Isn't that just what Proust and Flaubert were after? Only dressed in the
imagology of Tr00 metal?
I read the Ligotti piece in Collapse too - which seems to be what you're
stabbing at here.
He's a good writer, interesting chap, but with very particular concerns
related to his very particular condition.
To what end for the rest of us?
On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 10:32 PM, Dominic Fox <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> 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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