1/ new Moldbug piece https://americanmind.org/features/conservatism-in-the-bronze-age/the-deep-state-vs-the-deep-right/ … I love this > Art...aims at supreme aesthetic excellence. It does not even deign to notice its audience. One thing I disagree with many of the pulprev, etc. people is "we give the audience what they want" I, for one, do NOT.
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7/ yep, I thought of this earlier and decided not to include it in the thread bc "no one will question me on THAT" (sigh) yes, art has to imagine / posit / create a standard of merit, which is more or less synonymous with an audience >>>https://twitter.com/random_eddie/status/1187479777902551051 …
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8/ So I tended to think along lines of "well, if Heinlein, Niven, Stephenson, and a variant of me who hadn't written this novel were to read this novel and discuss it, what would they call out as delightful? and what as disappointing?" goal: maximize former, eliminate latter
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I agree, of course, with all of that I'll note that my own particular form of creative expression IS performance, and I can no more ignore them than you can ignore your sentence structure.
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One can imagine a performing artist who doesn't care whether anyone shows up - let alone enjoys the work - but even so the performance is FOR a hypothetical audience, even if that audience never actually exists. ... but that's sidewise to your point, which of course is correct.
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