J MacD
@LesserFeat
'The Lesser Feat' on YouTube. Warwick University film/media scholar & video essayist. Researching YouTube aesthetics, irony & intention. Unionize.
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This video essay (my first!) begins a series about treating YouTube as art: youtube.com/watch?v=n7eTvr… Deeply indebted to @hmsnofun. Looks at @ContraPoints, @PatriciaTaxxon & feat @nr2097, @PhilosophyTube @InnuendoStudios; H/Ts to @thelindsayellis, @FoldableHuman, @LackingSaint etc.
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Notes on YouTube Art (Part 1): ContraPoints, Aesthetics, and Artworlds
Really bugs me how I see people worried that being nice will compromise their judgment (no “sugarcoating”) but never worried that the pleasure of being brutal motivates or warps their judgment. I’m just supposed to assume it’s a disincentive to be mean when they seem to love it.
As a parent what would you do if you couldn’t feed your children? Watching them starve, crying for food, as your own empty stomach gnaws at you. HELP: chuffed.org/project/113222…. Children in Gaza are still malnourished, still starving, a famine still underway. Aid trucks are still…
It is good that these people lose their jobs. It is good that they are shamed and humiliated and must live with the repercussions for the rest of their lives. It is good if they wake up every day until they die wishing they hadn't said what they said. We cannot have a civilized…
I like how he says “Labour MPs put their careers on the line to stop (Old Jezza) becoming Prime Minister”, a thing that up until last year was an absolutely deranged conspiracy theory, but has somehow become an obvious fact, without anyone having been wrong about it at any point
I am shocked - shocked! - to discover the entire “exodus” story was nothing more than lobbying on behalf of the mega-rich. Wealth tax now!
if you're a bookshop/university/festival/whatever & would like to invite me to speak/read/be on a panel about my book, please get in touch...
leftwing populism is popular. neoliberal centrist dems can’t make a compelling message because they stand for nothing. not complicated.
Joe Scarborough asks, "why is it that in the Democratic Party, the three most compelling figures" have been "the mayoral candidate [Zohran Mamdani], Bernie Sanders and AOC"? "Why can't moderate Democrats...make that same compelling message?"
In 2021, Eric Adams was hailed as the “future of the Democratic Party” after it took 8 whole rounds for him to win by less than 1 point. What does that make Zohran Mamdani, if he won in 3 quick rounds by 12?
Palestinian communism dates back to the 1920s under British colonial rule. At its peak, the country's left-wing movement was one of the strongest in the Arab world. “Red Star Over Palestine,” Jacobin's latest podcast series, explores that history.
I'm not entirely certain what the definitional boundaries of the "fan cam" are, but... ...did David Lammy just post a fan cam of himself?
This line will be quoted ad nauseam for decades in history and politics books. Agree with him or not (and correctly or not), it will be the go-to way of articulating Labour's return to aping the Tories.
Wes Streeting’s cognitive dissonance to describe Labour governing as the Tories wished to as “change” is really something
Jeremy Corbyn is again being smeared for being pro-Putin. The fact is that no politician has been more consistent or prescient about Putin. Corbyn warned against him when others didn’t. This article first published three years ago in Middle East Eye: middleeasteye.net/opinion/russia…
Genuinely asking here. Amongst all the talk of increasing defence spending and the austerity, cuts, 'belt-tightening' etc, has a single media pundit or politician suggested there should be tax rises on the rich to pay for it? Even as a question? Because I haven't seen one.
remember when liberals said Kamala Harris lost because Latinos are too macho to support women in politics
🇲🇽#Mexico, President Sheinbaum (Morena) approval rating poll: ⏫Approve: 85 % (+4) ⏸️Disapprove: 15 % According to El Financiero, this is the highest approval for a President in Mexico in at least 30 years. El Financiero, 24/02/25
Something you’d stare at for hours at your Gradparents house in a pre iPhone era
This guy on TikTok does the best Christopher Moltisanti I've ever heard. It's dead-on. The rest of his impressions are almost as flawless.
It is tempting to dismiss entirely the centrist bore who says the “far left” and “far right” are, in some fundamental sense, "the same." But we should resist the urge to deny all common ground. Both left and right recognise—correctly—that the system is failing. What…
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