Definitions by The Logical Fallacy

Redsploitation

A subgenre of exploitation film that focuses on native americans. Most commonly, native americans are portrayed by actors in red-face and involves exacting revenge on white antagonists.

"Somewhere in the grey area between the noble savage and the savage-savage lies the Redsploitation film. These gems of schlock cinema feature Natives getting off their knees and kicking white ass all over the West. The majority of these films follow a rigid formula: one hour of abusing the Native protagonist, and one hour of the Native protagonist murdering every white person who appears on screen. And like all great exploitation films, they're ridiculous in the best sense of the word. Apply your warpaint and ready the horses... it's time to unbury the hatchet."
WHAT IS REDSPLOITATION? - VICE

Redsploitation by The Logical Fallacy June 3, 2017

feeding the alligators 

When one exposes themselves to fiction that stimulates our negative qualities (like horror fiction) so that they can work through them in a healthy and harmless environment as catharsis.

Serial killers and other murderers appeal to the impulse Stephen King calls "feeding the alligators," and Carl Jung called "integration of the shadow self," but it all means the same thing: that entertaining our own dark side can be therapeutic.
-- 8-Bit Philosophy

feeding the alligators by The Logical Fallacy May 27, 2017

The Trend

A trend in the '60s and '70s where various rock bands would title themselves "The" followed by a random noun. Usually done to capitalize on the success of The Beatles.

The Animals, The Association, The Beatles, The Byrds, The Castaways, The Crusaders, The Doors, The Gentrys, The Keys, The Kinks, The Marbles, The Monkees, The Temptations, The Turtles, The Troggs, The Who, The Zombies, The Trend

The Trend by The Logical Fallacy May 24, 2017

Baraminology 

The study of baramins, or a lineage of earthly life which is believed in Young Earth Creationism to be created by God during the creation week, and corresponds in some functional aspects to the secular concept of "species".

Those that study and believe in Baraminology believe that Noah did not store 2 of every species on the planet , but instead he stored each and every "Kind" of animal. "Kind" being whatever the hell creationists want to mean at the moment.

Baraminology by The Logical Fallacy May 18, 2017

Happenings 

An art event, often staged or pre-scripted, that requires active participation from an audience to come to full fruition.

Fluxus art involved the viewer, relying on the element of chance to shape the ultimate outcome of the piece. The use of chance was also employed by Dada, Marcel Duchamp, and other performance art of the time, such as Happenings.

Happenings by The Logical Fallacy May 13, 2017

Fluxus 

An early '60s to late '70s art movement that focused on experimentally mixing various artistic medias and disciplines.

Much like Dadaism and Futurism, Fluxus used Anti-Art to challenge the establishment of the time, change culture as a whole and make fine art more accessible to the masses. Yoko Ono for example was one of many fluxus artists at the time that made performance art an actual thing in modern art.

Fluxus by The Logical Fallacy May 13, 2017

Anti-Art 

Art created to challenge the very definition of art and criticize the field as a whole, ironically becoming a part of the artistic establishment and changing the field.

Marcel Duchamp's "Fountain" changed the world of art forever and became a staple of Anti-Art, having taken an old urinal, wrote his name on it and submitted it as an art piece. This led to debates so heated that if it wasn't for "Fountain" and its nuanced use of found objects, modern art would be nothing like it was today.

Anti-Art by The Logical Fallacy May 12, 2017