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Brian Curtis's avatar

A hearty thank you for your manning the watchtower and then generously keeping us apprised of the intellectual and aesthetic convulsions that are plaguing the intolerant and illiberal left. As one who continues to toil in the belly of post-truth academic beast your observations and analysis allow me to better prepare for the next wave of pontification from the Arts and Humanities faculty who, in the words of Patrick Doorly from The Truth about Art, 'more closely resemble amateur political scientists, uninformed sociologists, incompetent anthropologists, mediocre philosophers, and arbitrary cultural studies practitioners' than the scholars of the past.' The saddest reality is that this progressive linguistic power grab does a great disservice to Odita's nuanced color sensibilities, his compositional inventiveness, and his impressive body of work.

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Lara Scott's avatar

Thanks, as always, for mych food for thought. I am interested in your thoughts on race and racism. There's a new hegemony on the move - if one can have multiple hegemonies. "Anti-racism" in the academy and in much of the visible art world has become something to trade with, not a call for real democratic evaluation, but a new power move. But I can't agree from the evidence here that critiquing Clement Greenberg equates with antisemitism- no offense, but that seems a little IXKendi-esque. But you are spot on about that painting, "Global".

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