A problematic attitude of modernity expressed in art and culture is the elevation of the mundane, the mass reproduced, the "average" trash is endlessly picked apart and critiqued as if it has transcendent importance, see your average blogosphere listicle about any tv show/film.
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I really find the Marxist interpretation useful here. For Zen, like you said, its the direct experience of the thing in question in terms of its positive "characteristics," its fundamental "lack," and context – liberated of conceptual imposition.
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Contemporary art is hyper-bourgeois in that it’s a celebration of the mundane in terms of reification, and conceptual baggage. Not even an attempt to hide the crystallized nonsense
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Holy crap so true, the culture industry celebrates a particular escapism, an escapism that is just an idealized version of everyday life!
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Yeah - Marxists are real good at diagnosing social ailments, even if their prescribed solutions tend to be wanting
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