Art comes, as I’ve said, from dissatisfaction and conflict, so how does it end up promoting what it critiques? Put another way, how does capitalism repurpose and weaponise artefacts which are profoundly at odds with its ideology? By historicising these, then incorporating them into the system of “educational metrics”, coupled with the idea that developed …
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Art as History
If Heidegger is right, that Art creates society rather than society creating Art, then what would this be like? Obviously, artefacts that are ‘favoured’ (approved of?) are, on a micro-level, passed down or passed around. Until recently, one’s taste in popular music was a shorthand for telling others who you were: you referenced bands as …
The Spectator as Ideological Construct
In cinema, as in theatre (as Peter Brook) argues, the crucial ‘character’ is the spectator. We can remark, in passing, that this is also the case with VR. All three of these art forms require a consciousness, a discerning subject, to exist (in the human sense). Put another way, and to widen the scope of …
How is Cinema?
OR Cinema, Perception and ‘Reality’… What do we see when we go to the cinema? What can we see when we go to the cinema? What distinguishes this from ‘reality’? Firstly, we see a re-presentation of the real; this is a standard response, yet it assumes that what we see as the ‘real’ has points …
Murmurs from the Forest 