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October 23, 2005
I got back to Adelaide early this evening, had drinks on the balcony, dinner, then watched the Coen Brothers take on Hollywood, Barton Fink. The siren song of Hollywood leads to disappointment and creative hell on earth for a neurotic, leftwing NY intellectual playwright. There are lots of gestures to Hemingway, Faulkner, and Arthur Miller who lost their souls and their creative integrity in the dream factory on the West coast of the US.
I'm too tired to write about Barton Fink any more. So an interview with the Coen Brothers. They are into non-communicaton with journalists.
An eye catching image instead:
Destiny Deacon, The Last Laugh, 1994-2000
It is an example of 'urban Aboriginal art' . It is only acceptable to modernists like Deleuze and Adorno if it were a part of the art institution and so stands in opposition to the popular that is seen as the undesirable other, or worse, an enormous homogenising machine depriving art of its place and value in contemporary society.
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I'm not sure I understand your issue with Deleuze here. Modernist? The popular as the undesirable other? Which texts are you refering to? This is not my reading of Deleuze but I'd be interested in your point of view if you'd like to develop it further.
Great blog by the way!
Cheers,
Simon