Via David Thompson - "Mitigating Global Warming Through Art"
Music in general and art in particular seems to be a promising Archimedean point for multiple new life styles. Performing music and dancing... may be powerful enough to substitute the culture of consumerism since they enable a creativity-based self-autonomy as well as cultural self-sufficiency. “Back to art” could even open up the path to self-induced simplification in order to overcome the hegemonic consumerist environment... Humanity should not be primarily treated according to the logic of homo economicus. Rather it might be best envisioned as communities of artists.
It's catching on!
Clayton Magnet, now there was a fella.....
Clayton started dancing around, said he was gonna make it rain. Then he got all tangled up in a shopping cart. I couldn't believe it, Clayton Magnet, gone forever.
I have been touting interpretive dance as better than most seismic interpretations for years.
7-3 Canada . take that you Soviet leftovers.
David Thomson's blog is great. How about this thread, where the Guardian reviews, with great praise, an exhibit titled; "star city; the future under communism'. The reviewer says;
"I’m no art critic, but I was fortunate enough to be able to look at this exhibition from an informed, leftwing perspective – and I was very impressed... In one room, Jane and Louise Wilson’s film Star City, shot on location, is shown on all four walls using four projectors. It’s an all-encompassing, smothering experience, symbolising the capitalist state’s suppression of the individual for the sake of profit. "
The fact that socialism and communism are all about suppressing the individual for the sake of the profit of the state and its elite rulers, is ignored. Equally, the millions who are rendered expendable in these regimes is also ignored.
What is 'cultural self-sufficiency'? Does that mean that, for instance, the Islamic worlds ought not have cars, telephones, computers, electricity, airplanes ..After all, their culture didn't invent or develop them.
And what is a creativity-based self-autonomy? What does this babble mean? Does it mean that an invention is the act only of one person and suffices to keep that one person totally?
Since consumerism is ruled out, does this mean that the artist may not purchase his food, his guitar, his home, his ahh..bicycle, but must make all of these himself?
The absurd virtual caveworlds these sophists exist in, and their rhetoric echoing within these caves - it's always astonishing.
There's a great deal of misunderstanding about the Winnipeg Teachers' display. The lap-dance routine was just an expression of creativity-based self-autonomy undertaken in the interests of demonstrating Teachers Union solidarity, and the face-in-the-crotch bit was just the secret handshake.
Give your heads a shake...while making motorboat sounds.
Back in ancient greece, a group of men appeared, calling themselves Sophists. They were brilliant orators, and taught youngsters how to speak and argue with eloquence and grace. They also taught that there was no point in arguing the moral side, or the right side, hell, even the scientifically valid side of any debate. It was all about getting people to believe you.
Strangely enough, parents got annoyed with this form of "education" and issued a mandate to sophists all over Greece: Kill yourself or bugger off, or we're going to shuffle you loose the mortal coil.
I think we need a repeat of history again.
Isn't a society dominated by artists a ring of hell in Dante?
MY GOSH!!!! I GRADUATED FORM THAT HIGHSCHOOL IF IT IS WHAT I THING IT IS THE CHURCHILL HIGHSCHOOL AND THAT LOGO IS THE CHURCHILL BULLDOGS.... my ohh my ....i am 31 and that would never have happened 12 years ago !!! how aweful is that !!! i am sooo embarassed !!!!
that school had a great football program !!!
Paul in calgary
And yes it is a half french school sorry i spelled dogs wrong dawgs.
Clayton also always had a bottle of lysol to share also dp, lest you forget, Clayton, now there was a guy. Sadly died on the interstate in a shopping cart. The weather was real shitty out that day also.
Anything calling itself art but only conveying a political message is not art, but just an empty bag of tricks.
I'm all about enjoying the arts, including music and dance, but I'm under no illusions that the majority of artistic expression is economically productive. Hence the reason arts are essentially a hobby for me.
And saving the planet through art? As if.
You all scoff, but this would reduce humanities carbon footprint quickly. Once all the dancers and singers realise that nobody is making stuff like food and such, they will fall upon each other in a cannibalistic orgy. This would reduce the planets population to their more manageable amount that can subsist in a hunter gatherer society. And they could still sing and dance when they're done eating bugs and roots.
"Performing music and dancing... may be powerful enough to substitute the culture of consumerism"
Rock stars live like, well, rock stars and the 10 billionth iTune was downloaded yesterday. That culture of consumerism has been very good to music performers.
All I can say is that the Teacher's Christmas (solstice) party(drunk) must be a hoot.
What a bunch of left-speak bafflegab bullsh!t.
When talking about the arts one must remember that
the academic left doesn't mean Mozart, Beethoven,
or Shakespeare. They worked for money. Too
commercial. They are talking about musicians,
dancers, graphics artists, who cannot make or do
anything which anyone will want to see or to hear.
I am serious about Mozart and Beethoven
(and Shakespeare). The music of Charles Ives is OK because he
was never a commercial success.