WHAT IS THE PURPOSE OF THIS BLOG? WHY DOES THE PRETENTIOUS WARRIOR EXIST? IS EXISTENCE EVEN REAL? WHAT IS TRULY THE PURPOSE OF ANYTHING?

Do you like to overthink pop culture? Do you consider philosophers such as Artaud, Barthes, and Nietzsche ‘bae’? Do you want to read more about your favorite TV shows, movies, and music through the eyes of a highly analytical, pretentious, art-loving snob? If that is the case, The Pretentious Warrior of the Low Art Culture might be the right call for you.

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The Pretentious Warrior of the Low Art Culture is a blog that reflects on your favorite contemporary pieces of popular culture through comparing, analyzing, and mirroring them with philosophy, sociology, art history and everything left in between.

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This blog draws heavy inspiration from the YouTube-channel Wisecrack. Just like Wisecrack, The Pretentious Warrior aims to investigate popular culture through comparing it to the big, complicated, philosophical ideas, while remaining accessible for those who are not in the know-how. In order to do this a mixture of different kind of language styles, tones, and complexity is needed.

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Do you like to get lost in sentences that slowly, slyly, suspensefully drag on forever, using too many words for what you can say in one, the aesthetics of alliteration and anaphora, or maybe, perhaps, being confronted with multiple ideas just in one question? The Pretentious Warrior copies her writing style from German philosophers. Complicated. Dense. Not meant to be understood in one first reading.

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At the same time the blog aims to put this kind of thinking in a contemporary setting. This is done through breaking the complex languages with jokes and references to modern-day pop culture. Ever wanted to hear Jean-Paul Sartre announced as a UFC fighter? That is the eclectic, tongue-in-the-cheek nature of The Pretentious Warrior.

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But more than having fun, playing with the mixing of old and new, or toying with grand philosophical ideas in an absurdist context, The Pretentious Warrior has the goal to educate.

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No matter how complex the concepts are. No matter how long the construction of the sentences may be. No matter if the choice of words can be challenging. No matter the poetic undertone of the writing style. It cannot be alienating. The Pretentious Warrior is meant to function as a bridge between popular culture and academia. It is meant to appeal to both.

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Therefore, the sentences will not drag on forever. At least not all of them. The ideas that are discussed are never assumed to be known by everyone. It is supposed to be an open place for both lovers of pop culture and pretentious art snobs.