tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post5908323681938048454..comments2024-01-28T03:56:39.351-08:00Comments on TOM CLARK: Walter Benjamin: Theory of DistractionUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-62058650739449711702011-05-26T05:28:16.105-07:002011-05-26T05:28:16.105-07:00Robb, Something tells me that while the work of ar...Robb, Something tells me that while the work of art in the age of mechanical reproduction was Walter Benjamin's brainchild, if he were dropped back aboard the planet tomorrow, he might, once he got over the shock and once his head stopped spinning around in circles like that of Linda Blair in the Exorcist, have wondered whether he had created <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:AndreTheGiantSticker.gif" rel="nofollow">a monster</a>.<br /><br />Absolutely, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:2008-0602-SF-Obeyclothing.jpg" rel="nofollow">Obey the Giant is infinitely reproducible</a>.<br /><br />Now even <a href="http://www.swarthmore.edu/NatSci/cpurrin1/evolk12/posse/chazhasaposse.htm" rel="nofollow">Charles Darwin Has a Posse</a>.TChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-41877398415345609512011-05-25T18:31:54.237-07:002011-05-25T18:31:54.237-07:00"This may happen in two different ways: throu..."This may happen in two different ways: through consignment of the art-work to fashion or through the work's refunctioning in politics<br /><br />"Reproducibility -- distraction -- politicization"<br /><br />Am I wrong to think of Shepard Fairey?<br /><br />"subston"Robbhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12312524900784740898noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-1471657219490789652011-05-25T06:21:43.976-07:002011-05-25T06:21:43.976-07:00Curtis,
One gets the feeling from these notes th...Curtis, <br /><br />One gets the feeling from these notes that Benjamin, caught up in his admiration for Brecht as the herald ("the optimal case") of a utopian condition of "Author as Producer", fabricating mechanically repoducible works to educate the proletariat, has some difficulty overcoming his own incompletely disguised hesitation about the new dawn even as he salutes it. <br /><br />Ahead and never to be known to him lay vistas of distraction untold.TChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-83680041812870103432011-05-24T16:16:11.123-07:002011-05-24T16:16:11.123-07:00It's difficult to know where to start (or end)...It's difficult to know where to start (or end), so I would just like to say that I think this is very fine. The combination of words, images and subtle colors triggers in my mind and imagination a feeling similar to the one I had a long time ago when I first read the notes and saw the images contained in the Green Box. It wrestles (gracefully, honestly and purposively) with basic, important things. I think this particular human animal has been searching for a theory of distraction for some time.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-90789368852005377082011-05-24T07:06:44.385-07:002011-05-24T07:06:44.385-07:00Tom,
Just as the art of the Greeks was geared tow...Tom,<br /><br />Just as the art of the Greeks was geared toward lasting, so the art of the present is geared toward becoming worn out<br />. . . .<br /><br />Reproducibility -- distraction -- politicization<br /><br />(more food for thought, thanks. . . .)STEPHEN RATCLIFFEhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12339481653546188412noreply@blogger.com