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ce@siegeweather.bsky.social |
Essay by Jonah Siegel makes an interesting point: if you hold that critiquing the canon is a mode of resistance to the powers that be, you must grapple with the fact that *our* elites no longer go to art museums, see plays, attend film festivals, or read books. Moreover, they hate the people who do.
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Gwen C. Katz
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And if our primary mode of literary engagement is negative, that makes us very easy to exploit. If we're constantly banging on about "I don't want to read dusty old classics, they suck," that dovetails very nicely with rich guys going "You're right, old books suck. Close the literature department."
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joshua caleb weibley
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I’m not sure I buy the instrumental premise that this assumes. Isn’t this mode of critique more about the self understanding of the oppressed than trying to out-rhetoric the powerful? Because the latter’s just never happening and I’m not convinced anyone ever reasonably said or thought it would
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Anne Denoon
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Can this be read somewhere?
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ce
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Sure there are a few right wing Silicon Valley types who claim we should “return to” the foundational texts of Western Civilization but I see no evidence that they are actually reading any of those texts themselves. They are developing apps to do that for them.
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Rich Puchalsky ⚑
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I've seen this essay referred to on the TL in a few places, and i question the premise that elites ever really did these things. They funded them in order to buy PR for themselves and in some cases to launder or sequester their money.
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r
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The resistance is in understanding where we are and how we got here in order to tread a different path. It isn't about reactionary rejection. But that's a lot easier to dismiss.
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Jane the Bane
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the modern elites aren't reading a separate literary canon from the rest of us. by in large, they aren't reading anything they cant finish in under 5-10 minutes. by in large, they watching whatever is big on netflix like the rest of us.
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Nina Horisaki-Christens
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Critiquing the canon is a mode of resistance to the powers within institutional art and the academy. This is a different issue than the valuation of art overall by those with money, and the very fickleness of philanthropy is the reason it alone is an insufficient model for supporting the arts.
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Maaike Verbruggen
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Is it about the West or the US?
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Arseny
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They may not go to museums, but they like marble statues... (That said, it's precisely _because_ they don't go to museums, that they don't know how polychrome and "girly" these statues used to be... So maybe it actually proves your point! :)
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