[lbo-talk] Parecon Discussion...

[Yoshie Furuhashi]

At 6:53 PM -0400 9/23/03, Michael Albert wrote:
>  > In the modern industrial world, one of the reasons many --
>>  especially artists, whether or not they are paid to produce
>>  art -- cherish the idea of art is that art appears to offer a
>>  glimpse of an aspect of the world ungoverned by the logic of
>>  utility (be it utility for profit maximization or for social
>>  responsibility). . . .
>
>Actually, in the modern industrial world almost all art is fone not only
>for pay, but to sell things by duplicity..

I doubt that "almost all art is for pay" in the modern industrial 
world -- in fact I think the opposite is the case -- but do you have 
quantitative evidence to convince me otherwise?
-- 
Yoshie

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