Posts by David Cauchi
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Yes, I had missed that.
And I'm missing the relevance. Please to explain.
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The argument, quickly, is that prisons cause more harm than good, and its better to deal with problems within society rather than sequestering them within an artificial environment focused on punishment.
Quite frankly, prisons are not intended to rehabilitate criminals. They've, along with police and laws, been around for 5000 years and have failed comprehensively to eradicate crime – cos that's not what they're for.
Civilisation invented crime. It needs it.
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Who is Rick Giles?
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Quick, someone find an unthinking politically loaded dismissal!
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Prisons should be abolished, along with the police.
Seriously.
Why is no-one arguing this position? It amazes me.
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You have not read Boardman; you attempted to deceive me and the readers of this thread. I called you on that. You are a fraud.
Jesus Christ.
No-one's come out of this very well. It's been very funny but.
And those Marian Maguire prints are horrible.
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That is the art practice we have today and which has been adopted world-wide: artists work freely, selling their works through dealers, works which are bought by public museums and private collectors.
Not true. The obvious counter-example is that many artists are dependent on patronage by the State: they get publicly funded grants and show their work in publicly funded artist-run spaces.
There are a lot of different types of art and artists, even just within the monolithic West.
This is the thing with these analytic philosophy of art discussions. They tend to be parlour games for pompous academic philosophers. They also tend not to take much account of the real world, preferring to deal with hypotheticals such as driftwood art or stone age artists rather than actual art works made by actual artists.
Unfortunately, artists are afraid. They whisper to each other about academics and curators who could prevent them from making their bits and pieces of rubbish.
Defining art is simple:
Art is the worship of error.
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Art is identified by the Art World; that is not circular. The Art World is everybody involved in art: curators, critics, dealers, the interested public.
You may want to try googling 'institutional theory of art circular'.
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Termite queens? Surely that's the ultimate central government...
Heh, except termite queens don't govern anything.
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I'd be pretty amazed if humans couldn't pull through. We're pretty resourceful, and still the only species capable of massive scale coordinated action.
I don't know about that last claim. Some termites live in colonies of several million individuals and build mounds up to 9 metres high.
And they self-organise without the need of any kind of central government or leadership hierarchy.