tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32978906.post3950122350036310289..comments2024-03-27T18:45:16.950-07:00Comments on Fickle Ears: The Radical Restriction of Perspective?Stefan Kachttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03103517356905739209noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32978906.post-33033037872588971752024-03-10T07:52:36.231-07:002024-03-10T07:52:36.231-07:00Vytautas Kavolis
Artistic Expression—A Sociologica...Vytautas Kavolis<br /><i>Artistic Expression—A Sociological Analysis</i><br />(1968)<br /><br /><br />"<i>Increasing role differentiation may further result in such an expansion of the total role repertoire of an individual that, if he takes most of his roles seriously, a sense of the self as a relatively consistent and uniquely identifiable point of reference for his own behavior may become difficult to experience. The peculiarly modern phenomenon of "loss of the self" may be caused in part by role inundation, in part by the expanded awareness both of cultural diversity and of the subconscious levels of one's own personality, and in part by the rapidity of social change which prevents the personality from getting set in any definite mold. However it may be caused, the decline of the sense of the self seems to be reflected in art style by a preference for impersonal and anonymous forms and the more impersonal materials and techniques (including the production of art by machines rather than directly by the human hand)."</i><br /><br />(p. 183)Stefan Kachttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03103517356905739209noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32978906.post-51377333040906401512022-07-02T12:30:56.086-07:002022-07-02T12:30:56.086-07:00Christopher Lasch
The Culture of Narcissism
(1979)...Christopher Lasch<br /><i>The Culture of Narcissism</i><br />(1979)<br /><br /><i>"Sport does play a role in socialization, but the lessons it teaches are not necessarily the ones that coaches and teachers of physical education seek to impart. The mirror theory of sport, like all reductionist interpretations of culture, makes no allowance for the autonomy of cultural traditions. In sport, these traditions come down from one generation of players to another, and although athletics do reflect social values, they can never be completely assimilated to those values. Indeed, they resist assimilation more effectively than many other activities, since games learned in youth exert their own demands and inspire loyalty to the game itself, rather than to the programs ideologues seek to impose on them."</i><br />(p. 115)<br /><br />In <a href="https://fickleears.blogspot.com/2022/07/the-degradation-of-sport.html" rel="nofollow">this chapter</a> Lasch is actually too loose in drawing art-sport parallels; and yet he never showed the least interest in acknowledging or accounting for any <i>"autonomy"</i> of arts or of artists.Stefan Kachttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03103517356905739209noreply@blogger.com