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=== Universal Empire === | === Universal Empire === | ||
The flagship aesthetic of @UrbanMaoism is "Universal Empire", which is a first attempt at finding a modern expression for the aesthetic of [[Mongol Modernity]]. The term [[wikipedia:Universal_monarchy|"Universal Empire"]] is | The flagship aesthetic of @UrbanMaoism is "Universal Empire", which is a first attempt at finding a modern expression for the aesthetic of [[Mongol Modernity]]. The term [[wikipedia:Universal_monarchy|"Universal Empire"]] is used in this context in more or less explicit reference to Alexandre Kojeve's use of the term. It can also be read as general reference to the premodern land empires whose sovereigns claimed hegemony over what their people considered the whole of the world. The aesthetic binds these two readings of the term together by creating mood boards in which the aesthetics of archaic Universal Empires are displayed as a symbolic synonym-ring that constitutes a modern Universal Empire in the kojevian sense. At it's most simplest the aesthetic can be summed up as a fusion of [[Socialist Realism]] and Vorticism. Origin of the aesthetic has not yet been tracked down conclusively, but [https://twitter.com/Reach4ACopsGun Wahaddin Trotposting (@Reach4ACopsGun)] was likely the origin. He has also elaborated it into a Neo-Utopik magazine. | ||
[https://levinietz.substack.com/ Nietz's Substack] is named after this aesthetic, though it is not exclusively dedicated to it. | [https://levinietz.substack.com/ Nietz's Substack] is named after this aesthetic, though it is not exclusively dedicated to it. | ||