This guy writes pretty sentences but there's defo a subtle naz-bol-y vibe here. Anyone who's read Walter Benjamin knows he warns against the aestheticisation of politics, and that its what fascists do - go read Benjamin! This is exactly what he's encouraging....seems suss.
I'd suggest you go read Benjamin again. The essay you're presumably referring to ends with a call for marxists to respond to the aestheticisation of politics with the politicisation of art. What would you say is the difference? And were these actions mutually exclusive? There was still a distinction between the two in the 1930s, but its probably not one you're interested in discussing. I suspect your actual aim is to start some hysterical internet drama by insinuating that I'm a fascist, which is risible and absurd. What I'm proposing is that the distinction between the realms of the aesthetic and the ideological are becoming indistinguishable. Incidentally, Benjamin admired Carl Schmitt (an actual fascist) and wrote him a fawning letter and sent him a copy of his book because he felt their ideas coalesced around certain key points of analysis. Do you think he had "naz-bol-y" vibes?
This guy writes pretty sentences but there's defo a subtle naz-bol-y vibe here. Anyone who's read Walter Benjamin knows he warns against the aestheticisation of politics, and that its what fascists do - go read Benjamin! This is exactly what he's encouraging....seems suss.
you use the term nazbol seriously?
I'd suggest you go read Benjamin again. The essay you're presumably referring to ends with a call for marxists to respond to the aestheticisation of politics with the politicisation of art. What would you say is the difference? And were these actions mutually exclusive? There was still a distinction between the two in the 1930s, but its probably not one you're interested in discussing. I suspect your actual aim is to start some hysterical internet drama by insinuating that I'm a fascist, which is risible and absurd. What I'm proposing is that the distinction between the realms of the aesthetic and the ideological are becoming indistinguishable. Incidentally, Benjamin admired Carl Schmitt (an actual fascist) and wrote him a fawning letter and sent him a copy of his book because he felt their ideas coalesced around certain key points of analysis. Do you think he had "naz-bol-y" vibes?