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"All art is political" is like "atheism is a religion". Obviously true if politics is everything to you. I'd call it 'true' in the same self-referential way as
by abecedarius 2y ago
"All art is political" is like "atheism is a religion". Obviously true if politics is everything to you. I'd call it 'true' in the same self-referential way as "dollars/bitcoin have value": it holds to the extent everyone believes in it. It's worth asking if the world where it holds is a better one.
- atoav 2y agoI disagree with your comparison. All art is political, because art relates itself to the society it is made in whether the artist likes it or not. Is a Nazi painter that paints totally apolitical pictures of landscapes while the genocide is happening one village over apolitical? i'd argue that this would be deeply political art, even if it wasn't meant to be just that. Taking no stance, while the world around you is happening is a political stance in itself. Being apolitical is also political – in a stark difference to various gods politics will also affect you and your life, if you don't believe in politics.
- abecedarius 2y agoI did kind of say that to the extent the people around you make all of life political, you can't avoid that constructed social truth. But like the value of money it's a 'truth' conditioned on a particular equilibrium. There's another equilibrium where pushy haters of private life are a small minority.