Paw Patrol Is Fascist Art

Paw Patrol is Giorgio Agamben’s nightmare, a country in which a permanent state of emergency exists, under which governments have limitless power to rule unilaterally. There is no society or even commerce in Paw Patrol, only the relentless unthinking force of the police state, ostensibly responding to a never-ending crisis. It is the most influential work of fascist art since Ezra Pound.

The image presents a deadpan pseudo-academic critique of Paw Patrol, claiming that its fictional society is a permanent state of emergency ruled by an unchecked police force. The joke comes from applying Giorgio Agamben’s political theory and extremely serious fascist-art criticism to a children’s cartoon about rescue puppies, creating absurd intellectual overanalysis. It can be sent as a reaction to someone taking a harmless children’s show, everyday situation, or minor opinion far too seriously.

• @rzeczyzabawne / 12788 2023-10-15