[PEN-L:2054] The PJs

[Jim heartfield]

In message <13978.20649.67239.746133 at lisa.zopyra.com>, William S. Lear
<rael at zopyra.com> writes
>I can't think of another show that better demonstrates
>that Jim Heartfield is full of hot air about "fine" or "high" art.
>Heartfield claims on the Marxism list that "The truncated and
>exhausted lives of the working class is the basis for a culture that
>is mean, small-minded and sensation-hungry: the television".  Murphy
>has shown that the culture of the poor (or "poor culture" as
>Heartfield disdainfully labels it), and expressive art built upon it,
>indeed has something important to offer.

You might as well say that working class housing, diet, and health care
has a lot to offer. 'Disdainfully' I consider that the condition of the
working class is not good enough, and that they deserve better.
Television programmes are (as I have good reason to know) commissioned
and produced under the control of capitalists, not workers. And, as I
argued, they are built around a truncated cultural life. If that sounds
offensive to you, I could put it another way: If workers had more free
time, the programmes would be different, and better.
-- 
Jim heartfield