/lit/ - Literature

>>12649748
ever see this one? my all-time favorite movie.

>>9723160
>So what you need is a suppression of the political. But the cat's out of the bag, and maybe politics can be nudged along so that it reveals more than it serves the purposes of power.
Could be. To my mind Deleuze has the idea here, doesn't he? The thing either *is* your inner despot speaking or it isn't. I guess it depends on the art and the artist and the infinite spaces therein. I don't know about art nudging politics. The final test for me is whether Art succeeds at becoming something more than pornography or propaganda.

>Art masquerading as politics gives me this uneasiness. Because it strikes me as cynical. And ofc "activist art" inevitably is complicit with the media. It must grab attention.
True.

>It's a kind of violence done to art, when you use art as a weapon. There's also an unawareness in activist art because the politics they espouse are predictable. The politics are prior to activist art, it's almost never the case that this kind of art generates a new kind of politics.
This is why I metaphysics > politics. I like art as that which gets beyond politics. Girard's novelistic sensibility. Something there about desires overcome and understood and transmitted to the human sciences. Not the same as mass consumption. Something much bigger.

>he politics are prior to activist art, it's almost never the case that this kind of art generates a new kind of politics. Maybe i'm wrong, if you could mention any counterexamples that would be great.
I mean I can't mention one in specific, but I'll go to one of my go-to favourites. What is the correct political reading of pic related? It doesn't have one. It's a piece of literature. You'll never get, to my mind, to the bottom of it. It is what it is. It passes all tests.

Anyways, Best Anon, I have to go out for a bit. Will check back on this later. Thanks as always for the conversation. Looking forward to picking this up again soon.