The psychological need for an ‘aim’ or ‘end’ is inculcated in us by fictional narrative, made ‘normal’ by our talking of Being rather than, as Heidegger states, Becoming – the latter term though being a more accurate description of “human life”. However, even accepting Heidegger’s distinction, we can see here a connection with the “quest …
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The Fragmentation of the Subject
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 …
Murmurs from the Forest 