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r/truelit seems even more rampantly political than the NYTBR though. Any tips on filtering that out or finding something similar? Thanks for your post btw, goo
by 23B1 2y ago
r/truelit seems even more rampantly political than the NYTBR though. Any tips on filtering that out or finding something similar?
Thanks for your post btw, good response.
- adolph 2y agoThis always has something interesting with links to high quality discussion: https://hackernewsbooks.com/ https://hackernewsbooks.com/ (Not affiliated, just an appreciator)
- crossroadsguy 2y agoBooks recommended on hn are almost always books that are "useful" in the spirit of productivity and all that. Not that it's wrong, but it feels heavily tilting towards monotony i.e just one kind of books, sort of.
- creer 2y agoIf you look for it, there is quite a bit of science fiction, history (okay, often of science and tech), economics, etc on HN.
- StefanBatory 2y agoUltimately those books are the best. Fiction books don't have much of value, as does the rest of entertainment. If you can lean - you could study instead or work instead. And there's always going to be someone who does who will kick you from your job.
- a-french-anon 2y agoAre you for real? I mean, it's fine if your dream life is that of an ant worker where art has no place, but don't think for a single second you're the sane one.
- patates 2y agoNot the person you are replying to but I highly suspect it was sarcasm. A caricature of a stereotypical HN-way of thinking.
- a-french-anon 2y agoIf that's the case, my bad then, my sarcasm detector might need some more fine-tuning.
- chowells 2y agoAll art is political. Good reviews won't ignore that. Being aware of politics is a side effect of paying attention. Nothing you can do about it.
- retox 2y agoPeople can project politics onto anything, but art does not need to be political.
- fake-name 2y ago> art does not need to be political Art is intrinsically political. If you think it's not political, that's because it's just taking a political position you either don't see, or one you agree with. The only way to remove politics from art would be to remove the people.
- 8f2ab37a-ed6c 2y agoI drew a painting of a rock at the beach. What are the intrinsic politics of the painting?
- sva_ 2y agoYour gracious political leaders have allowed you to sit on the beach and draw a picture, of course.
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- patates 2y agoIs this art? What is the context? I can't tell without knowing the context. Who drew it? How did they draw it? Why did they draw it? What inspired them? Without understanding these aspects, nothing is art, or everything is art, and it loses its meaning. Yes, art is the projection of skill and beauty, but how we define skill and our perception of beauty also depend on context. You accepting the painting of the Mona Lisa as art tells something about you, while my grandfather rejecting it with the words "my 7-year-old granddaughter can draw better" tells something about him. This is inherently political. A modern art painting with color splashes is, in the most basic sense, not distinct from a 5-year-old playing with paint without context. With context, whether you accept it as art or not is political. > Politics is the set of activities associated with making decisions in groups or other forms of power relations among individuals, such as the distribution of resources or status. So even if you could argue that art itself is not political, you surely cannot argue that the perception of it isn't.