AUTUMN 2021 - REPRESSIVE DESUBLIMATION? - SOLD OUT

NEWS: THE WHOLE WORLD IS PASSED THROUGH THE FILTER OF THE CULTURE INDUSTRY: LIFE IS TO BE MADE INDISTINGUISHABLE FROM FROM FILM: IT TRAINS THOSE EXPOSED TO IT TO IDENTIFY FILM DIRECTLY WITH REALITY

‘THE COMMODIFICATION OF DESIRE’? ELUCIDATING THE REPRESSIVE POWER OF THE ESTABLISHED UNIVERSE OF SATISFACTION

NEWS: BY REPRODUCING THE REIFIED CONSCIOUSNESS OF THE AUDIENCE WITH HYPOCRITICAL SUBSERVIENCE, THE CULTURE INDUSTRY IN EFFECT CHANGES THIS CONSCIOUSNESS… FOR ITS OWN PURPOSES: IT ACTUALLY PREVENTS THAT CONSCIOUSNESS FROM CHANGING ON ITS OWN, AS IT DEEP DOWN, (UN)ADMITTEDLY DESIRES; THE CONSUMERS ARE MADE TO REMAIN WHAT THEY ARE: CONSUMERS

SUBLIMATION: A PROCESS THAT FUNCTIONS TO PRESERVE THE CONSCIOUSNESS OF THE RENUNCIATIONS SOCIETY IMPOSES UPON THE INDIVIDUAL (THE REALITY PRINCIPLE) AND WHICH THEREBY PRESERVES THE NEED FOR LIBERATION?

NEWS: PROFESSOR OF REPRESSIVE DESUBLIMATION JOINS FORCES WITH PROFESSOR OF HAPPINESS AGAINST PROFESSOR OF SUBLIMATION

THE MORE SERIOUSLY ART TAKES ITS OPPOSITION TO EXISTENCE, THE MORE IT RESEMBLES THE SERIOUSNESS OF EXISTENCE

NEWS: PEOPLE GOING TO RESTAURANTS REMAIN SATISFIED WITH JUST THE IMAGES PRESENTED TO THEM ON THE MENU

‘PRUDISH AND PORNOGRAPHIC’? THE CULTURE DOES NOT SUBLIMATE: IT SUPPRESSES?

IS IT IS NOT THE CONSCIOUSNESS OF INDIVIDUALS THAT DETERMINES THEIR BEING, BUT THE SOCIAL EXISTENCE THAT DETERMINES THEIR CONSCIOUSNESS?

THE SECRET TO SUBLIMATION IN THE WORK OF ART? (PRESENT FULFILMENT IN ITS BROKENNESS)

NEWS: FUN IS A MEDICINAL BATH WHICH THE ENTERTAINMENT INDUSTRY NEVER CEASES TO PRESCRIBE

100% PURE IDEOLOGICAL RECODING? INDUSTRIES OF CULTURE RECODED AS ‘CREATIVE INDUSTRIES’ - THE REVIVAL OF THE OLD ROMANTIC CODING OF ARTISTS AS ‘CREATORS’ IN ORDER TO MASK ITS PRIMARY FUNCTION: THE PRODUCTION OF GOODS FOR THE PRODUCTION OF VALUE?

NEWS: HAS OUR POWER OF SCHEMATISM BEEN STOLEN? SECRET MECHANISM DISCOVERED WITHIN THE PSYCHE BY KANT (THAT PREFORMS IMMEDIATE DATA, RELATING SENSUOUS MULTIPLICITY TO FUNDAMENTAL CONCEPTS), IS THOUGHT TO HAVE BEEN UNRAVELLED BY THE CULTURE INDUSTRY AND DENIED TO ITS SUBJECTS, LEAVING THEM (QUA CONSUMER) WITH NOTHING LEFT TO CLASSIFY, SINCE THE CLASSIFICATION HAS NOW BEEN PREEMPTED BY THE SCHEMATISM OF PRODUCTION

NEWS: PERSONALITY SCARCELY SIGNIFIES ANYTHING MORE THAN SHINING WHITE TEETH AND FREEDOM FROM EMOTIONS

THE MORE ART LABOURS TO DEVELOP STRICTLY ACCORDING TO ITS OWN FORMAL LAWS, THE MORE LABOUR IT REQUIRES TO BE UNDERSTOOD, ALTHOUGH ITS GOAL HAD BEEN PRECISELY TO NEGATE THE BURDEN OF LABOUR

NEWS: THE SPIRIT OF PAINTING IS LOCKED AWAY, USING SPECIALIST EQUIPMENT BY PROFESSIONALS FROM THE SPR (SOCIETY FOR PSYCHICAL RESEARCH), FOLLOWING ITS REAPPEARANCE AT WHITECHAPEL (THE RETURN OF THE SPIRIT IN PAINTING), AFTER LAST BEING ‘NEWLY (RE)DISCOVERED’ BACK IN 1981 AT THE ROYAL ACADEMY (A NEW SPIRIT IN PAINTING)

NEWS: THE MANIPULATIVE CONTROL OF THE MASSES ALWAYS BRINGS ABOUT A REGRESSIVE FORMATION OF HUMANITY?

‘CULTURAL CRITICISM FINDS ITSELF TODAY FACED WITH THE FINAL STATE OF THE DIALECTIC OF CULTURE AND BARBARISM’? THAT CULTURE HAS SO FAR FAILED IS NO JUSTIFICATION FOR FURTHERING ITS FAILURE?

NEWS: ART BREAKS ITS PROMISE OF HAPPINESS IN ORDER TO KEEP IT? (ART THANKS EXISTENCE BY ACCENTUATING WHAT IN EXISTENCE PREFIGURES UTOPIA (BUT SINCE EXISTENCE INCREASINGLY MIRRORS ONLY ITSELF, ART IS EVER LESS ABLE TO MIRROR EXISTENCE; ANY HAPPINESS ONE MIGHT TAKE FROM OR FIND IN WHAT EXISTS IS FALSE, A MERE SUBSTITUTE; ART HAS TO BREAK ITS PROMISE (OF HAPPINESS) IN ORDER TO KEEP IT?)

NEWS: THE CRT PSYCHOSIS? AFTER BECOMING (RE)INSTITUTIONALISED IN IONA STATE HOSPITAL, MAINE (FOR ART IDEAS), ARTIST ELLIS REDDING WRITES NEW INTRODUCTION TO REPUBLICATION OF ‘THE PROTEST PSYCHOSIS’