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ours is a critique of forms of social mediation, not a critique of mediation from the standpoint of immediacy.
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alt text backfill (+ i forgot i had previously posted about this)
text of post is from moishe postone, time, labor, and social domination, pg 49.
Antonin Artaud, 1947. Photograph by Georges Pastier Used in Who Needs a Worldview, 146, Raymond Geuss, Metaphysics Without Roots https://x.com/nicoscosc/status/1836809845745537393 Yoon Kim @nicoscosc Antonin Artaud: “Any true feeling cannot in reality be expressed. To do so is to betray it. To express it, however, is to *conceal* it. True expression conceals what it exhibits. … Any strong feeling produces an idea of emptiness within us, and lucid language which prevents [+] this emptiness also prevents poetry appearing in thought. For this reason an image, an allegory, a form disguising what it means to reveal, has more meaning to the mind than the enlightenment brought about by words or their analysis. [+] Hence true beauty never strikes us directly and the setting sun is beautiful because of everything else we lose by it.” (The Theatre and Its Double, tr. Victor Corti) alison dj 7:' ') ) @alisondj_dj •17h I always think this about the modernist project against the postmodernists People assume postmodernism was a pushback against modern 'sincerity', but we never truly expressed anything The chaos of postmodernism I think is a closer expression of our humanity, no 'concealing'
willowFeb 8, 2025
willow 2/4/25 18:24 most people's politics are just shadowboxing against the concept of mediation willow 9/20/24 9:53 mooooom the postmodernists are doing humanism and authenticity alison dj 7:' ') ) @alisondj_dj •17h I always think this about the modernist project against the postmodernists People assume postmodernism was a pushback against modern 'sincerity', but we never truly expressed anything The chaos of postmodernism I think is a closer expression of our humanity, no 'concealing'