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Originally Posted by dead_battery
i live surrounded by bumpkins who think electricity is witchcraft.
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In a way that's my point. Not that you live around bumpkins but that the curvilinear, for me the defining 'shape' of a postmodern/neoliberal aesthetic, just as the square defined modernism's, remystified technology, in a way turning electricity back into witchcraft. Postmodern theory did this to the point where we were encouraged to admire the elegance of its argument more than its practical use, going from theory as tool to theory as art. Everything has become aestheticised, including protest. The Libertines lyric, "did you see the stylish kids in the riot?" Nails it. Death by elegance.