Archived Tweets / Research Data
Codes & Themes w/wo Theoretical Memos
(derived through a process of inductive, qualitative, data analysis)
#MetaphorPeriodization1980s
#TheoryPoliticsOfEternity
#MetaphorVersusWeaknessStrength
#MetaphorWarfareHeroAction
#TheoryCodedMasculinityOverHyper
#IRLActorSylvesterStallone
#IRLActorArnoldSchwarzenegger
#IRLActorJeanClaudeVanDamme
#IRLActorDolphLundgren
#MetaphorGenerationMillennials
#IRLActorTomHolland
#IRLActorBenedictCumberbatch
#IRLActorEzraMiller e.g. https://www.teenvogue.com/story/ezra-miller-on-the-power-of-makeup
#IRLActorRobertPattinson e.g.
#2008_Twilight
#TheoryDeclinism
#TheoryModelBinaryDualityManichean #MetaphorVersusImpotenceVirulence
Supplementary #MagazineUKFilmStoriesAJBlack "Perhaps a reason why comic-book heroism took hold across the 2010s was not just about how Marvel married traditional comic-book movie structures with must-see episodic television, but also our own growing awareness that the structures said heroes have long protected are decaying in western society. Captain America learns that HYDRA has corrupted SHIELD, that bastions of American freedom have been infiltrated by fascist extremists. Thanos seeks ultimate population control as a means of balancing resources. So many of these films speak not just to disrupters with arch plans but how they expose the frailty of government or democratic systems in their disruption, sometimes even working within them. This also could explain the 'lone hero' trope that has taken hold in recent years to a more intense degree. McClane, John Matrix, John Rambo were all lone heroes, but as an audience, you never doubted they would prevail. They existed within a cathartic, controlled and safe geopolitical sandbox either during the end of the Cold War or the unipolar security of the United States. After 9/11, it all started to change. Jason Bourne realised his own government, with its mass surveillance, was an Orwellian nightmare. James Bond returned to a complex world where CIA agents worked with brokers to help dictators as part of a scheme to control the supply of a natural resource (as we saw in Quantum Of Solace as an example). And Ethan Hunt steadily became, even within his own storytelling, 'a living manifestation of destiny' as one character describes him" (28 November 2024). https://filmstories.co.uk/features/what-exactly-is-the-modern-cinematic-hero-fighting-for/ #PleaAWorldOfSimpleStableFixedOperations #BrandMarvel #BrandMarvelCinematicUniverseMCUCaptainAmerica #BrandMarvelHydra [Wikipedia] #BrandMarvelSHIELD [Wikipedia]. #BrandMarvelCinematicUniverseMCUThanos #FictionalCharacterJohnMcClane of #1988_DieHard etc. #FictionalCharacterJohnRambo #FictionalCharacterJohnMatrix of #1985_Commando #TheoryPsychologyPsychologicalPurgationCatharsis [Wikipedia] #PhenomnIdeologicallyMotivatedViolentExtremismIMVE #PoliticsCommunismColdWar #2001_September11Attacks911 #2016_JasonBourne #IRLAuthorGeorgeOrwell #FictionalCharacter007JamesBond #OrgUSFedCIA #2008_QuantumOfSolace #FictionalCharacterEthanHunt
Addendum #TheoryHauntology i.e. #IRLAuthorMarkFisher "the sense of yearning for a future that we feel cheated out of" (Fisher, 2012, p.16). Fisher, Mark. 'What Is Hauntology?' Film Quarterly, vol. 66, no. 1, 2012, pp. 16-24. JSTOR, [academic source]. Accessed 2 Jan. 2025.
