![]() ![]() 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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