'The ultimate supremacy of Progressivism is no longer secure. Not only can it be hacked, it deserves to be hacked, by freethinking, darkly enlightened, heretical, reactionary artists.' -- provocative essay on the future of art by @parallaxopticshttps://parallaxoptics.wordpress.com/2017/02/22/towards-a-contemporary-art-of-the-right/ …
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Replying to @primalpoly @parallaxoptics
Is there anyone besides Moldbug and a few followers that have been talking in this line? It is an interesting read and all, but I think it very loosely fits with Trump/Brexit and suspect its influence is exaggerated both by its adherents and by the media using them as boogie men
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Replying to @edsonedge @parallaxoptics
There is a fairly active movement to revive traditionalist aesthetics and atelier-style classical studio art education, but it's a fairly dispersed network I think.
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Replying to @primalpoly @parallaxoptics
Sounds a bit like wishful thinking by the adherents to me
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Replying to @edsonedge @primalpoly
The piece was originally written in the immediate aftermath of
@realDonaldTrump's confirmation, in response the exquisite, existential status threat clearly perceived by good progressives, who sincerely believed that Potus = CEO of the country.1 reply 0 retweets 5 likes -
Replying to @parallaxoptics @edsonedge and
However, the core ideas date back much further, to my initial encounter with Moldbug circa 2011. At the time, the Neoreligious structure of the Cathedral appeared to map so closely onto the contemporary art world (CAW) that the insight was trivial + there was no audience for it.
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Replying to @parallaxoptics @edsonedge and
Scroll forward to 2018, and not only is there an audience, but a nascent strategy for opposing the CAW via an iconoclastic assault on the aesthetics of the elite status quo. The CAW is a highly policed ideological space, but an Inside presupposes an Outside, and it is towards...
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Replying to @parallaxoptics @edsonedge and
Can iconoclasm be destroyed by iconoclasm?
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Yes, because at its core the CAW is a signalling game and a status system. Iconoclastic heresy registers at the level of the progressive symbolic order, undermining the ""radical"" credentials of the systems cast of conformist drones.
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