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Quotes from KimKierkegaardashian that I wish were from Kakashi [Part 5/5]:
“Up early. Mani-Pedi time. Still half asleep. Of all ridiculous things, it seems to me the most ridiculous is to be busy.“ [x]
“What our age lacks is not reflection, but passion. And so my leather legging addiction continues.“ [x]
“It seems essential, in relationships and all tasks, that we concentrate only on what is most significant and important: Bringing sexy back.“ [x]
“What distinguishes the unhappiest person? Smoky eyes and chic up-do. Evening glam.“ [x]
Quotes from KimKierkegaardashian that I wish were from Kakashi [Part 4/5]:
“To boldly venture the truth is what gives human life and the human situation pith & meaning. Take a chance on harem pants.“ [x]
“I stand like a lonely pine, egoistically shut off, pointing to the skies & casting no shadow. It was easy to achieve this sleek & sexy look.“ [x]
“Weary of people, weary of myself, so weary that I need an eternity to rest. That’s why I always carry a pillow when I’m traveling.“ [x]
“I am in the profoundest sense an unhappy individual; my suffering borders on madness. But when Destiny’s Child came out, that made my life!“ [x]
“I feel dull and without joy, my soul is so empty & void that I cannot even conceive what could satisfy it. Black liner messy hair kinda day.“ [x]
“I sit here quite alone, counting the hours, consumed with a desire so formless I don’t even know what I long for. ChatRoulette time.“ [x]
“The finitized person does what ‘the others’ do, finding it cozy & safe. What’s ironic is the messy hair looks often takes longer to perfect!“ [x]
Quotes from KimKierkegaardashian that I wish were from Kakashi [Part 3/5]:
“Hair by Rob Recine; make up by Lucia Pieroni; inner strife & disharmony by some unknown thing I do not even dare to try to know.“ [x]
“Every human being must go through the adventure of being anxious. It can make the biggest difference in the way your look comes together.“ [x]
“My look is never complete without indescribable suffering.“ [x]
“One must work some time in darkness before the light bursts through & the sun shines forth in all its glory. Tan time! So excited!” [x]
“For events, I like to pair bold lashes with a gnawing sense of futility.“ [x]
“My melancholy is the most faithful sweetheart I have had. She is one bad bitch.“ [x]
“I always regret when I try long nails. They remind me too poignantly of the sharp scythe of the reaper.“ [x]
Rhetorical Analysis of Kim Kierkegaardashian
I drew a lucky card in a digital rhetoric course I’m taking– we’ve been discussing the process of applying rhetorical analysis to digital productions and one of the options was one of my favorite Twitter producers wooooooo.
Categories– Aim, Audience, Affect.
AIM
So, Kim Kierkegaardashian’s bio is apparently transparent– “The philosophy of Søren Kierkegaard mashed with the tweets and observations of Kim Kardashian”– but this belies the fact that this is a complicated amalgam of
a) a philosopher existentially positioning and defining how the self works RE to all that alienation in bewildering universe stuff (fun!)
with
b) a pop-culture-socialite-reality star–existence whose public presentation pretty much dismisses existential positioning in favor of embracing a constant shifting of roles to maintain fame and pop-culture relevance (not as fun!)
Søren Kierkegaard is a philosopher trying to discover how we exist as individuals; Kim Kardashian is an aggregate of factors, shaping and shaped by cultural fixations. Kim Kierkegaardashian, then, is a consummately metamodern project– equal parts sincere analysis of our condition via juxtaposition and ironic postmodern disinterest.
If that sounds overtly complicated, keep in mind that Søren was a Christian who didn’t go to church and that Kim is married to a guy with an album called Yeezus.
Prime example– a little inditement against capitalism, generated via an exhortation to figure out where your identity’s at alongside an invitation to be a consumer. Aim? A little bit to make us think, a little bit to make fun, and a lot to entertain. Which brings us to Audience.
