Is this what Marx was talking about?

No, it's what Kierkegaard, Debord and Baudrillard were talking about.

Marx is an interlocutor between the three, though.

Vaporwave really is the perfect music for our time.

Pokemon Go is corporately manufactured retro revival, just like what vaporwave and its derivatives satirize.

Is it bad that I unironically like some of the music even though it's supposed to be satire?

youtube.com/watch?v=ZXEsBSrGe0o

Not at all

Yes, but I do too. Sometimes it's just some chill stuff with a unique vibe to put on in the background. No shame.

IT WAS JUST A LITTLE MISTAKE.

I've never listened to this. Please explain you meme.

dummymag.com/features/essay-invest-in-vaporwave-futures

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So it's ironically shit?

2PoMo4Us

Imagine being in 2016 an never having heard of vaporwave, what a fucking plebe.

Actually, that article is not very elucidating if you have no idea what the genre is. Never mind.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vaporwave

It's been getting very popular among "normies" this year, particularly on Facebook. No idea why.

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we chillwave now

lmao @ u instinct cuck

Vaporwave is enjoyable because it taps into a powerful nostalgia for the late 1980s and 1990s, where capitalism seemed less menacing and the liberal dream was still possible. Plus the cartoons were better.

I'm scared to think of normies listening to vaporwave. I didn't think people would like it unless they had some level of class consciousness/perception of the failure of contemporary capitalism.

Haha oh wow
It's nostalgic because you were a child, period.

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To be fair, one of the aspects of Vaporwave that was played up at the start was the commercialism. All vaporwave videos are to be set to commercials and feel like slightly drunk commercial/elevator music because that's apparently aesthetic. I think it's a fair thing to say that if the 2000s had been better than the Clinton years for the average person, vaporwave wouldn't have existed.

Oh don't get me wrong, I appreciate what the artists are trying to express, but its popularity has come from the nostalgia of it.
Yes, lots of people enjoy it for the reasons you mentioned, for sure, but most people don't "get it"

I mean, yeah. I doubt people born earlier than 1985 would 'get' Vaporwave. But for those of us who did live through the fever dream of the 1990s, it has a powerful effect.

Oh yeah, most people like it because it reminds them of pokemon and crystal pepsi and all of that and wouldn't examine it any more than that at all.

Deploying tactical ice pick

it all makes sense now

TrotskyMyst?

It is the intelligentsia team

Permanent evolution lads

Nah you got it all wrong, Vaporwave is enjoyable because it ironically celebrates the fact that capitalism will be the doom of the human race.

So what team would Marxism be?

top kek

Blue.
Instinct is all about muh social darwinism
Valor is all about muh spooks
Mystic is all about intellect

Team blue representing

I wish I could catch anything else than pidgeys, rattatas and psyducks though.

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Red army is strongest tbqh famalam.

^this.

Is team valor a bunch of fashies?

10/10 Holla Forums

There's a definite cyberpunk feel in the making to the whole thing, but what's most interesting to me about Pokemon Go is when I take this with reference to sf0.org/

It was a "game" based in San Francisco - idk how long it's been going on for but it's kind of inactive now - based on the ideas of the Situationists, particularly their conceptualizations of play and psychogeography. The "players" in the game would have an "avatar" on the website, and would complete tasks in the real world to earn points. They earned points by documenting their activities in an interesting manner, and the tasks in the game were purposely written to be open to interpretation or difficult to accomplish. The idea behind this being that people would go outside and engage with the physical space of San Francisco in a creative, artistic way through free play, and bring themselves out of the media spectacle (of video games, for example) by creating situations IRL.

I can see a similarity with the Pokemon Go app. There's been all sorts of neat stories in the news lately about people meeting friends, or finding bodies, or doing stupid shit like crossing the street without looking, or getting mugged. These are all things that people wouldn't normally do if they were just at home, sitting on their asses watching TV or playing regular video games. It's made people go outside and walk around, go to places they might not ever go to.

But, unlike SF0, this whole process is done within the confines of a multi-billion dollar media franchise, and through the technological apparatuses of Google, smartphones, and the developers code and servers. It's not really something were the player is given creative freedom, and really, they're not even engaging in free play in any sense. They're being lead around like zombies from one pokemon to the next, their physical space being colonized by the Spectacle.

I think it's a really neat idea but the circumstances of this first popular breakthrough in augmented reality are also troubling.

I couldn't quite pin down what has bothered me about Pokémon Go, but I think this is it. The no creative freedom thing. Everyone will have the same experience; the endless racking up numbers and lining Google's pockets.

The motivation to go outside stems from such dull incentive.

(I should note I am way into Pokémon and very excited about Sun/Moon. But Go just repels me.)

but ironically so

That was a based post user, thanks for that. And then you tied it in with the spectacle at the end?

Marvelous, the kind of analysis we need.

Instinct is the answer.

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it's fun though

youtube.com/watch?v=N8RtqxGM8TQ

The discussion of vaporwave is not at all off-topic. In fact, it's intimately related to what's going on here.

Accurate summary?

dummymag.com/features/adam-harper-vaporwave

Very interesting to find one of the pioneers of vaporwave is a fuggin gommie

Thanks famrades

That was hot af. Sauce?

I'm sure it is (I'm consciously avoiding it until the hype dies off to see whether it has any lasting power beyond being a fad), but that doesn't mean it shouldn't be critiqued.

It really doesn't have a strong connection. The two things are qualitatively different, even if vaporwave engages with some of the same sorts of questions that Pokemon Go raises.

Anime is Golden Boy, song is: youtu.be/Gg7PHR60bGg, an edit of soundcloud.com/lowtee/thuggin-feels-good