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'friendly bacteria' maybe attributing human qualities to non-human things is twee

this tune from that raime mix struck me as SUPER EPIC when i first heard it

yeea. reading my post from last night and something about... hegel. what. who knows. merry christmas!

not sure what's hegelian about your post. i guess you might be describing successions of ideas which sort of have internal contradictions, but that seems like a it of a stretch. still hegel needs to come up in more discussions because he is dissensian to the core lol

lol. james blake is twee autechre. now it makes sense.

comedy rappers need to fuck off but that's another thing entirely i'm gonna read it now

what about that jose gonzales cover of the knife? is that a twee-ification? edit - used for a fucking sony advert too INNART, which might more it seem more twee than it actually is.......

Many of the examples of twee in this thread seem to share a lot of postmodern tropes that are generally associated with liberalism is my point. Ie nostalgia mode - particularly an ahistorical nostalgia, one without loss/anguish (john lewis ad). Also the ironic appropriation of existing culture...

Because twee is the defining aesthetic of bourgeois liberalism. It's the cultural logic of what Terry Eagleton describes here: In other words: safe, inoffensive, naively idealistic.

let me twee your fantasy i did find this which for some reason i find hysterically funny:

i don't really understand what you're saying. do you mean that people don't make a concious choice at all to be part of a certain subculture? you've seriously never met someone who was into this one week and that the next? and to be clear i'm not saying this is particularly new (well as new as...

my main point (probably not very clear in that sentence) is that people are less conditioned in their cultural choices by their environment - that they select an identity rather than inherent it. off the top of my head football supporters might be a good example of this. it used to be absurd to...

freddy's always been a baller (never twee tho) i think twee horror would be a necessary contradiction but yea i'd like to see someone have a go

ahem. i should have said i think post modernism is the most elusive of concepts, but i do think you have a point in that, especially nowadays (postmodernism, hyperconsumerism or whatever), it's possible to pick select a culture off the shelf and 'just consume'. how that relates to authenticity...

postmodernism is fucking gay mate

yeah! and not to cast any aspersions on you, but it just occurred to me that this is probably where the 'legitimacy' of 'hipster' eclecticism lies.

Yea, this is precisely what ie John Lewis do. They sell you the whole lot, the same way urban outfitters do. But it's true that whatever culture/subculture you are part of this will happen. like if you 'bought in' to jungle music you'd be buying into a whole lot else, for example certain types...

re: secondline yea i think you're bang on with that. it is/was a subculture which has been co opted by the mainstream and we should make that distinction - looking at waitrose adverts to define twee is looking looking at skrillex to define dubstep. if definitions are to be found at all then they...

i dunno. for me this isn't really that big a deal: apart from the fact she honestly sounds like someone who has never used a computer before. "oh gosh it's all so confusing where do i click", i always thought it was quite obvious that the internet has genuinely revolutionised criticism and...

twee is the dominant aesthetic of bourgeois liberalism. discuss.