Wednesday, October 22, 2008
Letters Day 2
I agree with Jennifer in her interests in Porter's letter on page 66. I like how Porter relates art to something necessary. She says, "Man eats his bread and looks about for something more, and the something more must be art (should be)" (pg. 66.). I'd be interested to see Porter's take on the idea of the aestheticization of violence and politics. In my English3060 class we have come across an immense amount of aestheticization of violence, which brings the two ideas (art and violence) together, rather than battling each other. In this letter, Porter discusses the idea of politics destroying art...I like how she expresses the idea that art will always be valued, whereas the current ideas in politics, will one day be old news.
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I think that the idea of man looking for something more once the bread has been broken, and that something is art is a very interesting statement. In his essay "Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses," Althusser also discusses a similar idea. That idea is that in any society there are two divisions of ideologies (which are similar to Freud's pyramid i.e. ID, Ego, Super Ego etc.). One division deals with the economy of that society upon which ISA's are built. If the economy is unstable, ISA's will also be unstable. One ISA is art. Thus, if the economy is weak, art will also be weak. I feel that Porter often takes for granted the flourishing economy of the United States that allows her to write in comfort. One example in which Porter takes for granted the lush economy of the U.S. is in a letter to Josephine, which I mentioned in an earlier post. (143-145).
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