When you start down this road you realize it's more efficient to head the other way. How many highbrows have there really been who sincerely didn't like lowbrow stuff. They were intellectually & culturally convicted as to its artistic emptiness & also they plain didn't like it.https://twitter.com/The_Fence_Mag/status/1529048550579085314 …
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One reason I gravitate towards Clement Greenberg is that he's lost out so completely that there's considerable value in trying to enter into the mind of someone who thinks highbrow art is just ... higher.
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One reason I always enjoyed Dwight MacDonald was that he realized that culture was being commodified, perhaps in new ways. He came at it from an elite perspective and bemoaned the loss of high culture as he understood it, but in his own way pointed to the sameness of culture.
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MacDonald is halfway between Greenberg and someone like McLuhan - or Robert Warshaw. I find it makes MacDonald extremely confusing to read, which is fun.
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