https://tankie.tube/videos/watch/a79e4fd9-c375-4c9e-a2ee-6143d041d9b4 There’s been a lot, a lot said, a lot of slop made, about the recent assassination of Charlie Kirk. It has divided, it has traumatised, it has uplifted. Yet underpinning all of this, all of Charlie Kirk’s career and his very death, is spectacle. His work, his relationships with friends and opponents, his position in the American Republican movement. All of it has been about producing, and reproducing, spectacle. Those who love him, those who hate him, those who antagonise him, are all entangled in this presentation of an immense accumulation of spectacles. To many, his death is symbolic of the normalisation of political violence in America. But what’s missed, is how his death encapsulates just how totally colonised politics has been by spectacle. 0:00-0:51 intro 0:51-2:29 what is Spectacle? 2:29-11:29 two wings of spectacle producers 11:29-16:39 a spectacular death 16:39-18:28 final notes sources and script: https://docs.google.com/document/d/13OiJOBQ30BIrF3-VKSirxQUtbtm1v-0NH9mCESoOvK0/edit?usp=sharing Wed, 08 Apr 2026 14:58:06 GMT https://validator.w3.org/feed/docs/rss2.html PeerTube - https://tankie.tube https://tankie.tube/lazy-static/avatars/3ba3ff73-a8b6-49c9-add8-9653ef090c7f.webp https://tankie.tube/videos/watch/a79e4fd9-c375-4c9e-a2ee-6143d041d9b4 All rights reserved, unless otherwise specified in the terms specified at https://tankie.tube/about and potential licenses granted by each content's rightholder.