discussing the "c" word is valid in many cases, but not when the preceding conversation is about the vibe of a house track or something. when that happens here, and it does periodically, I roll my eyes and check out. it's boring pseudo-intellectualism that's not relevant to the discussion at hand.
What did you all make of this ?
https://frieze.com/media/jeremy-deller-everybody-place-incomplete-history-britain-1984-1992
Hey, do you have a title for said text? Bit of an obsession with said cultures & perspectives on them. Happy to pay if in print.
What did you all make of this ?
https://frieze.com/media/jeremy-deller-everybody-place-incomplete-history-britain-1984-1992
It's the word I can't stand. I hate the word. It gets waved around as a substitute for thinking. I've seen too m any interesting conversations ruined by it
Regarding what has been said of the c word, I was reading this last night:
"...time is not an object. So every objectification of time is going to be subverted, it’s going to have missed its actual target and therefore in some way fail. It will be metaphysically flawed. That’s what happens with the critique of capitalism. It is always tempted to engage in premature objectification and say this is what capitalism is, we can tell, we can define it as an object and then by doing it we can set limits to it. That objectifica-
tion process always has the same metaphysical congenital defect. You
can argue with it, which obviously I do, but that’s less interesting than the fact that as time passes it will be exposed for its inadequacies. The left that bases itself on this model of objectification of capitalism will
be defeated and outwitted and mocked by the actual historical process.
That’s obviously what the history of the left is, the successive attempts
to upgrade the objectification of capital and then a bit later revaluate it
because capitalism over-spilt in all directions and developed in direc-
tions the left didn’t foresee. There is symmetry there, because I think
it’s a mistake on the right, too, to have a model of capitalism. You should
see that as a joke. Capitalism is a transcendental process."
cool but can we also ban well-adjusted personality and its derivatives?
I don't have to use the word capitalism but if i said drugs are really not that deep the opinion wouldn't cary the same weight on here. and this from someone who used to use drugs frequently. they are just quotidian, nothing special, not ontologically privileged above anything else. there's no breakthrough, no silver bullet, no great awakening.
I don't think anyone here would claim to have a well-adjusted personality!
There are innumerable breakthroughs and awakenings