#benjamin boyce

Identity politics states that you can’t look at things in aesthetic terms, and that means that everything is political. There is no way of cutting out the politics, and once you accept that, you simply can't use aesthetic criteria for discussion of [art]. This is exacerbated by the fact that postmodernism ― the anti-aesthetic position ― in that it states that you ‘can't discuss aesthetics, because aesthetics demands consensus’, on certain terms, on certain parameters, definitions of beauty and truth, and what art is and so forth. And if you’re enmeshed in the postmodernist worldview, then these are simply no longer touchstones for you, everything is relative. So therefore, aesthetics is essentially null, because no one can come to any agreement. So this gives you an effect: an entering into turning art venues into centers of political dissemination.

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