I want to connect this thread on political philosophy of free will to cultural consumption choices that seem “necessary” in some ways. Things you might sincerely tag #mustread or something like Kanye West music which all my music maven friends tell me is a must-appreciate oeuvrehttps://twitter.com/vgr/status/1187751885790302208 …
I agree, it is 100% dubious and I don’t actually believe it, but that’s the point. Historicity is a construct that a) you can opt-in to b) has no pr9vileged version. It’s more than popular appeal, but falls short of an absolute temporality (which I argue cannot exist)
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i disagree i think absolute temporality is the mechanism which enables art to exist, in a large part by dissolving historicity into it--sort of an experiential vortex and as such, we are in no position to evaluate this kind of temporality, only experience it
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but my point is, there's a tendency when we get really excited about a thing or another, to treat it as a kind of transcendental signifier, by which reality is now "clear" this desire to acquire a talisman which can undo reality is a kind of magical thinking-through-aesthetics
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