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i wish i had not posted last night after a session of drinking.
because the basic point in the post could have been said otherwise.
basically, conservatives really should learn to react less to some kinds of artistic provocation. they function often as a kind of inverted legitimation of the work they react to.
personally, i kind of enjoy how thin-skinned many conservatives are for precisely that reason.
i do think that you are going to see alot of work being generated that is explicitly political and explicitly oppositional in the coming months/years.
everyone i have talked to who is involved with making things seems to be coming to something like the same position--[[obviously there is no zeitgeist claim in this, much as i might like to make one---i am not really speaking about a "spirit of the age", about artists in general--only those i talked to over the 24 hours as an index of what i think is a wider response]]---people are shocked by this election--they feel powerless in the face of it---but they are already thinking that they should focus on their work and try to push it in a more political direction--because they understand continuing to work as in itself a gesture of defiance in the face of this.
i see it that way as well.
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a gramophone its corrugated trumpet silver handle
spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear
it make you sick.
-kamau brathwaite
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