lamphoera:

the “literature vs fanfiction” arguments continue to be very insane to me because the conflict largely seems based around what i can only describe as an incorrect set of parameters, which means i don’t think it’s possible to engage with the “discourse” on the terms they’re presented as having and manage to say anything all that intelligent or productive

this is also how i feel about the “minimalism vs maximalism” thing except that one has a very loud overtone of “holy shit you guys are so easily tricked by trad chuds who just make stuff up about art history and philosophy” and also “no aesthetic doesn’t have a connection to politics but politicizing pure aesthetic in order to make adopting aesthetics a form of political action is not actual meaningful political action and distracts from the actual affecting systems in play” which seems very obvious so it arguably pisses me off more