AUDIENCE
In the least callous way, this content isn’t designed for the general consumer demographic of the Kim Kardashian brand. Besides cultural theory people, her popularity is predicated largely on passive consumption of her brand. On the flip side Kim Kierkegaardashian isn’t really designed for serious devotees of Kierkegaard, as those are generally a little too busy delving into the process of loving, fearing and trembling, or being snarky towards institutionalized religion to live that Twitter life. It’s uniquely catering to audiences familiar enough with existentialism to get the critique, but pop-culture aware enough to find it funny.
As evidenced in the below tweet, it’s generally fairly ironically judgmental of consumer materialism. In that respect, it again isn’t really designed for the Kierkegaard people– the whole thing is fairly Neomarxist. You can totally integrate some of Kierkegaard into Marxist thought, but he’s not on that spectrum. So, people with an equal investment in being entrained as voting for Bernie, your average seventeen to thirty-seven year old humanities bent person who may be the beneficiary of a lot of education and a lot of Netflix, for fans of Slavok Zizek, Derrida excerpts, Calvin & Hobbes, and (if you saw the video), Fall Out Boy, that crowd is going to be all about that Kim Kierkegaardashian life.
AFFECT
Mostly entertainment, if we’re being real with ourselves. But this isn’t to draw the Art vs Entertainment, DFW-style spectrum analysis: while Kim Kierkegaardashian isn’t art, it is an implicit societal critique couched in a comedic dialectic set up between existentialism’s granddad and consumer based pop-culture’s embodiment. The affect is that we, the audience, are entertained, but that we are likewise reminded of the positions that we probably basically already say we hold– that is, the anti-consumer message of Kim Kierkegaardashian.
And this tweet is basically In Persona Christi of the irony present in a anti-consumer message framed in the Kim Kardashian context. The critique is there, but it’s the swing back into postmodernism, where we’re pretty endlessly trapped in being able to reference to Kim Kardashian. We know who she is and we’re pretty clearly interpolated into a cultural state where a comedy account criticizing said culture makes recourse to the thing it critiques in order to enact its critique. The affect doesn’t exist outside the irony– and, ultimately, this realization is the most integral affect of Kim Kierkegaardashian.
Quotes from KimKierkegaardashian that I wish were from Kakashi [Part 2/5]:
“Looking at faith, one is seized by a kind of horror, both appalled and attracted at the same time. Just like granny panties.” [x]
“My task was to introduce rigorousness and therefore I have both contoured and applied individual false eyelashes.“ [x]
“I started off with a clean day look then with a few easy steps took it to hopelessness & despair.“ [x]
“There is something definite upon my mind, something I have to say, and I dare not die without having uttered it. CHOKER NECKLACES." [x]
“I'm not trying to shade anyone, but it is my destiny to discourse on truth in such a way that all authority is simultaneously demolished.“ [x]
“All of existence makes me anxious, from the tiniest fly to the mysteries of the Incarnation. Just to give you an idea of a typical day.“ [x]
“Today's look: A terrible, insatiable existential hunger, plus my new favorite boots.“ [x]
Quotes from KimKierkegaardashian that I wish were from Kakashi [Part 1/5]:
"Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced. I especially love Samuel L. Jackson's narration. So powerful.“ [x]
“Whether rich reds or vampy plums, lip color is a great way to disguise the emptiness you feel this holiday season.“ [x]
“The @nytimes compares an opera to me, yet fails to use the words "genius," "death-haunted," or "sexy lace jumpsuit."” [x]
“When I am dead, an imaginary character will be conjured up for me, a dark, somber figure who sometimes liked to wear a sexy lace jumpsuit.“ [x]
“If my contemporaries could understand how I suffer, I am sure they would be so profoundly shaken that they would buy me churros.“ [x]
“Feeling extra thin thanks to the pain that eats away at my spirit.“ [x]
“When the truth stands before me cold and naked, my first suggestion is always layering.“ [x]