36. Among his reduced but still sizable body of fans, Woody-the-artist became the default defense. Artists under no obligation to be decent
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37. Polanski offers a parallel case with Allen: the aura of the artist is seen by supporters as reason to discount evidence of wrongdoing.
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38. Since I do think "art" and "life" can be viewed separately, I'm sympathetic to trying to appreciate Allen/Polanski in spite of acts
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39. The estimable
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40. Rather, I think the more fruitful way to bring this to an end is to bring in political economy & power relations.
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41. I know, I know: always with the political economy Jeet, you doctrinaire leftist!
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42. There is a money economy but there is also an (overlapping) attention economy.
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43. Celebrities are the 1% (or really 0.001%) of the attention economy. Small in number but outsized in attention they receive.
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44. As the plutocrats of the attention economy, celebrities have billionaire like power to reshape narratives & realities.
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45. Fighting a celebrity (with their plutocratic control over attention) can be as difficult as doing battle with Koch Brothers.
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46. It's the inequalities of the attention equality that help explain why abuse is covered up for years, goes unreported, isn't believed.
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47. Inequality of attention economy also explains why some very bad men (Allen, Polanski) allowed to rehabilitate themselves.
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48. Celebrity worship (albeit a pathetic Canadian sort of celebrity worship) is one of the keys to Ghomeshi scandal.
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