[lbo-talk] Crap architecture

James Heartfield Heartfield at blueyonder.co.uk
Sun Sep 18 11:52:22 PDT 2011


Doug: Oh, the awfulness of American suburbia, for example?

Yes, that was the example of social judgement masquerading as aesthetic critique I had in mind...

So, since you raise it, let’s go through it. The place where most Americans live, is awful to you.

This, you say, is not a judgement on them, but on the ‘social arrangement’ they live in.

That rather begs the question, are cities not awful? Some people think so. But most people with an ear can recognise that that is just hateful class prejudice, masquerading as aesthetic judgement.

Why can you not hear the same prejudice in the blanket dismissal of the living styles of the greater part of your fellow citizens?

Are the cities not also under the social arrangement of alienated labour?



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