/lit/ - Literature

>>11134038
invisible man is about as close as you'll get. its set in a different time though so the commentary and social issues are different

>>11134058
Thanks my intellectual anon connection

>>11134038
Culture Industry

>>11134101
Thanks anon

>>11134038
Holy shit he got fat.

>>11134058
this

>>11134219
you know he's bent over, right? you can see the muscle definition on the side

Colson Whitehead, Danzy Senna, Paul Beatty especially.

>>11134252
>you can see the muscle definition on the side
Where? On his spaghetti arms? Or his grotesque lumpy belly?

>>11134252
>the muscle definition

>>11134038
Why Am I getting a Mishima vibe? he isn't shooting himself..

>>11134038
>you're not consuming this thoughtlessly are you, anon?

>>11134038
Why does he pose like that? The Jim Crow allusion seems like too big of a stretch.

>>11134473
he's implying that whites who shoot blacks are a bunch of puffed up pussies

>>11134473
watching the video helps

Waiting for Godot

>>11134419
>he isn't shooting himself..
In a manner of speaking, yes he is.

>>11134565
Deep

>>11134589
I'm not trying to be like that. Just move on.

>>11134101
Except Adorno was against music be used like that

>>11134038
semi-ironic abstract social commentary with biblical references? probably James Joyce but Italo Calvino and Umberto Eco are also acceptable

>>11134219
I have a big gay black man crush for Donald glover that begins with Troy in Community but i'm not gay I do actually like vagina I would just also be open to him cuddling up with me as we read the first draft for Atlanta season 3 episode 1 together

>>11134473
I don't think the Jim Crow thing is a stretch but if you think so, maybe you could just say his movement is overly flamboyant and playful anyway? His dancing in the video is pretty sassy in a tongue-in-cheek way

>>11134038
I really dig the video, but the song is terrible

>>11135043
I love both to be honest. I don't think it's a stretch that the lyrics of the song are ironic and that he's almost parodying the triplets flow trope you see a lot in popular trap music. I kind of wish he highlighted a little more of what he thought was wrong in America in a way that subverted expectations, I know Donald is capable of that, but at the moment if it wasn't for the music video being accompanied by the music, you probably wouldn't pick up on it being ironic. The song doesn't do too much really. I still enjoy it though.

>>11134038
Drinking Sasprilluh an gettin whooped?

>>11135091
>if it wasn't for the music video being accompanied by the music, you probably wouldn't pick up on it being ironic.

This is my main issue with the song regardless of its message. If it can't stand alone without a video and make sense, is it actually a song or an audio-visual work? You can already tell it's going to be played unironically and people are going to enjoy it without caring about its message. It's a convenient way to appear that you're critiquing something while also appealing to the tastes and sensibilities of the masses. Combined with the fact that Glover is about to appear in Solo, I can't help but think that he's now being allowed to succeed by the entertainment industry. No one really gave a fuck about Because the Internet.

>>11134038
abortion clinics and American blacks giving all their monies to Democrat party times.
>gas gon be cheapa nigga

I’m always skeptical when “social critique” is completely accepted by the majority of the society it’s critiquing.

It's really not that deep, it's just shit going on in the background that can be taken a number of different ways letting people decide. I really don't get what's deep about it? Hasn't this sort of message been done to death already?

>>11135556
>Hasn't this sort of message been done to death already?
Yeah, but used to have HOPE, now we have a Nazi president.

>>11135596
Do you even know what a Nazi is or you like using buzzwords?

I feel like this video is a government psy-op designed to make us angry and hateful against America. I'm really tired of people who think that disparaging where they live is the same thing as making it better.

>>11134038
mein kampf

>>11134491
>puffed up pussies
mmmm, puffy pusy

>>11135601
He's clearly memeing, don't take 4chan so seriously.

>>11135655
>4chan isn't srs bsns

>>11135496
this. also why am i being lambasted with all this shit i am australian. the gatekeepers need more region lock on their content. all the aussies who are plugged in are having american culture war nonsense downloaded into their brainspace.

>>11135701
lol..australia's only 'culture' is getting eatin alive by beasts that would be subjugated and put on exhibition by a zoo in any civilized land.

>>11135738
so fuckin epic. based wacky australia meme!!

>>11135496
What are you skeptical of? That it isn't sincere? That people aren't interpreting right?

Erasure

great book

>>11135496
pathological contrarianism

>>11135647
If you believe everything is fine, you won't really be inclined to change things.

>>11136343
..but everything is fine..the animals don't even realize how few zoo-keepers there are, or that they can cooperate for a common goal without marrying each other. America is comfy bro.. just stfu and let the animals breed and abort themselves out of existence.

>>11134473
just negro stuff thats why it was observed back in jim crowe