Monday, March 7, 2016

Benn: Artists and Old Age / On Capitalist Realism






Gottfried Benn: Artists and Old Age

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On Capitalist Realism























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Andrei Sinavsky (1925-1997)

Abram Tertz (Andrei Sinavsky) begins his brilliant 1959 essay "On Socialist Realism" (https://www.dissentmagazine.org/wp-content/files_mf/1410896620On_Socialist_Realism_Winter_1960.pdf with the following questions:

"What is [Soviet] socialist realism? What is the meaning of this strange and jarring phrase? Can there be a socialist, capitalist, Christian, or Mohammedan realism? ..."

Of course there can.

Therefore, the below five-part primer has been designed as a modest aid for better understanding a sometimes mysterious and complex thought-system  the most globally dominant, widely accepted and practiced form of realism to date.








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