Pinboard: bookmarks for jannon tagged 'pleasure'

Beyond Beauty: The Sublime and the Picturesque | GSAPPonline

"Manfredo Tafuri delineates...the "inherent opposition" of practitioners in modern art and architecture: "those who search into the very bowels of reality in order to know and assimilate its values and wretchedness; and those who desire to go beyond reality, who want to construct ex novo new realities, new values, and public symbols." ... this division ... stems from...the emergence of the eighteenth-century capitalist city and a new view of nature as both reason and sensation. ...the "reason" underlying nature serves as a model for notions such as structural articulation, type, and functionalism;...nature's emotional effects become the basis of a "science of sensations." Reason and "unreason" are...not distinct entities but...integrally related responses to the same conditions: the collapse of earlier aesthetic models in the face of new contradictions and tensions arising from changing conditions--economic, political, scientific, and cultural--that emerge...in the eighteenth century."

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may 2010 by jannon

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Lombard Street: Capitalist Realism - Belief in the Possibility of a Different Reality

"Like beleaguered figures in Kafka’s literary work Fisher presents our own horrific ontological confinement within capitalism, often drawn from his own lived experience, where every aspect of our lives seem to have been reduced, banalised, consumed and excreted out onto serving plates at an infinite banquet with only with one injunction—consume more . The tedious festival of capitalist realism described by Fisher reminded me of the Duke in Pasolini’s Salo screaming ‘Mangia! Mangia!’at the victims during the notorious ‘shit’ banquet. Some of the most memorable passages in Fisher’s book concern forms of popular culture which revel in this circle of shit, work which merely reproduces the flat one-dimensional ontology of capitalist realism."

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january 2010 by jannon

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k-punk: The Spy who never came in from the cold world (June 2009)

"And there are some of us, aren't there, who are ... nothing, who are so labile that we astound ourselves. We're the chameleons. I read a story once about a poet who bathed himself in cold fountains so that he could tell he actually existed from the pain of it. [...] People like that, they can't feel anything inside them: no pleasure or pain, no love or hate. They're ashamed and frightened that they can't feel, and their shame, this shame, [....] drives them to extravagance and colour. They have to feel that cold water. Without it, they're nothing. The world sees them as showmen, fantastists, liars, as sensualists perhaps, not for what they are: the living dead." / "Note the slide, in the quotation above, from first-person identification... to third-person disavowal... Smiley is no dysphoric by (un)natural inclination, but dysphoria is an occupational hazard to which he—so labile, so chameon-like, so at home in the zone where no-one warm and full can be at home—is far from immune."

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december 2009 by jannon

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