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“Fiat ars – pereat mundus”, says Fascism, and, as Marinetti admits, expects war to supply the artistic gratification of a sense perception that has been changed by technology. This is evidently the consummation of “l’art pour l’art.” Mankind, which in Homer’s time was an object of contemplation for the Olympian gods, now is one for itself. Its self-alienation has reached such a degree that it can experience its own destruction as an aesthetic pleasure of the first order. This is the situation of politics which Fascism is rendering aesthetic. Communism responds by politicizing art.
video: Come diventare un artista contemporaneo parte III - ilcircopolare on youtube [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=79Uo9KYfn8k]

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Fri, 18 Apr 2008 09:38:33 -0700 Express yourself (and ask for rights) http://oddtag.posterous.com/express-yourself-and-ask-for-rights http://oddtag.posterous.com/express-yourself-and-ask-for-rights txt: Walter Benjamin (1936) - The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction Source: UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television; - Transcribed: by Andy Blunden 1998; proofed and corrected Feb. 2005.
The growing proletarianization of modern man and the increasing formation of masses are two aspects of the same process. Fascism attempts to organize the newly created proletarian masses without affecting the property structure which the masses strive to eliminate. Fascism sees its salvation in giving these masses not their right, but instead a chance to express themselves. The masses have a right to change property relations; Fascism seeks to give them an expression while preserving property. The logical result of Fascism is the introduction of aesthetics into political life. [...] “Fiat ars – pereat mundus”, says Fascism, and, as Marinetti admits, expects war to supply the artistic gratification of a sense perception that has been changed by technology. This is evidently the consummation of “l’art pour l’art.” Mankind, which in Homer’s time was an object of contemplation for the Olympian gods, now is one for itself. Its self-alienation has reached such a degree that it can experience its own destruction as an aesthetic pleasure of the first order. This is the situation of politics which Fascism is rendering aesthetic. Communism responds by politicizing art.
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Thu, 19 Apr 2007 19:53:03 -0700 And the Work of Art in the Age of Internet? http://oddtag.posterous.com/and-the-work-of-art-in-the-age-of-internet http://oddtag.posterous.com/and-the-work-of-art-in-the-age-of-internet "Distraction as provided by art presents a covert control of the extent to which new tasks have become soluble by apperception. Since, moreover, individuals are tempted to avoid such tasks, art will tackle the most difficult and most important ones where it is able to mobilize the masses. Today it does so in the film. Reception in a state of distraction, which is increasing noticeably in all fields of art and is symptomatic of profound changes in apperception, finds in the film its true means of exercise. The film with its shock effect meets this mode of reception halfway. The film makes the cult value recede into the background not only by putting the public in the position of the critic, but also by the fact that at the movies this position requires no attention. The public is an examiner, but an absent-minded one." Walter Benjamin "The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction" 1935

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