“I criticized neorealism for remaining subjective and lyricizing, which was another feature of the cultural epoch before the Resistance. So, neorealism is a cultural product of the Resistance in regard to its content and message, but stylistically it is still tied to pre-Resistance culture. Basically there is something rather hybrid about it. Anyway, if you …
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Rethinking Realism in times of Trauma and Capitalism
Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative? 2009 Author: Mark FisherThe book analyses the development and principal features of capitalist realism as a lived ideological framework. Using examples from politics, films, fiction, work and education, it argues that capitalist realism colours all areas of contemporary experience. Traumatic Realism 2000 Author: Michael RothbergAnalyzes the impact of historical …
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Poetics and Politics 4: Against Story
The End – According to Badiou
Living in the post-traumatic age – after Auschwitz – and still witnessing on a daily basis various forms of barbarism ranging from local wars, nationalisms, to classism, racism, sexism and numerous other yet-to-be-named ‘-isms’, we have reached the point when awareness of our own being has been radically shaken. Self-doubt prompted many academics to depressively …
Theses on the Art of Today
Variations on Badiou’s Fifteen Theses on Contemporary Art The times of great anticipation and prophecy of the future have passed long ago, and we have all been in a time that is neither present nor past nor future in some time we have called a time of crisis. So, art in this time of crisis, …