Love the shoutout for Another World! Cheryl is the best. If anyone in NYC wants to check out a really dope community space, I highly recommend Another World. A/C, free wifi, free snacks, and cool events like political education. Also def donate if you’re able so you can help sustain the space!
As a lifelong comic book fan, I feel like this is where I’m at in the moment as well. I love comics and heroes because they find ways to endlessly inspire and to challenge what the meaning of being good is in modern life (when they’re written correctly). But when that inspiration does not spur us to act righteously in our own lives, it all just feels so…hollow. Alan Moore famously hates superheroes now because of how it infantilizes its readers and allows them to never grow or take on the challenges of their own life, and as much as I want to disagree with him…is he really wrong? Thank you for vocalizing partially how I feel as a leftist fan of superheroics, really well written and thought provoking as always
Idk if you've read it, but Model Minority short story by Cory Doctorow in Radicalized anthology also touches on the themes you talk about here with a Superman like character. Specifically on how he is an alien and the whiteness bestowed upon him by society is conditional on him being complicit in with the status quo
This same problem occurs when trying to take real life inspiration from historical figures. What are we to make of john brown in kansas. Are we willing to make the same sacrifice. Will it make a difference
I love the part about how our heroes are all fictional. I think lot of why we don’t have any traditional heroes because we are overall the bad guys. We have sports heroes who succeed at eliminating their opponents. We need to view anti establishment musicians as heroes more.
Love the shoutout for Another World! Cheryl is the best. If anyone in NYC wants to check out a really dope community space, I highly recommend Another World. A/C, free wifi, free snacks, and cool events like political education. Also def donate if you’re able so you can help sustain the space!
Here’s the link to donate: https://www.gofundme.com/f/egz2e-help-make-another-world-possible?fbclid=PAQ0xDSwLgo4lleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABp0k3eZJXm5dowXHJ9K86w9zw26zIG2qwEtilo_jdoUXtjcWB2eWMU06CNJqA_aem_-D_RGVQ6_phqGWZqAK-5tA
I’ll be at today’s event at 1pm if you’re in the area and free come through! It’s a talk with Torkil Lauesen, a Danish Marxist.
I also really enjoyed the entire article. Now I gotta see Superman.
As a lifelong comic book fan, I feel like this is where I’m at in the moment as well. I love comics and heroes because they find ways to endlessly inspire and to challenge what the meaning of being good is in modern life (when they’re written correctly). But when that inspiration does not spur us to act righteously in our own lives, it all just feels so…hollow. Alan Moore famously hates superheroes now because of how it infantilizes its readers and allows them to never grow or take on the challenges of their own life, and as much as I want to disagree with him…is he really wrong? Thank you for vocalizing partially how I feel as a leftist fan of superheroics, really well written and thought provoking as always
The photo captions are perfect lmao. Amazing work as always, Alex
“Kevin spacey as himself” 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
“spiritually colonized by paperwork and process” 🔥
Zizek mentioned!! 🙌
These really help with my Sunday scaries and always get me thinking. Great work!
Idk if you've read it, but Model Minority short story by Cory Doctorow in Radicalized anthology also touches on the themes you talk about here with a Superman like character. Specifically on how he is an alien and the whiteness bestowed upon him by society is conditional on him being complicit in with the status quo
This same problem occurs when trying to take real life inspiration from historical figures. What are we to make of john brown in kansas. Are we willing to make the same sacrifice. Will it make a difference
I love the part about how our heroes are all fictional. I think lot of why we don’t have any traditional heroes because we are overall the bad guys. We have sports heroes who succeed at eliminating their opponents. We need to view anti establishment musicians as heroes more.
OK now I guess I'll go see it! Thanks