Analyst or Moralist?
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Analyst or Moralist?
what they say about contemporary culture, what they can actually do for audiences, and what they can offer contemporary social relations.
Jen Harvie • Fair Play: Art, Performance and Neoliberalism (Performance Interventions)
“The Liberal Principle: Checking of each by each through public criticism is the only legitimate way to decide who is right.”26 Unlike the other four, this last principle cannot be accepted by postmodern Social Justice thought. Theory insists that it isn’t acceptable to criticize some ideas. It also holds that whether a person is right or wrong can
... See moreHelen Pluckrose • Cynical Theories: How Activist Scholarship Made Everything about Race, Gender, and Identity—and Why This Harms Everybody
Here on my screen was the distillation of a peculiar American illness: namely, that we have a profound and dangerous inclination to confuse art with moral instruction, and vice versa.
Opinion | Art Isn’t Supposed to Make You Comfortable
An ideal production of Freitag aus Licht would not be afraid to actively undermine the ideologies that underpin Stockhausen’s aesthetic vision. It would not shy away from denouncing and Evan ridiculing the composer and his nauseating beliefs. It would acknowledge and actively decry the opera’s racism while transforming its message from one of oppre... See more