A Brooklyn Culture Mafia

[mvuent]

As much as I love Yyaldrin's post, or ah—appreciate—the psychoanalyzing from Luka et al, I think y'all are confusing your own provincialism with these folks' cultural importance. The Chapo, Red Scare, Cumtown trifecta has a few million listeners between them—Chapo pulls $2m a year on Patreon subscriptions. Annie Baker (Gettysburg gal) is literally the most celebrated under-40 playwright in the world; anyone who's into theater knows who she is. Andrea Long Chu is the hottest figure in trans studies the last five ten years. Artforum is the most important visual arts publication of the past century.

i kind of get their annoyance tho. every time i see the brits mention one of their politicians who isn't boris johnson or jeremy corbyn i get slightly angry at the implication that i would know or care who they're talking about.

 

[luka]

It's not so much that it's foreign it's more that they're obviously gross and embarrassing and Gus doesn't even really like them he's just trying to wind us up. Successfully.

 

[linebaugh]

talking about high society with other people who are also into high society is probably miserable. talking about this stuff with the cool healthy normal people that we are here is an attractive premise if thats what you want to talk about.

 

[mvuent]

i kind of get their annoyance tho. every time i see the brits mention one of their politicians who isn't boris johnson or jeremy corbyn i get slightly angry at the implication that i would know or care who they're talking about.

if you open the politics forum it's always shit like "can you believe what that dishonest weasel kennith bannister is up to now?"

 

[luka]

I fukcing hate that Kennith Bannister

 

[constant escape]

That tit!

 

[yyaldrin]

what are your personal experiences with brooklyn @suspendedreason? have you ever been there? how does it feel walking around there?

 

[luka]

You obviously don't study his work yyaldrin he's talked extensively about his time living in Brooklyn and how we once shared a slurpy on the foreshore with a ranking member of the BCM. He said he never really had a chance, he was too young, she was too successful.

 

[Corpsey]

Luka in your role as a southbank poet do you ever move in circles of the cool? I seem to remember you were at a gallery opening or something once.

 

[Corpsey]

Assuming IdleRich runs with the cool set in Lisbon. Big warehouse parties funded by his Google stocks.

 

[Corpsey]

Craner is a one man cultural hub in darkest Newport or wherever it is he lives.

 

[luka]

Luka in your role as a southbank poet do you ever move in circles of the cool? I seem to remember you were at a gallery opening or something once.

Never even brushed up against the periphery

 

[Corpsey]

I swear you did a post about how you were drunk at a gallery opening or something and all the metropolitan elite were ignoring you

 

[luka]

That was a Rothschild thing, no one 'cool'

 

[Corpsey]

Like Alex Jones visiting Bohemian Grove

 

[IdleRich]

That was a Rothschild thing, no one 'cool'

Isn't cool just something invented by people who aren't in the real inner circle so that they can feel better about themselves?

 

[Corpsey]

Youth, affluence (or affluence-adjacency), cultural capital, don't-give-a-fuck energy and fuckability.

Why is Elon seen as cool but not Bezos?

 

[luka]

Cool is not usually seen as synonymous with wealth

 

[Corpsey]

Elon is (supposedly) a rebel. He's a disruptive force. He's not young but he memes like he is. He looks and is weird but he's definitely more fuckable than the bald diminutive Bezos.

 

[IdleRich]

Cool is not usually seen as synonymous with wealth

But cultural capital could be seen as a replacement for real capital.