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Novembris 18., 2011
![[info]](http://klab.lv/img/userinfo.gif) f | 22:20 - : "adorned in dreams: fashion and modernity"
The attack on consumerism perceives our world as a seamless web of oppression; we have no autonomy at all, but are the slaves of an iron system from which there is no escape. All our pleasures become, according to this view, the narcotics of an oppressive society; and opera, pop music, thrillers and great literary 'masterpieces' should therefore logically be condemned along with fashion.
What is especially strange about Baudrillard's analysis ("Truly beautiful, definitively beautiful clothing would put an end to fashion. Fashion continually fabricates the 'beautiful' on the basis of a radical denial of beauty, by reducing beauty to the logical equivalent of ugliness. It can impose the most eccentric, dysfunctional, ridiculous traits as eminently distinctive." & "fashion is a particularly pernicious form of consumerism, since it embodies a compromise between the need to innovate and the other need to change nothing in the fundamental order. It is this that characterizes 'modern' societies. Thus it results in a game of change - old and new are not relative to contradictory needs: they are the 'cyclical' paradigm of fashion.") is that he appears to reject Marxism, while accepting this most conspiratorial of Marxist critiques of capitalism.
(mana medusmaize šovakar.)
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