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cultural value is being substituted for economic value, yes ... as
the state sells out ... to its own hunger for justification,
authenticity, that "altes Europa" rag ... and betrays itself. <br>
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Simon<br>
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On 18/06/11 22:21, Ana Valdés wrote:
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cite="mid:BANLkTim4nSKRH3rRZmXzqMWgHhSj51h-hA@mail.gmail.com"
type="cite">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>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Jun 18, 2011 at 1:17 AM, simon <span
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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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Best,<br>
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