Re: Art and capital: read and weep

[Wojtek Sokolowski <sokol@xxxxxxx>]

At 08:33 AM 5/1/98 -0500, valis wrote:
>==> Although the following artistic strategy _may_ be read as a veiled,
>    or even unconscious, statement of a direct relationship between
>    capital accumulation and sin, I wouldn't bet a small pizza on it.
>    In the real world of old imperial churches Christianity and capitalism
>    are Siamese twins, joined at the money belt.
>                                                                  valis
>
>     _________________________________________________________________
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>   Thursday April 30 11:26 AM EDT
>
>School under fire for dead-fish art

-- snip

>   In Yoon's piece, fish swim in individual, clear bowls closely mounted
>   beneath a see-through floor. The word ``sin'' has been written on
>   another floor beneath the small bowls. Museum-goers walk above the
>   fish and ``sin.''
>


Jeder fur Sich, und Gott gegen alles (everyone for himself and god against
all)  -- the individual bowls are the epitome of the unholy alliance of
christianity and capitalism.

Alas, I must point to an exception - Catholics are collectivists, they
essentially adopted the Aristotelian social philosophy: human nature is
embedded in the species (rather than individual), and just society is the
one that enables everyone to reach that collective potential.  Same concept
can be found in Karl Marx.


That, of course, does not mean that we should endorse that first
trans-national corporation headed by the supposedly infallible CEO in Rome,
that ensnarled the world with its organizational tentacles.

regards,

Wojtek Sokolowski