The Cure’s art was grounded in inauthenticity as an existential condition

Evidence

The suspicion that has dogged them is that of fakery; yet inauthenticity –as existential condition — was the Cure’s stock-in-trade. You can hear it all in the grain of Robert Smith’s voice. — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 1052

Categorization

• QUESTION: Interesting tension worth chasing: how does commercial pop render ‘inauthenticity’ sincerely rather than as mere fakery?
• XREF: connects to: Art redeems existence precisely by not striving to attain being; Art that claims identity with reality doubly obscures mediation — Anna Kornbluh, Immediacy, or The Style of Too Late…, 255; Art expresses utopian harmony negatively by embodying contradictions unresolved — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination: A History…, 549

Broader Connections

• Art redeems existence precisely by not striving to attain being #corroborates (0.85)
• Art that claims identity with reality doubly obscures mediation #corroborates (0.80) — Anna Kornbluh, Immediacy, or The Style of Too Late…, 255
• Art expresses utopian harmony negatively by embodying contradictions unresolved #corroborates (0.75) — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination, 549