Supplementary #MagazineUKFilmStoriesAJBlack "Perhaps a reason why comic-book heroism took hold across the 2010s was not just about how Marvel married traditional comic-book movie structures with must-see episodic television, but also our own growing awareness that the structures said heroes have long protected are decaying in western society. Captain America learns that HYDRA has corrupted SHIELD, that bastions of American freedom have been infiltrated by fascist extremists. Thanos seeks ultimate population control as a means of balancing resources. So many of these films speak not just to disrupters with arch plans but how they expose the frailty of government or democratic systems in their disruption, sometimes even working within them. This also could explain the 'lone hero' trope that has taken hold in recent years to a more intense degree. McClane, John Matrix, John Rambo were all lone heroes, but as an audience, you never doubted they would prevail. They existed within a cathartic, controlled and safe geopolitical sandbox either during the end of the Cold War or the unipolar security of the United States. After 9/11, it all started to change. Jason Bourne realised his own government, with its mass surveillance, was an Orwellian nightmare. James Bond returned to a complex world where CIA agents worked with brokers to help dictators as part of a scheme to control the supply of a natural resource (as we saw in Quantum Of Solace as an example). And Ethan Hunt steadily became, even within his own storytelling, 'a living manifestation of destiny' as one character describes him" (28 November 2024). https://filmstories.co.uk/features/what-exactly-is-the-modern-cinematic-hero-fighting-for/ #PleaAWorldOfSimpleStableFixedOperations #BrandMarvel #BrandMarvelCinematicUniverseMCUCaptainAmerica #BrandMarvelHydra [Wikipedia] #BrandMarvelSHIELD [Wikipedia]. #BrandMarvelCinematicUniverseMCUThanos #FictionalCharacterJohnMcClane of #1988_DieHard etc. #FictionalCharacterJohnRambo #FictionalCharacterJohnMatrix of #1985_Commando #TheoryPsychologyPsychologicalPurgationCatharsis [Wikipedia] #PhenomnIdeologicallyMotivatedViolentExtremismIMVE #PoliticsCommunismColdWar #2001_September11Attacks911 #2016_JasonBourne #IRLAuthorGeorgeOrwell #FictionalCharacter007JamesBond #OrgUSFedCIA #2008_QuantumOfSolace #FictionalCharacterEthanHunt
Addendum #TheoryHauntology i.e. #IRLAuthorMarkFisher "the sense of yearning for a future that we feel cheated out of" (Fisher, 2012, p.16). Fisher, Mark. 'What Is Hauntology?' Film Quarterly, vol. 66, no. 1, 2012, pp. 16-24. JSTOR, [academic source]. Accessed 2 Jan. 2025.
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@JaylaStrzelec [name pseudonymized] [ontology] [07]: "freedom" is now an far-right concept.
But I am the crazy one for insisting we will have a #nationaldivorce either peacefully or by violence. We get to choose, and my guess is we won't choose the former.
#CanadaFreedomConvoy can come here and we will send the #woke to #Ottawa [URL redacted]
#NMCACBCNewsNetwork
#CatchcryFreeSpeechFreedomOfSpeech
Supplementary #NMCATVOToday #EDUCAQueensUniversityAmarnathAmarasingam https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QThBwP2KV3k&t=4s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WQwZK-bdtcU&t=8s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m5l1AYjqRck #OrgClassifPPCALiberalPartyJustinTrudeau #PoliticsFascismNaziNeoFarRightAltRightRadicalRight #MetaphorPartitionNationalDivorce #TheoryAtomization #EDUCAUniversityOfOntarioInstituteOfTechnologyBarbaraPerry #PhenomnIdeologicallyMotivatedViolentExtremismIMVE #PhenomnMalaise
Supplementary #NMCATVOToday #EDUCAQueensUniversityAmarnathAmarasingam https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QThBwP2KV3k&t=4s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WQwZK-bdtcU&t=8s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m5l1AYjqRck #OrgClassifPPCALiberalPartyJustinTrudeau #PoliticsFascismNaziNeoFarRightAltRightRadicalRight #MetaphorPartitionNationalDivorce #TheoryAtomization #EDUCAUniversityOfOntarioInstituteOfTechnologyBarbaraPerry #PhenomnIdeologicallyMotivatedViolentExtremismIMVE #PhenomnMalaise
