Butler, Foucault, and Caravaggio

[Michael Hoover]

> Rakesh wrote:
> >So with Warhol's shoes there is an actual celebration
> >of mass production and consumption. There is no sense of ironic detachment.
> >Warhol just reproduces the commodity form. Simply an icon to
> >the commodity. Interesting indeed but just doesn't seem to have the same
> >critical function.


> What of Andy Warhol? I think that Warhol's work may be read as palimpsests,
> with death as an underwriting of commodity fetishism. (I suppose it all
> depends on who reads it.)
> Yoshie

'Being good is business is the most fascinating kind of art...making
money is art...and good business is the best art.'
Andy Warhol, _The Philosophy of Andy Warhol (From A to B and Back
Again)_, 1975, p. 92

Michael Hoover