Art at Work (was/Re: happy xmas)

[Mark Kohut]

Bandwraith quotes:

“Fiat ars – pereat mundus”, says Fascism, and,
as Marinetti admits, expects war to supply the art-
istic gratification of a sense perception that has
been changed by technology. This is evidently the
consummation of “l’art pour l’art.” Mankind, which
in Homer’s time was an object of contemplation for
the Olympian gods, now is one for itself. Its self-
alienation has reached such a degree that it can
experience its own destruction as an aesthetic
pleasure of the first order. This is the situation of
politics which Fascism is rendering aesthetic.
Communism responds by politicizing art."

(Walter Benjamin, The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction)

AND it is the best gloss on the dive bomber Marinetti section
of AtD.......................... 


-----Original Message-----
From: rich <richard.romeo at gmail.com>
To: “pynchon-l at waste.org“ <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Sat, Dec 25, 2010 11:43 am
Subject: happy xmas


from chris the k, pynchon patroness

wonderful

http://www.dontpaniconline.com/magazine/radar/russian-art-anarchists-explain-themselves