Re: [microsound] miles of styles of philosophes

[jeff gburek <tsazmaniac@xxxxxxxxx>]

in the case of the egyptians or fetishes we must think
of beauty as not only a relation to surfaces but to
the utility of the object. tomb art is designed to
assist passage to another world or to keep the dead
happy being dead and not have them bother us! in a
curious twist of meanings, i began to rethink the
realm of the dead as being capitalistic reality and
all the beautiful objects which keep us placated here
as being quite similar to these mummified cats and
monkeys you see in and around sarcophagii (which means
"corpse eaters"). our body in capitalism is made of
time. we are consumers of time more than anything
else.

--jeff gburek

--- Xdugef <info@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> 
> --- Damian Stewart <damian@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >There's an exhibition of Egyptian relics currently
> on in
> > the 
> > museum, and she was using it as proof of the
> existence of universal
> > art: 
> > it had been made for the purpose of being
> beautiful, and beautiful
> > was 
> > how she found it, despite knowing almost nothing
> about Egyptian
> > culture 
> > or what the Egyptian way of life would have been.
> 
> Hmm.... fetishes have been around since the dawn of
> mankind... the
> simple fact that someone obviously spent a great of
> time and effort
> inspires curiousity, awe and an appreciation of the
> skill and labour
> involved... I beleive this can exist otuside of any
> cultural
> boundaries. 
> 
> I don't agree that those items were made simply to
> be beautiful
> either.. unless in this case you consider a tomb to
> be the same as a
> gallery. 
> 
> -Adrian
> 
> 
>
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