Shock Art, Postmodernism, and Alt-Right Meme Culture

This is the finale of my Defending Transgressive Art series, but should stand alone as its own video as well. I start with the culture war censorship of the 80s through 2000s with the parental advisory sticker shock rock hearings and attempts to cancel Marilyn Manson. I then discuss postmodernism in art and meme culture from Dada and Duchamp's fountain to the postmodern internet meme culture we see today. I then discuss how postmodernism has left a vacuum for the alt-right to fill with their own forms of transgressive art, and why we should move past this trend in the arts.

Part 1 on State Repression of the Arts    • A Brief History of Artistic Censorshi...  
Part 2 on Woke Hollywood, Young Adult Fiction and defending Dave Chappelle    • Culture War Censorship: Woke Hollywoo...  
Why Art Sucks Now (Scorsese was Right)    • Why Art Sucks Now (the Crisis in Crea...  

TIMESTAMPS:
0:00 Intro
0:56 Shock Rock, Music Censorship, and Marilyn Manson
9:00 Postmodernism and Dada in Art History
15:26 Dadaism and Gen Z Humor
19:52 4chan, Internet Trolls, and the Online Alt Right
30:30 Conclusion

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REFERENCES:
Mark Fisher Exiting the Vampire Castle https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/open...
Angela Nagle Online Culture wars from 4chan and Tumblr to trump and the alt right (book)
Camille Paglia postmodernism is a plague upon the mind and the heart https://faustomag.com/camille-paglia-...
Senate Hearing PMRC 1985 Full    • Frank Zappa - Senate Hearings Rock Ly...  
Sir Roger Scruton Why Beauty Matters documentary
Warning parental advisory full movie    • Warning: Parental Advisory (Full Movie)  
Congressional Hearing on Violence in Music 1997 https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/C...
The Nation Milo Yiannopolous Interview https://www.thenation.com/article/arc...
Memes are the quintessential postmodern art form https://theodoregreenbaum.medium.com/....
Argument that postmodernism doesn’t exist, just a resurgence of the dada art movement https://web.archive.org/web/200702230... also references baudrillard and other postmodern philosophers
Marilyn Manson Degenerate Art Exhibit http://www.nachtkabarett.com/Degenera...
What is Dada? https://mymodernmet.com/what-is-dadaism/
Feels Good Man Pepe the Frog Documentary    • Видео  
The pewdiepipeline (edgy humor)    • The PewDiePipeline: how racist humor ...  
The time rock n roll saved free speech the foundation for economic freedom    • The Time Rock & Roll Saved Free Speech  
Adbusters and the roots of the contemporary left https://www.cjr.org/special_report/ad...
Meme wars in pictures adbusters https://www.theguardian.com/world/gal...
Rise and fall of occupy wall street    • Why Occupy Wall Street Failed 10 Year...  
The canvas what is dada a short introduction    • What is Dada? - A Short Introduction