1.29.2010

Other People Polemics


Post-modernity was the case. To refer to it was to authorize the remoulding of references, to reclaim it permit imbibing oneself in the trash of the XXth without having to reveal any preconceptions or attitudes.
The world had become a commodity, culture a simple commercial instrument, and the author its model.

They were going to ennoble what the academy of Beaux Arts hadn't succeeded in legitimising : the awkward repetition of already-consumed forms as a creative process and the sending back of all contextualized thought to a simple citational opportunist.
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