Fascist art can encode genuine protest against reified social life
Evidence
For some conventional scholars of the far right the current interest in the relationship between xenophobia, popular culture, and new technologies is little more than a fashionable intellectual chimera. They caution that the “real issue” is what is happening in terms of the ballot box and the macroeconomic and political trends that underpin political mobilizations. Such a view misses the importance of vernacular culture - be it mediated by technology or other forms - in sustaining what Deleuze and Guattari call the “molecular nature” of authoritarian politics. … In order to understand fascism, either in its generic or contemporary forms, it is crucial to develop a sensitivity to the relationship between politics, culture, and the mass media. — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 2542 (
#responds-to, via linked claim)
Categorization
- XREF: connects to: Art’s impractical existence is itself a protest against commodification; Art resolves real social contradictions through purely formal means — Fredric Jameson, The Political Unconscious, 1774; Art works expose social contradictions through their internal formal tensions — Peter Morey, Islamophobia and the Novel, 19 (+2 more)
Related
- Understanding fascism requires analyzing cultural expression, not just voting and economics. (similarity 0.88)
- Art resolves real social contradictions through purely formal means (similarity 0.80)
Broader Connections
- Beautiful art can transfigure atrocity and thus justify suffering aesthetically
#complicates(0.85) - Art’s impractical existence is itself a protest against commodification
#corroborates(0.82) - Understanding fascism requires analyzing cultural expression, not just voting and economics.
#responds-to(0.80) — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 2542 - Art works expose social contradictions through their internal formal tensions
#expands(0.78) — Peter Morey, Islamophobia and the Novel, 19 - Art resolves real social contradictions through purely formal means
#complicates(0.75) — Fredric Jameson, The Political Unconscious, 1774