On Friday, strangely enough, I was feeling very uninspired (well, that's not strange but what I'm about to tell you) and I decided to go back to the ol' dictionary and pick a word. The word I picked was Joshua, no lyin'. I happen to have a friend named Joshua who lives right down the street from me and also works with me. I decided to just throw five words at Josh (he's a creative fellow) and see what he comes up with. His five words were: anti-art, invention, support, unsound and lethal gene. Here's the result of this madness. Thanks to Joshua, friend and neighbor.
p.s. the dictionary definition of Joshua was 1. the divinely commissioned successor of moses and military leader of the israelites during the conquest of canaan according to the account in the book of joshua. 2. a mainly narrative book of canonical jewish and christian scripture--in case you were curious.
It's not that I am anti-art per se. It's just that so much art these days buys into the philosophy of postmodernism which is an invention of academic elites and their followers who look to make a name for themselves by pure word play, contradictory and unsound theories, and a mess of writing that lends itself to nothing but the support of their own kind with the complete neglect of class struggle or any kind of praxis that could help foster change in the capitalist world. With that said, postmodern art is usually as delusional as postmodern theory (are they not one and the same?) and thus creates a world within a world that is only known to those within this elitist world which rests like storm clouds above mankind. Therefore I support real art, real theory and real practice that has the aim of speaking to the people and not raining/reigning above them. And, thus, I must declare that the lethal gene of the 21st century is undoubtedly postmodernism. If the likes of Foccault and Derrida were still around I would kick them in the balls. Or as Marx used to say, "bash their ears in." My name is Joshua and I am an independent socialist. Thank you for your time.
p.s. the dictionary definition of Joshua was 1. the divinely commissioned successor of moses and military leader of the israelites during the conquest of canaan according to the account in the book of joshua. 2. a mainly narrative book of canonical jewish and christian scripture--in case you were curious.
It's not that I am anti-art per se. It's just that so much art these days buys into the philosophy of postmodernism which is an invention of academic elites and their followers who look to make a name for themselves by pure word play, contradictory and unsound theories, and a mess of writing that lends itself to nothing but the support of their own kind with the complete neglect of class struggle or any kind of praxis that could help foster change in the capitalist world. With that said, postmodern art is usually as delusional as postmodern theory (are they not one and the same?) and thus creates a world within a world that is only known to those within this elitist world which rests like storm clouds above mankind. Therefore I support real art, real theory and real practice that has the aim of speaking to the people and not raining/reigning above them. And, thus, I must declare that the lethal gene of the 21st century is undoubtedly postmodernism. If the likes of Foccault and Derrida were still around I would kick them in the balls. Or as Marx used to say, "bash their ears in." My name is Joshua and I am an independent socialist. Thank you for your time.
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