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New Video: Violence
🕑 Added 2017-11-24 18:19:17 +0000 UTC This video picks up on the themes of "Punching Natsees" and "The Left" to speculate about violence more broadly—it seems like lots of us enjoy violence in certain circumstances: What are those circumstances? Is it always morally wrong to enjoy violence? Is there a role for sadism in politics?Stylistically I tried a lot of new things in this video. I felt I was due for a more experimental one after the last few, in which I've stuck to tried and true methods. As always with the experiments, some of the new stuff works, some of it doesn't.
This video goes to some pretty dark places so please take the content warning seriously. Hopefully the little horror experiments actually contribute something and it doesn't come off as me being too much of an edgy little shit. As always, let me know what you think!
I'll be posting here in the next couple days with a general channel update as well as a schedule for the end-of-November AMA stream and Discord hangout.
Much love,
Natalie (I think we can switch to first names around here, I like you guys <3)
Comments
Boney M!
I've often thought that because so much of our species' life was spent dealing with violence and death and gore, we have an innate expectation of it. I think there is a sort of disquiet in us to live in a safe and sterilized world, which causes some to rebel and be more violent than society wants, and others to release the pressure by enjoying simulated violence through entertainment. It's so unusual that most of us eat meat without ever killing, and don't usually deal with the aftermath of death and violence ourselves but outsource it to hospitals and funeral homes. That's all so new to us as a species.
had to up my contribution level after this one. keep going, they're great!
Filipa de Araújo
Stop giving justifications :D. I wonder where all those whiners were when you were being attacked by the neo-fascists.
Seconded
I found this video to be disturbing, but on point. I especially loved the scenes of you in the catsuit on your knees. You only briefly covered the the topic of consensual violence, but you covered the entire topic exceptionally well like usual.
Filipa de Araújo
Such a rich reflection! You picked your examples perfectly, as Alex is first an amoral sadist and then a victim of socially accepted violence perpetrated by the state (and the book is way more violent than the film, incidentally). And yes, FF fails a bit when pretending violence in fictional works doesn't include catharsis element, but Anita's point was mostly that such violence served only the fantasies of (mostly) white men. I really like the intellectual videos of yours :D and I just think you compressed this one a bit too much: one video should be just for the study of sadomasochistic elements in our society, other for the portrayal violence and its appreciation and 4556556634 about the legitimacy of violence. I loved the tweets and I'm glad Tabby loves some milk :D. And the music was powerful!
An excellent video, I think the more experimental parts landed well; if anything, it's your meta commentary that seemed out of place for the topic at hand. Good discussion, I'll probably make a response to the content once I sober up.
Mark Singer
Expertly produced, but I think the writing of this one was a little jumbled and it all came out in a rush. This may just be a topic that needs more time or more than one video.
Somebody give this woman her own Netflix series!
Etienne Ammoun
Well done. Appreciate your resistance to providing a neat resolution on such a thorny topic. Most videos lazily offer centrist bromides and moralistic twaddle--while offering little in the way of irony, wit and, yes, glamour.
Tyler Boone
Loved it! The two-shot in the BDSM scene was interesting, it was an excellent way to have a dialogue that was both funny and appropriate for the discussion, excellent stuff Nat!
