[lbo-talk] Crap architecture

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Sun Sep 18 11:44:31 PDT 2011


On Sep 18, 2011, at 2:35 PM, James Heartfield wrote:


> Doug: ‘You can hate the social arrangements without hating the people, James’
>
> No doubt you can, but that’s not an aesthetic criticism, is it?

It'd be a pretty rarefied aesthetic that isn't embedded at least to some degree in social arrangements. Especially architecture.


> And since we are talking about architecture, it is not obvious to me what social arrangements you are talking about.

Oh, the awfulness of American suburbia, for example?



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