wauw I agree
On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 12:14 AM, Rob Myers <r...@robmyers.org> wrote: > Art *is* the specialised language. > > Being smart at medicine is no good when a car won't start. But being > good at quoting Theory is good no matter what, apparently, much like the > transferable skills of management. The idea that Theory is the proper > domain language of art is one that needs "problematising". Or spanking. > > I'd refer to my favourite theorists Art & Language to make two points. > > The first is that art is only a defensible activity if it does things > that cannot be done any other way. Reducing art to a mash-up of > fashionable cod-philosopho-political jargon doesn't do this, and *art* > students are within their rights to reject the verbal fetishes of this > cult in favour of actually making art. And/or theories. > > The second is that given the current march of a corporate information > culture grinding the world down to manageable, sellable binary digits > (cf Alan Liu), the aesthetic is not the conservative fetish of the > illiterate - it is a vital means of resistance. One that the semiotic > managers of Theory are helping to neutralise. > > - Rob > > > _______________________________________________ > NetBehaviour mailing list > NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org > http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour > -- http://www.bram.org http://aabrahams.wordpress.com/ Presentation studies for Huis Clos / No Exit http://bram.org/info/projects/huisclos/nu2s.html
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