I saw "Nostalgia" by Andrey Tarkovki, and it is so deeply close to what I feel like and what I'd like to be doing. As I was watching it, I realized that that I saw the movie before, but wasn't able to fully comprehend it at that time. Also, I felt somewhat different. Anyway, I will show the episodes in class. I'm also planning to show the episode from "The Mirror" by Tarkovski.
Here are a few quotes from Suzi Gablik that I like :
"The post-avangarde doesn't try to conquer the new territories or concern itself with radical new futures; it understands that the modernist impulse has exhausted itself, but makes no predictions about where our culture is going, or what will take modernism's place.''
"instead of keeping culture moving, nothing new is produced. This is the politics of drift, or "hovering'; Peter Halley calls it "rear-guard" (as opposed to avant-garde) action, by which he means feeding the culture only that which is worthless: guerilla ideas that know how to keep their cover; eccentric ideas that seem innocuous and so are admitted unnoticed by media mechanism; doubtful ideas that are not invested in their own truth and thus are not damaged when they are manipulated; nihilistic ideas that get dismissed for being too depressing."
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i find that passage from suzi gablick pretty interesting. it makes it sound like losing modernism is losing ambition or motivation - like culture became a couch potato...
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