Beyond surface level discourse: The AOC dress.
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Beyond surface level discourse: The AOC dress.

As anti-capitalist philosophers like Slavoj Zizek would argue, there is always a temptation with American politics to follow a political figure because of the issues to which they subscribe to. Any political message is quite incidental when compared to the formal environment in which it is transmitted. It therefore does not matter what is expressed in a medium, since what really matters concerns the way in which the medium forms political imaginations or allows violence to flourish. Therefore, such political messaging is adherent very much to a neoliberal approach of “change from within” with is in direct tension with anti-capitalism as per AOC’s message. Thus, trivialising the serious issue that she intends to bring attention to through her messaging in the Met Gala context.

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At the intersection of COVID-19
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At the intersection of COVID-19

“As a society, we only understand something to be a problem when we witness confronting behaviour that is often clearly violent. This understanding branches out to many crimes that we often do not label as criminal in our mind unless they are aggressive and often physical.”

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