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Edited Nov 27, 2008, 17:30
Re: Prog, Marx and Elitism
Nov 27, 2008, 17:08
gogmagog wrote:
If, like me, your are of a slight socialist persuasion, but like populist art as much as experimental art - its better to read your post-Marxist, revisionist thinkers like SLAVOJ ZIZEK.


I am of a (theoretical) socialist persuasion as so many people raised Christian and humanist in the 50s and 60s turned out once they dispensed with the smoke and mirrors of the church. The utopians who got turned on to science fiction and turned on by space travel and everything that was above and beyond. Amazing what a little astronomy and evolutionary theory will do for your soul.

A bit of Traherne, here some Mill there and a lot of Buckminster Fuller, RA Wilson and Marcuse with Rick Roderick and Bill Hicks in charge of the entertainment committee.

If I can be made to think (preferably while laughing a lot) and without having to take a position, carry a flag or don a uniform that might lead me to condone the putting of someone somewhere on a train to a death camp then I consider myself a lucky man.

I wont count anything in or out culturally until I've had a taste and a think. And certainly not on ideological grounds or on grounds of good taste. Makes me laugh that Adorno could have got jazz so completely wrong while dead white men like Delius and Ravel intuitively understood what Twelve Tone Theo completely overlooked. Can't imagine his wife was a happy woman.
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