On 4/19/07, ravi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On 19 Apr, 2007, at 1:06 AM, Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:
>
> I think it's not so much "methodological commitments" as structures of
> feelings, to use Raymond Williams' term. The default structure of
> feeling on the Left, including the Marxist Left, is probably a
> populist one that divides society into "an elite who care about
> lifestyles" and "the people who do not."
I get your point, but to continue playing devil's advocate: well, if
aesthetic factors are considered in the critique of objects (and
lifestyles?), isn't there a bit of elitism in that?
Aesthetics seems to function in part as a substitute for religion
among the irreligious in modern nations, regardless of classes: most
importantly, it allows you to create new subcultures or join existing
ones to which you belong.
On 4/19/07, ravi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I am not sure however, what they wish to save? The four
spiritless churches stacked against each other on one street? The
various strip malls dotting the state route that runs through the town?
The ugly as sin "colonial" houses with their feature-less flat fronts
and an electric candle in each window?
If this is the world I have to live in, I would like the faux-Portugese
house on the beach and the "outlet" shopping malls please!
I get your point, but it's not wrong to dream of a utopia, where no
one will be deprived of beauty, that can't exist yet.
--
Yoshie
