On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 9:45 PM, Alison Croggon <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Isn't that general cultural practice? How perception turns into
> artefact, and then commodity... the whole apparatus of the cultural
> machine, neutering art as its absorbs it, rendering conventions as
> invisible ideologies, giving it back as placebo. Certainly that seems
> the paradigm of the unlived life to me. I see a lot of it.
Well, the commodity still has an aura; the placebo is meant for the
living, even if only to pacify them. I suppose I'm thinking of a kind
of blackening (as in black metal: sacrilegious and misanthropic
anti-vitalism, a conspiracy against the human race). Destruction of
value, refusal of pleasure: cold obstruction. Obviously this is not
the only conceivable artistic program. But it might be a periodically
useful one.
Dominic
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