ISBN:
9781845409180
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (183 pages)
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DDC:
306
Keywords:
Culture--Philosophy
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Culture Philosophy
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Electronic books
Abstract:
Can any of us entirely banish from our hearts and minds grave misgivings about the condition of the culture we now inhabit? Expressions of those misgivings are mostly unheard in public forums, ignored in the dominant media, and, if noticed at all, dismissed by state-supported bureaucracies and commercial vested interests. To have any chance of gaining attention, they must resolve themselves into coherent forms. We need to clarify our perceptions of the things that trouble us, by articulating and developing our thoughts about them. That is, we are in need of serious criticism-serious criticism, aesthetic, social and political-which is notably lacking in the contemporary world, especially in places readily available to the educated non-specialist, such as the 'quality' weekend newspapers, and especially, perhaps, in relation to the visual arts.The pieces collected in this volume are not presented as amounting to an overall account or theory of our cultural condition. They are offere...
Abstract:
Cover -- Contents -- Front matter -- Title page -- Publisher information -- Preface -- Notes on Contributors -- Body matter -- Introduction: The Disutility of Utilitarianism -- The Cultural Environment: Social and Built -- Built to Destroy: The Nihilism of Modern Architecture -- The Changing Profession of the Structural Engineer -- The World in a Form of Words: Art in the Community -- Politics, Values, Education and Language -- British Values -- Politics as Language: Language as Politics -- The Multiversity Has Lost Its Mind -- Bogus Radicalism, Cultural Frivolity and Criticism -- Avant-Garde Lite and Magical Thinking -- State Art and Its Commissars -- Turner in Our Time: La Trahison des Clercs -- Dangerous Nonsense: The Corporate Takeover of the Queen's English and the Cost to Art -- Criticism and the Collapse of Culture -- The Exaltation of Trivia and the Abasement of the Transcendent -- Celebrity Culture: '… a fantasy and trick of fame' (Hamlet) -- Conserving the Sacred in a Virtual Kingdom -- Back matter -- Also available.
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