--- Carrol Cox <cbcox at ilstu.edu> wrote:
"capitalism, which always grows or creates extravagant disasters, both of which encourage creativity. . "
I was just wondering whether there might be an art phenomenon parallel to Naomi Klein's "Disaster Capitalism" -- where a successful, well-financed pop artist, like Mann, or Truman Capote, moves into a violent, blighted, neglected part of society and exploits it for shock value and profit. ???
BobW
>
>
> Dwayne Monroe wrote:
> >
> > Robert Wrubel wrote:
> >
> > Writers whose roots are not in the mainstream
> culture
> > may still have a lot to say.
> >
> > ...............
> >
> > So people say, with a hopeful lilt in their voice.
> >
> > In practical terms, this works out to be, for
> example, a story about a
> > Lagos family's angst instead of the dramatic
> goings on of a London or
> > New York based clan.
>
> There are occasional periods/places of extravagant
> achievement in one
> or more of the 'arts,' but periods of extravagantly
> low achievement are
> rare or non-existent in a 'progressive'* social
> order. *More or less
> equivalent to capitalism, which always grows or
> creates extravagant
> disasters, both of which encourage creativity. The
> concept of "decay" or
> "decadence" simply is relevant to capitalist
> societies. So those
> writers are around -- I don't know them, but I
> haven't been looking for
> them: slowdown of age plus other concerns.
>
> Carrol
>
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