From: "Lowther,John" <JLowther-AT-facstaff.oglethorpe.edu>
Subject: RE: REVIEW of "difference/indifference" - Roth & Katz
Date: Tue, 16 Mar 1999 14:16:32 -0500



> From:	Ostrow/Kaneda [SMTP:so5-AT-is2.nyu.edu]
> 
>  As the practical and political questions concerning the role of
> aesthetics
> in the production of subjectivity (and identity)  come to the fore, the
> critical discourses  that  form around those  practices, such as music
> (not
> the mass culture kind,  which has long been the subject of sociological
> concern, but its other,) that have been represented as insular or
> autonomous, now reveal the complex reality of their subjects.  We now find
> within such forms of cultural production that the long proposed purity of
> the aesthetic experience which had been the heralded goal and triumph of
> modernist art constituted  a philosophical and ideological trope.  There
> lurked  within the aspiration and desire to attain direct experience
> beyond
> language and mediation, not only a metaphysical but also a symbolic  act
> of
> denial -- for this  non-reflective privileging of the sensuous as just a
> thing in itself conceals the nature of the construction, conditions, and
> order of perception that is affected by the social order.
> 
	can't help thinking that this sounds sorta triumphant

	have you no doubts remaining about these 'complex realit(ies)' ?

	)L


     --- from list avant-garde-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu ---