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Beautiful Trouble is a well-spirited web page. I think that most of the information is well resourced and helps to understand basic and complex concepts of social counter-activity that are relevant to always keep in mind while producing work. I personally also realize that most of the topics shouldn't only concern theoretical approaches as part of an art practice but they also should sustain some sort of code or responsibility in the production of any labour. I think through ethical practice we can truly disjoint ourself as labour units to a comprehensible use of our capacities for a more direct role in the different movemetns of society. What I mean is that labour is ingrained as our contribution to modern society, but through exploitation and economical scarcity we feel discourage to appreciate our value as working force and specifically as producers of a society that dialogues through labour.
I picked articles that I think that speak to me both as something that either I agree with as also things that I disagree. Overall the articles had that idea of moral superiority that I am super against it as I think that somehow installs and reproduces new mechanism of oppression to labour forces that mainly due to lack of education don't share the "moral high ground" that a -for example- a graduate student can have. Also I felt there were passages where "goodism" took over an analytical appreciation of thinkers as Marx or doubted Brecht authenticity, making the whole argument a little light and at sometimes funny. I also felt that a lot of articles had falsely assumes fact that usually populate the internet but that are far from the truth (example: Colin Powell covering a replica of the Guernica at the U.N).
Principles:
- Balance between Art and Message:
Interesting, because I think we are first of all dealing with and aesthetic problem. I think even if we want to engage political we have to understand that is through our tool to imagine and create mental thoughs through form. I like for example how Brecht use to said that it was enterntanment even with his reknown rejection to mainstream pleasurable forms.
-Anger works better when you have a higher moral ground:
Disagree, anger is a manifestation of a struggle that seems impossible to overcome to me.
Tactics:
Cacerolazo:
I love the democracy of cacerolazo and how it provokes and invite every individual to manifest. Cacerolazo is the ultimate and total disgust of a complete society against the power that govern it.
Debt Strike:
Money is where they really get hurt.
Media Jacking:
I think is relevant with what is happening today in the NFL
Trek:
I love how trekking share and mixes both a active/powerful action with the poetry of divagation.
Theory:
Alienation Effect:
Brecht is rather new for me but I feel very passionate about his way of thinking and producing work. I am personally trying to apply part of the alienation effect in my new narrative work.
Capitalism:
Always good to refresh the memory on the real struggle.
Commodity Fetishm:
I am not sure is the text was completely accurate in relationship to Marx theory. Also saying that Marx was a racist is a pretty bold statement for a 2017 blogger.
Floating Signifier:
I love this term and the powerful use that can have in the manifestation of popular agreement. Is a powerful tool to create consent. It reminds me of the Chilean Education Revolution where the consignment was "Free Education for Everyone". This kind of slogan move the society forward to a common purpose but they are elusive in the practice.
Political Identity Paradox:
Really interesting. I wasn't aware of this term and I think it is something we have to be aware of if we want to create a solid base of opposition. I feel that we the proliferation of the internet social justice have become more and more niche individualizing the causes and devaluing common achievements.
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