SuperMechagodzilla posted:

The only difference is that I don't worry about 'does the director think correct' or 'do general audiences think correct'. This misidentifies the source of social antagonism as 'stupid people', 'Michael Bay', and/or 'Transformers movies' - as if eliminating these things, if you even could, would solve anything.

SuperMechagodzilla posted:

Instead, why not appropriate the films by performing oppositional readings? Read them as satire by disagreeing with them, holding them up as examples.