Walter Benjamin on Art (was Re: Jazz)

[Yoshie Furuhashi]

>kelley wrote:
>>i however would like someone to make that case that music and the 
>>arts do matter to left politics
>As a prefiguration of utopia, maybe?
>Doug

Walter Benjamin wrote: "One of the foremost tasks of art has always 
been the creation of a demand which could be fully satisfied only 
later....Every fundamentally new, pioneering creation of demands will 
carry beyond its goal" ("The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical 
Reproduction," _Illuminations_, trans. Harry Zohn, NY: Schocken 
Books, 1968, p. 237).

towards a socialist culture,

Yoshie