Game: Krasnacht, a mod for Hearts of Iron 4
Post title: New Ideology idea: Situationism. Born out of the ashes of the Second Weltkrieg, this semi-anarchist movement of avant-garde artists believes in socialist art as the only road to victory against the Bourgeois & Reactionary nations known as "The Spectacle"
well the situationists were a thing irl and honestly this community probably has a lot more in common with the Situationist Internationale than most would care to admit. I don't know too much about them but I know they liked to use satire and sarcasm to pick apart capitalist society. They also liked to drink heavily because they knew too many grim truths lol
Honestly sounds like the forerunners to posters. People who get obsessed with the culture/individual expression/aesthetic of radicalism and confuse it for actual radicalism or accomplishing political goals. Capitalism is totally fine with people playing radical in art and media. It even makes money off it. Bowie? Dude made record companies millions/billions. Lynch? Part of the Hollywood canon now. Capital is threatened by none of it.
What you're saying is actually closer to the Situationist critique of capital being able to recuperate all symbolic opposition to it, trapping everyone in a hall of mirrors without any political effects. There's a reason they didn't go into pop culture and instead just made avant-garde films, split from each other and drank a lot
I get that at one point these people really were avant-garde, but has there been any development on those ideas since then? I would argue that quite a few of those people are definitely part of pop culture even if they weren't 50-60 years ago. Doesn't that kind of prove that even the avant-garde gets swallowed by capital or do they think you must always move towards the boundaries and never let yourself get consumed?
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