[lbo-talk] How Politics Ruined My Life: Was Fuck Hope

[Chris Doss]

It's interesting and perhaps worthwhile in considering a work of art's "worth" in some kinf of extra-aesthetic sense, but irrelevant to whether the work in question is beautiful or not, which is dependent upon the emotional reactions it evokes in the observer. It's analogous to saying that right-wingers are less physically attractive than left-wingers. Sure, maybe you might think that supermodel x is less of a hottie when you find out that she's a KKK member, but then you're not reacting to her hottieness, you're reacting (morally) to her KKK-member-ness.

--- On Wed, 1/14/09, Dennis Claxton <ddclaxton at earthlink.net> wrote:
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> They're no more completely irrelevant than they are a
> legitimate basis for dismissing work out of hand based on
> the author's politics.  It's something else to chew
> on when wrestling with someone's work.
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