May, 8th, 2015

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LES NON-DUPES ERRENT

No one believes in Modernism or its high culture any longer, all the formerly authentic sub-group cultures have become postmodern simulacra. What can this possibly have to do with popular culture? We replace let’s say, Fritz Lang’s Woman in the Win dow by the #KayneWest @KimKardashian Neo Arrivistes: from @Riccar doTisci17 to @OlivierRousteing to now the last modéliste @Peter_Dundas: fashion direc tors for socialac tors. Now maybe #FritzLang belongs to high culture rather than mass culture, but anyway his work was repressing the obscene, the nasty, the antisocial, the violent underside of life. But with our #Time.istas, it is, rather the contrary for revealing it: not a quiet, kind, decent, bourgeois role-cultural model. What are the intellectual and artistic instills of a #Kardashian or a #Kanye The Westener? #FritzLang’s has done the interpretation for us, by way of our #2015 capitulation to the cheap insistence on happy cheap endings . Yet this insistence on appearance now seems to bring us around unexpectedly to the whole vexed question of postmodernism and postmodernity, which is surely nothing if it is not a wholesale repudiation of essences in the name of surface, of truth in the name of fiction, of depth (past, present or future) in the name of the eternally recurring here- and-selfie-me. Not very #fashion able, at all. We need a renewed Magnifica Presenza. À la #FerzanOzpetek. What’s more real than a real fiction?

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