Superbly put Rob. Bravo ! m. Rob Myers 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
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