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Situational Comedy

Comedy in the broad sense, the narrative or “theater of life…” Every moment presents itself as a situation, to be expanded into a comedy… A germinal feeling unfolds into a situational comedy through action… Conduct a situational tour through the third space of social relations to activate and amplify the super-participatory nature of online life… The moments when the most extreme, far-flung forms of situations occur, are when you are looking, paying attention, prepared to capture the moment in its bizarre juxtaposition to the reality at hand. The construction of a situation is a spontaneous event, born from the desire to see the world in its strangest possibilities. But you need to be ready, it requires a lifetime to prepare to face the moment, otherwise, it may pass you by in the blink of an eye. Before you know it, the world has changed and you missed the whole thing… It is this unfolding situation of the moment earned, which tears us away from the doldrums of the real and catapults our senses into the realm of the comedic. It is here, in this rarefied air that we realize everything is possible. Anything at all.

  • The Cinematic Spectacle of the Impeachment Saga (1/19/2020)
  • Deep Throat Redux (9/29/2019)
  • The Situational Comedy (8/8/2019)
  • In the Aftermath of WWW III (4/24/2019)
  • Theater is a State of Constant Emergency (2/16/2019)
  • The Great Memetic Pavlovian Experiment (2/6/2019)
  • Stoned & Confused (1/26/2019)
  • The Spies Who Loved Me (5/25/2017)
  • The Laboratory of Networked Behavior (5/14/2017)
  • The FULL ON Grip of the Media Torrent (11/3/2016)
  • Screwed by the Weiner (10/30/2016)
  • TRUMP’s Epic Meltdown Into the Post Real (8/3/2016)
  • Revolution from the Golf Links (6/25/2016)
  • Living in a Make Believe World (3/26/2016)
  • To Be an Iconoclast in the Land of the Living Dead (9/29/2015)
  • Everyone Wants to be on TV (6/23/2015)
  • The Catalogue of Social Taxonomy of Net Behavior (3/7/2015)
  • The Dilemma of no Separation (7/18/2014)
  • By Everyone, for no one, Everyday (4/29/2014)
  • The Interview as Performance Art (4/22/2014)
  • Mad as Hell (3/2/2014)
  • Identity Multiples (2/9/2014)
  • Every moment presents itself as a situation, to be expanded into a comedy (11/30/2013)
  • Glitter and Angst in Contemporary Music (12/2/2011)
  • Driving Down the Gutter Lane of Futility (5/22/2011)
  • The sublime comedy and the grand critique (10/2/2010)

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