Monstrous Futurity

04Nov09

Drugs in Milk makes a few notes on my Lady Gaga post which points out LG’s articulation of the monstrousness of fame-as-drive. The strange repetitious motion of the drive (the pleasure of the mouth moving and not the food within it, not the object within it following Zupancic) describes the function of fame and yet […]

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Tags: capitalism, fame, lady gaga, monsters, the fame

The Splendid Rot of Fame

07Oct09

“And fame a thing devoid of judgement…” – Marcus Aurelius “Pop ate my heart […] like a beautiful monster” – Lady Gaga In one of her Warholesque short films used on her most recent tour, Lady Gaga mentions that after being eviscerated (and the organs consumed) by the monster known as Pop what remains is […]

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Tags: fame, lady gaga, madness, the coming insurrection, the fame, vmas