But I think this is the state subvencionaed cultural model which is being contested in the newliberal system. The state as donor and keeper of a cultural status being paid by taxes is being substituted for the market and the idea only the culture who is able to be soid iin a open market can survive.<br>
A kind "survival of the fit" in the cultural plane. Very narrowmionded and dangerous, only mainstream culture would survive.<br>Ana<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Jun 18, 2011 at 1:17 AM, simon <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:swht@clear.net.nz">swht@clear.net.nz</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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reading with interest the causes and claims, from Nederlands, to Brasil, Slovenia, England, cutting funding for the arts and culture, I would like humbly to submit another explanation, other, that is, than economic expediency, or ignorance and gross (and net) stupidity on the part of policy-makers. The state is scared.<br>
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I would suggest that it is the institutional throat that is being cut, having seen a similar culling of institutions in NZ: cutting funding goes together with removing the autonomy of arts and cultural institutions, same as universities - any erstwhile politically autonomous institution, and therefore locus of critique. But when I say critique, I mean at the level of a power, which is that of institutions, of the power.<br>
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Where is the undermining of the power actually occurring that governments might be frightened? At a wholly other level. Yet the muting of institutional critique can be seen as a reaction to certain events, the recent financial crisis among them, the ongoing crisis around energy consumption/production - and its economics - included. I suggest this muting to be in reaction and to entail two actions on the part of states and nations: cutting funding to and removing autonomy from educational, arts and cultural institutions.<br>
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