This leads to Katz’s most provocative contribution: the concept of the Unlike the passive consumer of classic Hollywood cinema or the distracted scroller of TikTok, the agonistic spectator engages in a state of productive discomfort. They watch not in spite of the content’s difficulty, but because of it. Katz uses the example of endurance art (such as the works of Marina Abramović) to illustrate how hardcore entertainment repurposes this gallery-based provocation for the masses. When a viewer binge-watches a documentary series that depicts systemic abuse in graphic detail, they are not merely seeking information. They are participating in a ritual of endurance. The fatigue, the nausea, the moral outrage—these are not side effects; for Katz, they are the text itself . The value of the experience is measured in the degree of psychic abrasion it inflicts.
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