Down with the ideas!

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Down with the ideas!

Notes on the fate of post-modernism

Walked like a Dostoyevsky Uprising Square (then called Znamenskaia) and saw Belinsky, constantly coughing (already overcome by consumption), nervously bouncing and stretching his hands toward the new building Nicholas Station. Nothing is said Dostoyevsky.
Two hours later came back. Belinsky all the coughing, jumped, stretched, uplift. Dostoyevsky said, does not need a leading literary critic of the era in a comradely assistance. Why is he here anyway Rides ... a feeling that before him the Kaaba or the Cathedral of St. Peter.
- I often go here to look out how the building - confidence Belinsky said. - Although the heart so I will bring that post and look for work: at last we shall have at least one railroad. You would not believe how this thought makes my heart.
Funny?
Funny.


A lot of aesthetics and sausage

Just as Belinsky in a locomotive, the author of this twenty years ago believed in postmodernism. Thought about it just did nothing but facilitate my heart.
It seemed that the progressive ideas of import as well as possible consistent with the spirit of time and genius of the place. Let me remind you, the main thesis of the PM was the collapse of the "large discourse" that is, vertical zhiznestroitelnyh overarching concepts - with a positive assessment of the facts of the crash, and arranging for a seat of the kingdom of discourses of small, local ones. Instead of a single aggressive truth - many warm personal truths.
We just collapsed the Soviet colossus, typically, for a museum, a large discourse. On its ruins very much the way it was to build a democratic multicultural residence for millions of aesthetics and half a dozen religions. Perfect example right at hand shone Europe, which the Russians then just en masse for itself "open." There are in fact what happened? - There overcame Nazism, communism paired discourse hydra. And, surprisingly, really build a society where a soft, tolerant and open. Subversive alien drones multicultural two decades ago, there were too audible. In fact, even now, when the drones there, a European society as a whole can continue to be evaluated in the same terms (soft, tolerant and open-ended): this was founded by postmodernism winning margin.
How it will be enough, I'm afraid conjecture. May soon have to draft a European war to justify words like "more than half a century of warmth and peace - is unusually much." But in the nineties, in any case it was a powerful example to emulate.
We also like the first all went well. In the Russian world fell incredible wealth. Of course, working from Naberezhnye Chelny, or Siberian peasant did not immediately realize what it is I'm talking about. But for the inhabitants of the capitals of the sky glittered diamonds: so many books and movies, so many artists of all colors, so many opportunities - if you want the magazine organizes, sado-masochistic want a studio. Variegated "isms" blossomed under the tender PM-roof, and as the deity of this garden, BN Yeltsin, in a white suit, danced with an apple on a Buddhist holiday.
Another thing is that, even if you buy ten books a day, read it, it is still not more than one. It's like a sausage. At the beginning of reform is not quite believe that we can, as "they", sold around the clock (!) Store two hundred varieties of this tasty and healthy product. But one must - for sale.
But there is no happiness.


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malevolent observer easily prove the facts at hand, that in the new millennium PM obgadilsya for most tomatoes.
Flush with large discourses are not only small but also virtual reality, which is great until you zhresh drug or wander through video installations, but is fraught with attempts to equip her for the patterns of, say, the economy. Why is doomed financial system, understood as a game iridescent soap bubbles (and they do not sobstvennorotno blow, and were taken without permission to borrow from future generations), one can guess without expert analysis. If one person earns a keystroke on any forex panel for one second more money than zhoplandsky farmer for four years of hard physical labor, then sooner or later, the second the first hang, and not just throw a stone into a killer.
Postmodern demise Absolute Text intensified context (until replaced by the product of chatter about the artist's strategies), various agency functions, the role of mediator and commentator: that is theoretically substantiated the dominant position of bureaucracy.
As the vanguard of the PM - in the sense of promoting "correct" ideas - it was "contemporary art", to the extent it is a natural way to accumulate all the most unpleasant PM-effects. Not sold the product, and the concept - I do, maybe even like the elegant pinstripe art history, but also the product of a need, and then growing one after another generation of artists who have taught that the gesture is more important than creation ... and the sausage in supermarket, as text, not a gesture that could disappear.
A major figure in place of the artist became a curator, that is, a bureaucrat in the truest sense of the word. Curator nearly always more talented and prettier than the artist, but because the main function of the bureaucracy - to reproduce itself, and are buried in the swamp even the most lovely people. That up to the artist, the less young men and women with burning gaze, wishing rip open the heavens. They were replaced by the Knights of corporate positioning, which is the market kontemporeri art. Actually, disappears psycho artist as a creature who risks his life and destiny.
All ninetieth we whined that we - the horror, the horror - no museums of modern art in the two thousandth bourgeoisie has finally begun to build them, realizing that kontemporeri - it's not quite art, but simply called such a noble word pad for secular tusy. Contemporary art about over, it ran out of energy and ideas to fruition. I write that sour fruition, some say that is sweet, but the fact that they have already taken place, all have to close up shop, and we have the opposite: now, some shops and built near to the welfare of the self-sufficient institutions.
Interestingly, how fast will they collapse. Time something is spinning so that the sparks and the new bullet, nonvirtual challenges. Authors dirty cartoons of Christ's institution, of course, will defend to the last, for it is the freedom of creativity. But the authors of artistic raids of the Prophet Mohammed institutions rather izrygnut, because freedom is the freedom, and the evil Chechen come and murder, refraining from culturogical discussion. True, I know quite a few kontemporeri-makers, which said a conflict can easily be allowed in terms of "political correctness": Christ - the emblem of a large discourse, because he wiped his feet on the possible and necessary, and Mohammed manifests multiculturalism, and with it because they should behave carefully.


