For much of the twentieth century a chorus of Wagnerites and Modernists has fixed the image of Eduard Hanslick, dubbed by Verdi the “Bismarck of Viennese music criticism”, as a reactionary curmudgeon trapped in the aspic of formalism and clinging to a narrow canon that began with Mozart and more
Both the narratives that immigration drives down wages for indigenous workers and that immigration is economically necessary are false. The truth is that moderate migration has economic effects on the indigenous population that in the short and medium term are mar- ginal and most probably positive. Any long term effects
We have a Treaty under which there is no possibility of paying to bail out states. Angela Merkel, 2010. [As of October 2015, total approved bailout to eight EU partners was 525.8 billion euros.1] There can be no democratic choice against the European Treaties.Jean-Claude Juncker (Le Figaro, 28 January 2015.)
Strictly speaking, iconoclasm refers to the destruction wrought on images by believers who think that members of their own faith have strayed from some ur-prohibition, for example the injunction against “graven images” of the Ten Commandments, or Islam’s prohibition of depictions of Mahomet and other visual taboos spelled out in
The reasonable man adapts himself to the conditions that surround him.The unreasonable man adapts conditions to himself. All progress depends on the unreasonable man. George Bernard Shaw A Conservative is a statesman enamoured of existing evils,as distinguished from the Liberal, who wishes to replace them with others. Ambrose Bierce, The
Another problematic aspect of the contemporary art scene is the role of the state in promoting culture, which inevitably includes a good deal of junk culture. Much questionable artistic production today is financially underpinned by taxpayer’s money and the art of extracting money from the state for art projects is
The art object, as a newly victorious fetish (and not the sad, alienated fetish) must work to deconstruct its traditional aura, its authority, its power of illusion to stand out in the pure obscenity of commodity.(1) Jean Baudrillard “How useless is painting”, wrote Pascal, “which attracts admiration by the resemblance
British election result in parliamentary seats: Conservatives 331 (27 more than in 2010);Labour 232 (26 less than in 2010);Liberal Democrats 8 (49 less than in 2010);Scottish Nationalists 56 (50 more than in 2010);United Kingdom Independence Party -UKIP 1 (a loss of 1 seat from the two they had);22 others. On
“Everywhere in the [French] middle classes ‘bourgeois bolshevism’ is thriving.There is no artist, no journalist, no actor who does not claim to be subversive, especially if he or she receives a government subsidy.”(Pascal Bruckner: The Tyranny of Guilt) “Thinkers from Gadamer to Derrida have contested the claims of the Enlightenment
The people, says Burke, should not be trusted as advisers on policy or even necessarily as true reckoners of their interests in the short run, but they are always the best judges of their own oppression – so much so that we ought to fear any power on earth that
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