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shared by Daryl Bambic on 15 Jan 12 - No Cached

shared by Daryl Bambic on 17 Feb 15 - No Cached

In an age where opinion polls and market research invade almost every aspect of our "democratic/consumer" society (with the notable exception of art), Komar and Melamid's project poses relevant questions that an art-interested public, and society in general often fail to ask: What would art look like if it were to please the greatest number of people? Or conversely: What kind of culture is produced by a society that lives and governs itself by opinion polls?
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discover what a true "people's art"
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shared by Daryl Bambic on 23 Feb 15 - No Cached

In a democratic, market-oriented society, public culture is hugely important. It guides our collective ideas about what is admirable or shocking, what counts as normal or weird.
- Daryl Bambic on 23 Feb 15
  
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occasionally as a sincere attempt to organise the world for human flourishing.
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We believe in censorship
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ensorship looks small-minded,
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enemy of a hard-won freedom
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book burning,
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intolerance
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he censorship of Diderot’s Encyclopedia
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ban on D.H. Lawrence’s Lady Chatterley’s Lover
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In the history of censorship, it always seems as if it is something of real value – profound, earnest and true – that is condemned and someone vile, corrupt and absurd who is trying to do the censoring.
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real threat nowadays
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we will drown in chaos
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unable to concentrate on what is genuinely important and good.
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key argument of those who attack ‘censorship’ today is to claim that we all need to hear all the messages all the time. But do we?
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