![]() ![]() ![]() This is where you get Shelley’s idea of the unacknowledged legislator, not because “the Artist” represents the guilty conscience of power, but because it represents a paradoxical consciousness: as the affirmation of that which it contradicts. Inevitably, to identify with such a role, strategically or otherwise, requires intervening in the system of expectations & meanings attached to it, in order either to produce new ones, or to sabotage “categorical being” itself. “ The Artist” is an abstract categorical being that (not who ), according to the nature of a given society, is accorded a “place,” a “function,” a “task,” all of which are no less imaginary (and paradoxical) than it is. ![]() How do these themes square with your ideas on the artist’s place in society? fakery), the burdens of history, and a deep suspicion of ideologies and institutions. Throughout The Combinations we see the recurring themes of authenticity (vs. Founding editor of VLAK Magazine, he also helms the editorial board of Rhizomes: Studies in Cultural Knowledge, and directs the Centre for Critical & Cultural Theory at Charles University, Prague. Born in Sydney, Australia, Armand has lived in Prague since 1994. ![]() As part of The Combinations Week, we talk with author Louis Armand about creativity, politics and the political, and the Prague literary scene. ![]()
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