There’s certainly an aesthetic dimension to the struggle – part of the reason we’ve lost is that leftism has become associated with the dreary and the de-libidinizing. We need to reclaim concepts like ‘designer socialism’, arguing that a left-wing world would be one that was better designed and more alluring than capitalism!
- Mark Fisher talking with Mike Watson, “Capitalist realism: Is art the alternative?”
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Watson, “Capitalist realism: Is
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Socialist realism fucking rocks. Let’s not kid ourselves.
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Well, if you’re...or Owen Hatherly, you probably think Brutalist
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ajohnny said:
Especially in light of OWS, I’ve grown wary of this idea. Design is, well, *designed* to seduce, not to inform. And because taste is as much a product of existing social circumstances as anything else, “pretty leftism” loses at its own game.
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