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Date: 	Wed, 3 Dec 1997 14:48:41 -0500
From: "kenneth.mackendrick" <kenneth.mackendrick-AT-utoronto.ca>
Subject: Re: M-FEM: On Beauty, Contradiction, and the Capitalist Sublime


> Don't the modernist poets you mention all end up mining 
and exploiting contradictions in capitalism as sources of 
aesthetic pleasure, the paradoxes productive of experiences 
of the renegade bourgeois sublime?
> Yoshie

If this is true then there is an interesting aporia here.  If works 
of art stem from and reflect the capitalist conditions that exist 
at the time of their creation then all works of art MUST commit 
themselves to a kind of pathos if they are to avoid the pitfall of 
pleasure....

In this way taking pleasure in art would be a kind of perverse 
internalization of ideology - since if one celebrates a work of 
art then one also justifies the conditions which create it.

ken


   

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