Ciao, David,
yes, from what you have said in the past and what you are saying now if
does seem to me that you are a kind of writer who does take these
problematic into consideration and who does apply them concretely to his
own poetry.
So, I am pleased that you share this kind of view, but also not surprised,
since your other ideas about society and the publishing world have been
concerned so far often with socialist issues.
Of course, theory cannot dictate themes or styles to poetic procedures and
impose limitations to its expressivity. Yet, theory shows that within the
avant-garde, there are artists who are radical left (socialist) and those
who are radical 'chic' (elitist).
In the case of the radical-left, artists tend to underline the economical
phenomenon that can render the production of the artistic product a luxury-
good trade ( turning art into fetishism, reification and commodity,
through self-alienation ).
In the case of radical-chic, through self-alienation, artists tend to
absorb into their products the very essence of fetishism, reification
and commodity, in most cases to provide evidence of decadence from within.
These former tend to believe that art can serve a sort of redemptive goal
by establishing contacts with that world that it wish to redeem, the
latter tend to believe that redemption is no longer possible and that that
world dwells within a realism of appearances, filtered through the Self.
The former tend to thing that the task of the artist (and the critic) is
to rescue al preserve society and recomposed its scattered fragments into
a functional whole, the latter see all the same that fragmentation and
choose to live it as it is because there is no possibility of coherence
outside the only possible ‘unity’, which is the Self..
Probably I myslef ideologically and politically belong too radically to
the former group to speak fairly and understand the reasons of the
latter.
erminia
erminia
In the case of radical-chic, through self-alienation, artists tend to
absorb into their products the very essence of fetishism, reification
and commodity, in most cases to provide evidence of decadence from within.
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