This thread if it is one keeps changing its name if it's got one.
Brechtiana might be a better one.
I've been trying to remember a word for, like, when you slip the rug from
under some activity (poetry eg) by placing it in dependence to some other
activity (buying and selling e.g.) so that what everybody thought they
were doing (making songs e.g.) turns out to be something different
(contributing to the capitalist crisis e.g.) I know there is a word which
exactly covers this and isn't restricted to that kind of reduction, but I
can't think what it is. It means that you class an activity as a response
when it thought it was behaving freely. The word is an adjective
describing a discourse which explains away some complex or independant
thing as a product of something else which is prioritised over it. A crude
example would be saying that Scandinavians like Strindberg wrote gloomy
plays because of the terrible weather up there and it's dark most of the
time, which is the kind of thing undergraduates used to say in Cambridge in
the 1960s. Nowdays I think they refer more to political power structures
and finance, rather than the weather, which may be an improvement or not. I
just can't remember what this word is.
Anyway I'm going to Paris for four days, and I shan't find the word there
unless I ask at the Sorbonne.
/PR
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