You don't think that "refusal of pleasure, cold obstruction" isn't
sufficiently in place already? Eg in protocols for arts funding,
moralistic media hysteria about obscenity, the pleasureless
commodification of sex, etc etc? It seems pretty well built-in to me.
On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 9:32 AM, 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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