http://tnl-6.local/taxonomy/term/100/0 en-US http://tnl-6.local/node/112 <p>With an accute sense of urgency the leftwing playwright Bertolt Brecht and the media theorist Walter Benjamin tried to formulate an emancipatory and anti-fascist artistic theory and practice. When fascism, according to Benjamin, amounted to an aestheticisation of politics, revolutionary communism was engaged in the politicisation of the arts.<a class="see-footnote" id="footnoteref1_r2rcbit" title="Ibid, p. 44, my translation." href="#footnote1_r2rcbit">1</a> Brecht and Benjamin (and also some of the Russian Futurists) mark the starting point of a participative paradigm in art which aims at using technical media in an emancipatory way.</p> <ul class="footnotes"> <li class="footnote" id="footnote1_r2rcbit"><a class="footnote-label" href="#footnoteref1_r2rcbit">1.</a> Ibid, p. 44, my translation.</li> </ul> <p><a href="http://tnl-6.local/node/112" target="_blank">read more</a></p> http://tnl-6.local/node/112#comments English Waves Benjamin Brecht electromagnetic Waves Mon, 08 Oct 2007 14:50:23 +0000 Armin Medosch 112 at http://tnl-6.local