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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