It is among the hopeful signs...

"Nibby" (nibby68) 10/08/2014 at 14:27 • Filed to: ART

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in the midst of the decay of our present society that we — some of us — have been unwilling to accept this last phase for our own culture. In seeking to go beyond Alexandrianism, a part of Western bourgeois society has produced something unheard of heretofore: — avant-garde culture.

A superior consciousness of history — more precisely, the appearance of a new kind of criticism of society, an historical criticism — made this possible.

This criticism has not confronted our present society with timeless utopias, but has soberly examined in the terms of history and of cause and effect the antecedents, justifications and functions of the forms that lie at the heart of every society. Thus our present bourgeois social order was shown to be, not an eternal, "natural" condition of life, but simply the latest term in a succession of social orders.

Arch Duke Maxyenko, Shit Talk Extraordinaire > Nibby 10/08/2014 at 14:32

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This is now a Spider thread

Nibby > Arch Duke Maxyenko, Shit Talk Extraordinaire 10/08/2014 at 14:33

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by Louise Bourgeois

ly2v8-Brian > Arch Duke Maxyenko, Shit Talk Extraordinaire 10/08/2014 at 14:33

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That there, what you did. I see it.

For Sweden > Arch Duke Maxyenko, Shit Talk Extraordinaire 10/08/2014 at 14:36

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EL_ULY > Nibby 10/08/2014 at 14:40

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DoYouEvenShift > Arch Duke Maxyenko, Shit Talk Extraordinaire 10/08/2014 at 14:40

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May she rest in piece.

Nibby > EL_ULY 10/08/2014 at 14:43

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Clement Greenberg, yo. Check your art history.

 V8 Rustler > Arch Duke Maxyenko, Shit Talk Extraordinaire 10/08/2014 at 14:45

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Spiderman thread? Spiderman thread.

ClassicDatsunDebate > Nibby 10/08/2014 at 14:59

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Towards a Newer Lagonda

user314 > Arch Duke Maxyenko, Shit Talk Extraordinaire 10/08/2014 at 15:22

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