Re: [Pen-l] Hunger

[Louis Proyect <lnp3@xxxxxxxxx>]

> Louis P is right that if you were expecting Ken Loach from Hunger 
> you would be bitterly disappointed.  Hunger is not a political movie 
> and does not have the virtues of a political movie.  But it is a 
> movie about politics.  It is a consideration of the body as an 
> instrument of political oppression and as a site of resistance to 
> that oppression.  Politics is or can be quite literally a visceral 
> matter.  Louis is right that this is profoundly partial, but this 
> part is also profound.  McQueen is disadvantaged by his background 
> in the British art scene where the abstract expression of the 
> concrete has been replaced by the concrete manifestation of the 
> abstract.  But in this case he pulls it off and does it well IMHO.
>
> Terry

I think the British art scene is a crock of shit myself. Proof of 
that is the success of Damien Hirst with his shark in formaldehyde 
and his skull made of diamonds. As far as the body being an 
instrument of oppression, I seem to remember that from stuff I heard 
about 10 years ago in Social Text, but that was a different country 
and besides the wench is dead. 

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