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@KylaWatts [name pseudonymized] [ontology] [02]: @OliverDowden @Heritage Why would this MP talk to a group that supports climate denial, voter fraud, racist policies and voter suppression. Mr Dowden is clearly a fan of populism & the far right. Important, survival policies are something he is clearly trying to detract from. All rather shameful. #woke [URL redacted]
#OrgClassifPPUKConservativePartyOliverDowden
#AdvocacyUSTheHeritageFoundation
#PhenomnClimateChange
#PloyManufacturingDoubtClimateInactivism
#PhenomnPopulism
Context #NewspaperUKBrdshtTheGuardianRowenaMason "The Tory chairman has denounced what he claims is a 'painful woke psychodrama' sweeping the west and sapping its confidence, arguing that people should not be 'obsessing' over pronouns or 'trying to decolonise' maths. Oliver Dowden, a senior Conservative and former culture secretary, made the remarks on 'cancel culture' in a speech to the Heritage Foundation, a rightwing US thinktank. Dowden said 'woke' ideology was a 'dangerous form of decadence' at a time when 'our attention should be focused on external foes'." https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2022/feb/14/oliver-dowden-says-painful-woke-psychodrama-weakening-the-west
Supplementary #WebsiteTheConversationAurelienMondon and #WebsiteTheConversationAlexYates "Calling the far right 'populist' keeps us in our inertia. To activate the appropriate sense of urgency needed to defeat these trends, we must be honest about the kind of politics that we see in front of us. If the far right proudly wears the badge of 'populism', we must ask how it helps them. They know it grants them legitimacy. Why, then, should we play into the hands of extremists whose loathing of democracy has been repeatedly demonstrated?" https://theconversation.com/the-word-populism-is-a-gift-to-the-far-right-four-reasons-why-we-should-stop-using-it-224488 [academic source] #PhenomnPopulism #PoliticsFascismNaziNeoFarRightAltRightRadicalRight #PhenomnIdeologicallyMotivatedViolentExtremismIMVE
Context #NewspaperUKBrdshtTheGuardianRowenaMason "The Tory chairman has denounced what he claims is a 'painful woke psychodrama' sweeping the west and sapping its confidence, arguing that people should not be 'obsessing' over pronouns or 'trying to decolonise' maths. Oliver Dowden, a senior Conservative and former culture secretary, made the remarks on 'cancel culture' in a speech to the Heritage Foundation, a rightwing US thinktank. Dowden said 'woke' ideology was a 'dangerous form of decadence' at a time when 'our attention should be focused on external foes'." https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2022/feb/14/oliver-dowden-says-painful-woke-psychodrama-weakening-the-west
Supplementary #WebsiteTheConversationAurelienMondon and #WebsiteTheConversationAlexYates "Calling the far right 'populist' keeps us in our inertia. To activate the appropriate sense of urgency needed to defeat these trends, we must be honest about the kind of politics that we see in front of us. If the far right proudly wears the badge of 'populism', we must ask how it helps them. They know it grants them legitimacy. Why, then, should we play into the hands of extremists whose loathing of democracy has been repeatedly demonstrated?" https://theconversation.com/the-word-populism-is-a-gift-to-the-far-right-four-reasons-why-we-should-stop-using-it-224488 [academic source] #PhenomnPopulism #PoliticsFascismNaziNeoFarRightAltRightRadicalRight #PhenomnIdeologicallyMotivatedViolentExtremismIMVE
#PhenomnBrexit
#OrgClassifPPUKConservativePartyBorisJohnson
#NewspaperUKBrdshtTheTelegraphDanielHannan
#OrgClassifPPUKConservativePartyDavidDavis
#OrgClassifPPUKConservativePartyLiamFox
#OrgClassifPPUKConservativePartyDouglasCarswell
#OrgClassifPPUKConservativePartyMichaelGove
#OrgClassifPPUKConservativePartyJohnRedwood
#AdvocacyUKEuropeanMovement
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#CaricaturistMikeLester
#NewspaperUSBrdshtTheWashingtonPost ?
