If this is the case, corporations commit suicide. "Deskilling" is a way of killing. Boris Shoshensky To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Rewrite Date: Fri, 14 May 2010 09:08:18 -0700 (PDT)
Yes, precisely. Just as the corporate interests look for more and more ways to "deskill", to implement more and more methods by which the skills of the worker can be dispersed -- to machines and to cheaper piecemeal unskilled assembly, etc., so has the artworld become the new corporation that dumbs down the artist for the sake of prescribing art production. . wc ----- Original Message ---- From: Saul Ostrow <[email protected]> To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> Sent: Fri, May 14, 2010 10:22:11 AM Subject: Rewrite This re-alignment of the conceptual framework of the social function of cultural politics appears to be a result of the fore mentioned slow, and steady century long process of self-criticality identified with the endgame of modernism, which displaced the artist, analyzed and Out-sourced the fabrication of the object so in the end the artist was the person who authored the idea" whose source could equally mass popular culture, or critical theory given the equivalency of the two. But this shift may be thought to be equally an affect of, rather than the cause of the relative progress of appropriation, instrumentality, and subjectivity that has been taken to by many as markers of the creation of as egalitarian and democratic public culture. Many of those engaged in critical practices fail to take into account that the dissolving of the borders of the private and public sphere, which traditionally ordered individual interactions and communication, as well as societal communication and deliberation, at this time effectively brings public life structurally into line with the needs and social strategies of corporate capitalism.