is not worse than a locomotive

The observer, tuned to the PM a friendly, catch the previous Glaucus in the one-sided and biased. He noticed that in any "change" the percentage of people talented and untalented approximately the same, and will be right. For each sample, he will counter-example. Will recall that, say, in the literature so far from the best authors notorious postmodernists Sorokin, Pelevin and Akunin, and that were filled with ideas of PM in the eighties and made his debut in the nineties, they are exactly in the new century have received the widest popular recognition.
This is true. Grew out of conceptualism Sorokin, stacking collages of images of mass culture Pelevin, rewriting the great literature of the last century Akunin really is an excellent example of post-modernism with a human face. Suppose that in their new works less and less artistic discoveries, or rather - rude samopovtor, the skill level of the aforesaid gentlemen are very high, they bake a good book. In addition, all three differ samostoyaniem noble and worthy citizenship, compromising the artistic development, they are not sacrificing principles (we have a wealth of experience observing how whore stars of the sixties have done in batches).
Strictly speaking, this I kept: it is not ideas but the people. Ideas, but the most heinous too, often there is a new composition of the lumps of old ideas. What to PM no declared peaceful co-existence and tolerance of other? - Yes all proclaimed. Postmodernism is no worse than a locomotive. The idea that the private right is more important than the "vertical sense, and now I'm cute, and besides, and it is quite relevant. The idea itself is rarely to blame for the behavior of its support and apologist. Communism in his (noble, no?) Quest for equality and fraternity was no more naive than post-modernism in the belief in political correctness. Then the smoke from the idea of fading away, we're looking - and fire somebody a bone.
When, in 1996, butting on the bridge over river foam PM in the face of Boris Yeltsin and Zyuganov in the face of communism, I naturally believed that Yeltsin - is good, and Zyuganov dreams of a gulag. Now I often think: maybe it would be better Zyuganov won? With Yeltsin, then won not so much a Democratic idea, but the aggressive mechanisms: nagibanie electorate, and no ballot box stuffing, I think, has not done. Zyuganov has such mechanisms were not, and therefore if successful would have begun a grand bargain, the alignment of interests, that is, the actual policy. And so - the policy began to choke up every Putin, and now we have what we have.


Short, but the individual morality

From the above it follows that if the author of the article and clever, it was mostly an afterthought.
In this regard, I am somewhat embarrassed to assess the current ideological situation: bryaknu something, and then he'll understand what I think exactly the opposite. Morality, however, is still needed, and I have it: beware of any ideas, dear comrades.
Treat others as brothers can be without any of Karl Marx. Strangle a autocrat - without reference to Michel Foucault. Believe in God - without humiliation of the Gentiles. To support "innovation" - without raising scientific Potemkin villages. A restore statehood - not for the revival of great Russia, but purely to cops and robbed citizens not to avoid running down the battery.

http://www.odnakoj.ru/magazine/main_theme/doloj_idei/

[Pavel]

Sausages good as the Soviet either.

[sur]

Сообщение от Tiutchev; 1539963"

sale does not work, and the concept - I do, maybe even like the elegant pinstripe art history, but it works somehow, too, need, and then growing one after another generation of artists who have been taught that gesture is more important than the creation ...

Сообщение от Tiutchev; 1539963"

They were replaced by the Knights of corporate positioning, which is the market kontemporeri art. Actually, disappears psycho artist as a creature who risks his life and destiny.

 Good article, but it seems not very fresh?

 It is time to:

Сообщение от Tiutchev

Interestingly, how fast will their collapse

[Тютчев]

Сообщение от sur

Good article, but it seems not very fresh?

 

sur, in what sense is "not quite fresh"?