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Daryl Bambic

Komar and Melamid: The Artists and the Project - 0 views

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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?
  • discover what a true "people's art"
Daryl Bambic

On the Role of Censorship | The Book of Life - 0 views

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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.
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      Daryl Bambic on 23 Feb 15
       
      The Sophists would have made this point.
  • occasionally as a sincere attempt to organise the world for human flourishing.
  • We believe in censorship
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  • ensorship looks small-minded,
  • enemy of a hard-won freedom
  • book burning,
  • intolerance
  • he censorship of Diderot’s Encyclopedia
  • ban on D.H. Lawrence’s Lady Chatterley’s Lover
  • 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.
  • real threat nowadays
  • we will drown in chaos
  • unable to concentrate on what is genuinely important and good.
  • 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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