Anonymous
7/14/2025, 5:19:59 AM No.24548283
There's been this big "expose" (still to be seen how much of it is exaggerated or just gossip, so caveat to the below) by the ex-partner of the musical artist SOPHIE which, along with some of their other materials, suggests that they suffered from a similar Schopenhauerian pathology to several of the great absurdist artists and purposely took on and stuck with an ego-incongruent public persona and a pointlessly self-destructive vocation as a form of knowingly outrageous performance art exercising a will-to-death through creative expression (a 'triumph of art over logic') >>>/mu/127017822 . Their life reads so operatic yet monstrous it's like something straight out of Mishima or Kafka transplanted to today's garish hyperreal tech dystopia, and the weird part is how the deeper you look into their discography, their lyrics and presentation of human experiences as mechanical, and constructed, presented specifically within a late-stage-capitalist and transhumanist context that may itself blur the line between the abstract and nature, suggest an awareness of an entirely chaotic anti-/post-human cosmic horror underlying human reality.
This isn't anything to do with transgender people, it's something else even more extreme and with roots in older philosophical and romantic trends brought forward to our present time and place. Melville's "Ambiguities" is called to mind. I've seen a few other examples in my lifetime of people whose lives are arranged so well as to resemble a work of art in itself but this person takes it to a new level of psychodramatic intensity. There's something of Genet's morality to the act of wilfully destroying one's life in a humiliating yet hugely profitable performance art piece that functions both as expenditure toward continuity, a monument to the individual, the logical conclusion and ultimate subversion of a deeply empty and confused pop culture as a way to elevate it to the throne of sacrifice, and the rote naturally-determined course of life, it almost looks like the Dao recoiling back out of a particularly intense convolution in its dance. I don't even listen to this kind of music normally but it's such a coming-together of things that I'm genuinely impressed for the first time in a while, the way I would be by a wave caused by an enormous cliffface collapsing into the ocean.
I fear the 'trans' thing is going to get in the way of this being considered in its proper place among cultural discourse. Do you think I'm just on one or do you sense what I'm getting at? And what other recent real life people (past 50 years?) do you think qualify or exceed this spot as examples of /lit/ values/ideas lived out, expressed, or proven in our current reality?
This isn't anything to do with transgender people, it's something else even more extreme and with roots in older philosophical and romantic trends brought forward to our present time and place. Melville's "Ambiguities" is called to mind. I've seen a few other examples in my lifetime of people whose lives are arranged so well as to resemble a work of art in itself but this person takes it to a new level of psychodramatic intensity. There's something of Genet's morality to the act of wilfully destroying one's life in a humiliating yet hugely profitable performance art piece that functions both as expenditure toward continuity, a monument to the individual, the logical conclusion and ultimate subversion of a deeply empty and confused pop culture as a way to elevate it to the throne of sacrifice, and the rote naturally-determined course of life, it almost looks like the Dao recoiling back out of a particularly intense convolution in its dance. I don't even listen to this kind of music normally but it's such a coming-together of things that I'm genuinely impressed for the first time in a while, the way I would be by a wave caused by an enormous cliffface collapsing into the ocean.
I fear the 'trans' thing is going to get in the way of this being considered in its proper place among cultural discourse. Do you think I'm just on one or do you sense what I'm getting at? And what other recent real life people (past 50 years?) do you think qualify or exceed this spot as examples of /lit/ values/ideas lived out, expressed, or proven in our current reality?
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