I saw somewhere that her face is the most common reference for cosmetic surgery. Instagram is looking more and more like Kim. Sure, she’s a product of her society and embodies its aspirations, I find it interesting how she influences those aspirations. There’s something really amazing about the example that Kim sets. ![]() Who am I to judge one celebrity activist against another? The Kardashians are extremely skilled in making their extraordinary life seem relatable, and I their success comes from instinctively understanding, and being able to embody in real time, the changing mechanics of media. Why are such people iconized today? Certainly, there are other people who are in some sense icons, such as Greta Thunberg, Malala Yousafzai, and other political and human-rights activists, who should have achieved the same cult status.ĬKT: I don’t know - that seems kind of moralistic to me. At the same time Kim Kardashian and her entire family are utterly not relatable - owning private jets, wardrobes bigger than many people’s apartments, being able to do pretty much anything in the world because financial constraints are non-existent. Maybe the West in the early 2020s is like the final decades of the Soviet Union where everything that you say is coded with the collective self-awareness that you’re just playing along with the fiction of the state that no one is allowed to call out as a fiction.ĬKE: In a way, the Kardashians are literally a simulation because they’re a reality show. ![]() I never know what it’s going to say.ĬKE: Does that mean that in our society you can’t say anything too complex or controversial without risking losing your status?ĬKT: You certainly can’t acknowledge the simulation. Certain elements of that avatar’s script in The Finesse are continually algorithmically generated anew each time. They grew up seeing through the matrix and seeing how these pillars of a democracy, such as the justice system, could be shaped by media, by narrative, by storytelling.ĬKE: So, your Kim is comparable to Kim seeing through the matrix? What do you think would happen if the real Kim Kardashian actually talked the way the character looking like her does in your film? Would this be the downward spiral of her success and (mainstream) popularity?ĬKT: Part of the wisdom that comes with evolving to a higher being is the ability to be relatable to humans and not scare them.ĬKT: Well, it is an AI, in parts. They saw their dad represent OJ Simpson in that trial that was a rupture in the West’s fictional democracy. They’re more advanced, higher beings as it were. The Kardashians have been able to preempt all of this, in that they’ve evolved beyond that idea of a human. But it’s an increasingly implausible fiction in the face of gene editing, neural engineering, machine learning, and the rise of the East, which operates on somewhat different fictions. That fiction is the basis of our consumer democracies - it’s the ideological or religious front line of an empire. When we use that term, we’re not usually referring to a biological category, are we? We usually mean something more than that - a particular idea from the West of what it means to be human: a liberated, autonomous individual that’s “true” to themselves and is somehow ontologically distinct from everything that’s not human. ![]() The idea that we’re “human is kind of a fiction. The most important part of that fiction, the part that we each need to hit to even count as a convincing human being, is authenticity. We all project a fiction of ourselves to a certain extent. Kim Kardashian has become an entity, but what happens to the person behind that entity?ĬHRISTOPHER KULENDRAN THOMAS: That’s a good question for us all to ask ourselves. In a way, that blurs their “real” identities, which then oscillate between being real and fictitious. She is part of an obscure sphere where people are mystified - be it through technology, social media, or prolonged hyper-exposure. ![]() CLAIRE KORON ELAT: The first time I saw your film, The Finesse, I thought that it was the real Kim Kardashian.
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