Made a good argument for consciousness.
- Hays code realism is on point. Best part.
- Transgressive realism and dysthrophic realism are both confused, maybe he's being cynical with how everthing ia co-opted by reactionary capital? Doug Ruskoff the Merchants of cool documentary covered this phenomenon with mtv, test audiences and mtv. This is merely central institutions trying to resonate, you still have your romantic realism on a indie level.
- Is he nostaliging of the home of Classical realism
More of the American Jingo realism of GURNS.
- Who claims the aesthetic of this category of romantic realism? I'm more a gothic in the aesthetic realm, yet here's to a category exclusive to partisanship. Decide their entitlement to dictate women's bodies, its always weird, they are reminded they are not in control. Self-flagellation, and simply not that note-worthy, considering the Stellers blade and other designs not convening to that nuclear family expectation.
(That lara croft is unflattering comparison btw)
Pretty commissions and at least superhero stuff happening, I can see.
How are labour is made to follow along the conditions of rule, into a commodified community to then circulate new aesthetics like this one.
Now for my own which I'll coin in aesthetical tastes. Here's my own taste.
Foundherent Realism or Gothic
Crosswordism
Shall the area of our immaterial reflect the materials anew, and bring a shine of new pragma and dogma. I wish it well. As originate from a classical past and reunify it from it's iconoclastic trappings. (That's from Schott Mclout
From the sublimely mawkish, compared to it's abject horrors. For they bring into our own urban fantasy they reflect our areas.