IV VL Treatment of Mental Illness & Prison Populations

[Mark Kohut]

I don't know why I'm bothering but these generalities, however much truth they contain---and I will say 'a lot'--are simply NOT true as totally as the author says for many works of art that can be created by one, or a small group--film; music---of individuals. 

Artworks bloom where neo-marxist, any total cultural explanation of them, 
attempt to explain them. Artworks can be art by piercing such structures 
conceptually. Subverting even the predicted 'innovation and experimentation" BECAUSE it is predicted......

As a more relevant to me (and the plist, maybe) one of the deeper themes hardly explored in many discussions of Against the Day is 'the underside of culture' as blood, terror, spying and death to clightly change jameson's words........

--- On Fri, 8/28/09, alice wellintown <alicewellintown at gmail.com> wrote:

> From: alice wellintown <alicewellintown at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: IV VL Treatment of Mental Illness & Prison Populations
> To: pynchon-l at waste.org
> Date: Friday, August 28, 2009, 8:19 AM
> Fredric Jameson (1991) 
> Postmodernism or, The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism
> 
> two sections from Chapter 1 reproduced here
> 
> 
> 
> What has happened is that aesthetic production today has
> become
> integrated into commodity production generally: the frantic
> economic
> urgency of producing fresh waves of ever more novel-seeming
> goods
> (from clothing to aeroplanes), at ever greater rates of
> turnover, now
> assigns an increasingly essential structural function and
> position to
> aesthetic innovation and experimentation. Such economic
> necessities
> then find recognition in the varied kinds of institutional
> support
> available for the newer art, from foundations and grants to
> museums
> and other forms of patronage. Of all the arts, architecture
> is the
> closest constitutively to the economic, with which, in the
> form of
> commissions and land values, it has a virtually unmediated
> relationship. It will therefore not be surprising to find
> the
> extraordinary flowering of the new postmodern architecture
> grounded in
> the patronage of multinational business, whose expansion
> and
> development is strictly contemporaneous with it. Later I
> will suggest
> that these two new phenomena have an even deeper
> dialectical
> interrelationship than the simple one-to-one financing of
> this or that
> individual project. Yet this is the point at which I must
> remind the
> reader of the obvious; namely, that this whole global, yet
> American,
> postmodern culture is the internal and superstructural
> expression of a
> whole new wave of American military and economic domination
> throughout
> the world: in this sense, as throughout class history, the
> underside
> of culture is blood, torture, death, and terror.
> 
> http://www.marxists.org/reference/subject/philosophy/works/us/jameson.htm
> 
> On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 7:39 AM, alice
> wellintown<alicewellintown at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > Yes, the tone, or attitude toward the subject, is off.
> Tone is
> > achieved in several subtle ways, including, diction,
> punctuation,
> > rhythm, allusion, plus a bunch of poetic and
> rhetorical devices,
> > which, in the hands of butchers and demolition
> specialists, of the
> > language, that is, people like me, offends even the
> ears, not to
> > mention the crotch. Where does one get off? Why must
> one persist? Who
> > crowned you OBA's editor and chief? How do you not see
> the tomfoolery?
> >  If only I could write such allusive power! Alas!
> >
> > The Golden Fang Procedures Handbook, including Section
> Eight--Hippies,
> > deploys  Japonica .... Yes, even Ray-Gun has a soul.
> almost cut my
> > hair. But an IOU in California, as those living out
> there know, is a
> > special case. Warrant. It's also an Investor Owned
> Utility.  Now what
> > has this to do with NY Life's Golden Fang, the Ray-Gun
> homeless, the
> > price of water and oil, Enron and JP Morgan Chase?
> >
> > You can live without oil. Can you live without oil?
> So, maybe Enron
> > should'n't supply it to the people.
> >
> > It's a hard rain is gonna fall.
> >
> 
>