http://www.artinfo.com/news/story/800410/can-artists-help-us-reboot-humanism-in-an-over-connected-age
I found your article very interesting. I share with you a healthy skepticism of the new coined expression The New Aesthetic. What it means? An aesthetic based on the sharing of shallow content and speedy links? An aesthetic bare from any political or critical point of view? I asked a friend some years ago, who raised her children? She was a single mom working fulltime and being a politician in her spare time. She was very honest and told me: "my children are raised by the MTV and by Disney Channel and by Marvel Group". She explained that in despite of all the parental ideas of how to live and how to act in society the children (two teens, 13 and 15 years old), got their most important influences from MTV. They knew about Grimm and Perrault and H C Andersen and about the 1001 nights and about the Maharabatta but the tales they told about and recognized and reproduced in drawings and dreams were Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck and Superman and Batman. And she was a leftist politician very conscient about colonial values and the incorrect political values inbedded in Disney's cartoons. But she was not able to stop the children being raised in that way. Ana -- http://writings-escrituras.tumblr.com/ http://maraya.tumblr.com/ http://www.twitter.com/caravia158 http://www.scoop.it/t/art-and-activism/ http://www.scoop.it/t/food-history-and-trivia http://www.scoop.it/t/gender-issues/ http://www.scoop.it/t/literary-exiles/ http://www.scoop.it/t/museums-and-ethics/ http://www.scoop.it/t/urbanism-3-0 http://www.scoop.it/t/postcolonial-mind/ cell Sweden +4670-3213370 cell Uruguay +598-99470758 "When once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been and there you will always long to return. — Leonardo da Vinci
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