Political idealism and psychological illiteracy tend to go hand and in hand - both eschew reality - the reality of the world and the reality of being human.
Idealism is perhaps what a crude world needs, but naivety is its neighbour.
response (0) tagged: neoliberalism :: the spectacle filed under: the Other :: in the absence of the Other
The world of the saga - the eternal battle between good and evil - infuses our world with ready-made solutions, but reality has a way of returning and reality is far too complex for the saga.
And yesterday, September 11, had an ominous and foreboding ring to it - and it became, once again, a day of unsettling events and news. Anna Lindh, the Swedish foreign minister, had been stabbed to death. Once again, 17 years after the shooting of prime minister Olof Palme, a politician had been killed while trying to live like you and me - Anna Lindh while shopping in a department store, Olof Palme in a street after having been to the movies - with neither body guards nor security precautions and thus vulnerable to life, and death, like you and me.
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According to the unemployment agency artists can only be listed as artists if they’ve got a diploma from the Royal College of the Arts or something equivalent OR if they’ve made money on their art. Art is once again defined in terms of a commodity sanctioned by institutions. Culture becomes a commodity sanctioned by academia and those in charge of the money and this, we know, is the bourgeois way of doing art.
response (0) tagged: filed under: the Other :: in the absence of the Other
- the cult of the book I relinquish the cult of the author I’ve always detested - the text there is
response (0) tagged: digital writing filed under: metatexts :: on writing
My 2007 documentary blog on my woes on the social web is now available for download in pdf. Check it out!
freewheelin.nu is a site where e-lit, installations, digital art, blogs and other texts are linked in a hyperdimensional space of underpasses, highways, rivers, bridges, tunnels that intersect in the art project Plastic Spaces whenever possible.
And there is more. Image music text and technology intertwined in digital art and textual [dis]pleasures - in the erratic vibrancy, evanescence and intangibility of the text/work - that interfaces with the erotic body [electrified].
