“ There’s certainly an aesthetic dimension to the struggle – part of the reason we’ve lost is that leftism has become associated with the dreary and the de-libidinizing. We need to reclaim concepts like ‘designer socialism’, arguing that a left-wing world would be one that was better designed and more alluring than capitalism!
Capitalist realism: Is art the alternative?
Mark Fisher talking with Mike Watson. Mixed emotions on this one. Love it in theory, but can’t help remembering all those historical misses of leftist art and design. Especially in the realm of architecture and urban planning, oy!
(I’ll concede Russian constructivism, Rodchenko, in particular.)
Quote tagged as: art capitalist_realism mark_fisher politics
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Watson, “Capitalist realism: Is
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Socialist realism fucking rocks. Let’s not kid ourselves.
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Well, if you’re...or Owen Hatherly, you probably think Brutalist
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ajohnny said:
Especially in light of OWS, I’ve grown wary of this idea. Design is, well, *designed* to seduce, not to inform. And because taste is as much a product of existing social circumstances as anything else, “pretty leftism” loses at its own game.
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