Fuck Content
read this first as pastagang wants to expand on it
fuck content!!
what is content?
Content is slop or art that’s used as a way to cure boredom and make profits by (something here). It’s used as a distraction from life (make of this what you will)
some say
anti-content feelings are feelings that snobs have to feel better about themselves. they get to put themselves on a special PEDESTAL by looking down at other people’s output as “content”.
to dismiss content is to dismiss any art that plays with the framework in which we live. from Andy Warhol to Kusama to the Gorillaz to Charli XCX to Pastagang to Pastagang to Pastagang.
if your art isn’t content then it’s stuck up your arse naval gazing naval gazing.
but being anti content is not a way of looking down at different forms of human expression and more about the consumption production relationship that corpo social media focuses us into. When we talk of content we talk of things that the algorithm feeds us without our say we look at the way artists are stolen from by AI and the platforms they rely on. Content can be made of art but It’s turned into content when its appreciation is passive consumption on social media.
This article is by pastagang and incompleat pls editing it
the safest perspective is to be incoherent. be for or against things depending on the current phase of the moon. treat labels and categories as if they could kill you with a single touch. disagree with people for agreeing with you. do things for no reason and insist the reasons are simply hidden. do things for very obvious reasons and insist there aren’t any reasons at all. seek to misunderstand everything so you never feel trapped in any patterns. cultivate an adoration of decision-making and a scathing hatred of decisions themselves. speak before you think, then speak again, then delete half of what you said, then delete half of what you thought, then pull half of it out of the bin to think of it again. nobody has to know what you want! it’s your secret and nobody can spoil it for you
