I watched the viral clip of Michael Rubin's so-called ‘white party’ in the Hamptons (disseminated by Rubin1 himself on Twitter).2 This is a display of a kind of new American aristocracy: sports, hip-hop, movies, pop stars.
The spectacle3 comes from people who are highly unreal, seeming somewhat real, together; there’s a part of our brains that realizes that they are showing us not only that they are real, but that we can never be them.
The hyperreal displaces the real, toys with the real, mocks it.
The point of the ‘party’ is to make a 90 second clip about the party.
Last night I got prank called. At first I thought it was just an insane person, but then I