#BeliefTheismIslamism
Context "The target of this hatred and ridicule is the religion itself. The caricature (Fig 14) is set in the clinic of an eye specialist. The Snellen eye chart displays a disparaging statement that is an oft-repeated racial slur. 'BEHEAD THOSE WHO INSULT ISLAM.' (Fig 14)". Rasul, S., et al. (2019). 'Politics of Identity: The Face of Islam in the International E-Media'. https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/Politics-of-Identity%3A-The-Face-of-Islam-in-the-Rasul-Khan/042e4219e615cb74198502c3ccb8b0d12192e26a
Context "The target of this hatred and ridicule is the religion itself. The caricature (Fig 14) is set in the clinic of an eye specialist. The Snellen eye chart displays a disparaging statement that is an oft-repeated racial slur. 'BEHEAD THOSE WHO INSULT ISLAM.' (Fig 14)". Rasul, S., et al. (2019). 'Politics of Identity: The Face of Islam in the International E-Media'. https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/Politics-of-Identity%3A-The-Face-of-Islam-in-the-Rasul-Khan/042e4219e615cb74198502c3ccb8b0d12192e26a
"BEFORE HE SLAUGHTERS YOU, LET ME REMIND YOU THAT HE DOES NOT REPRESENT ISLAM"
#CaricaturistAKAM80
Context #AdvocacyUSPewResearchCenter https://www.pewresearch.org/religion/2013/04/30/the-worlds-muslims-religion-politics-society-overview/
Context #AdvocacyUSPewResearchCenter https://www.pewresearch.org/religion/2013/04/30/the-worlds-muslims-religion-politics-society-overview/
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@NormanSelinger [name pseudonymized] [ontology] [19]: New #woke #TwitterCEO #ParagAgrawal says site is not 'bound by #FirstAmmendment 😳
Been a huge bust up between #Dorsey & #ElliottManagement a hedge fund run by #PaulSinger which has a substantial stake in #Twitter & massive lawsuits on the horizon.
Doesn’t look good eh folks . [URL redacted]
#OrgClassifPPUSRepublicanPartyGOPMarshaBlackburn
#BrandTechSocialMediaXFKATwitterParagAgrawal "If they are not gonna make a distinction between muslims and extremists, then why should I distinguish between white people and racists."
#IdentityMuslim
#PhenomnIdeologicallyMotivatedViolentExtremismIMVE
#IdentityWhite
#OtheringDiscriminationRacism
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@BrysonMildenstein [name pseudonymized] [ontology] [05]: @Pansentience @mr__mo @Harvest93573301 @strandedatsea @breeallegretti @lewis_goodall It’s part of the #Tory #Woke #CultureWar ‘push’ methinks! I refer you to an excellent article in .@BylineTimes by .@iainoverton [[URL redacted]. You’ll note that there are a number of #Fascism ‘markers’ in #Tory rhetoric, one of which is ‘Disagreement is Treason’! [URL redacted]
#CatchcryDisagreementIsTreason
#IRLJournalistIainOverton
https://bylinetimes.com/2021/02/12/ur-fascism-the-parliamentary-language-that-defines-the-uk/
#PhenomnRhetoricPolitical
#IRLScholarUmbertoEco
#EDUUKUniversityOfHuddersfield https://hansard.hud.ac.uk/site/index.php
#OrgUKGovParliamentHouseOfCommonsHoC
#OrgClassifPPUKConservativePartyTories
#PoliticsFascism
#IdentityBritish
#_Focal
Supplementary #WebsiteTheConversationAurelienMondon and #WebsiteTheConversationAlexYates "Calling the far right 'populist' keeps us in our inertia. To activate the appropriate sense of urgency needed to defeat these trends, we must be honest about the kind of politics that we see in front of us. If the far right proudly wears the badge of 'populism', we must ask how it helps them. They know it grants them legitimacy. Why, then, should we play into the hands of extremists whose loathing of democracy has been repeatedly demonstrated?" https://theconversation.com/the-word-populism-is-a-gift-to-the-far-right-four-reasons-why-we-should-stop-using-it-224488 [academic source] #PhenomnPopulism #PoliticsFascismNaziNeoFarRightAltRightRadicalRight #PhenomnIdeologicallyMotivatedViolentExtremismIMVE
Supplementary #WebsiteTheConversationAurelienMondon and #WebsiteTheConversationAlexYates "Calling the far right 'populist' keeps us in our inertia. To activate the appropriate sense of urgency needed to defeat these trends, we must be honest about the kind of politics that we see in front of us. If the far right proudly wears the badge of 'populism', we must ask how it helps them. They know it grants them legitimacy. Why, then, should we play into the hands of extremists whose loathing of democracy has been repeatedly demonstrated?" https://theconversation.com/the-word-populism-is-a-gift-to-the-far-right-four-reasons-why-we-should-stop-using-it-224488 [academic source] #PhenomnPopulism #PoliticsFascismNaziNeoFarRightAltRightRadicalRight #PhenomnIdeologicallyMotivatedViolentExtremismIMVE
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