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Marxism catching strays in the intro of a random art history book (hexbear.net)

submitted 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) by lurker_supreme@hexbear.net to c/art@hexbear.net

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Bonus nonsense:

Revenge of the Sith glazing

Glittering Images by Camille Paglia

I stopped reading after this horrendous introduction. I would describe the prose as Redditor adjacent. The author identifies as a civil rights era liberal and atheist, while condemning black art and Piss Christ. There were some pretty pictures in the book tho. I don't know who this author lady is/was but she sucks. 2/10

E: if you look this lady up, as many in the comments have done already, turns out she's a racist, transphobic pedophile. classic anticommunist

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[–] BodyBySisyphus@hexbear.net 25 points 4 days ago

Transphobia, justifying SA, general shittiness

Paglia has long rejected the scientific consensus on global warming
She said that the "cold biological truth is that sex changes are impossible" and that she rejects "state-sponsored coercion to call someone a 'woman' or a 'man' simply on the basis of his or her subjective feeling about it.
Paglia is critical of the influence many postwar French writers have had on the humanities, claiming that universities are in the "thrall" of French post-structuralists; that in the works of Jean Baudrillard, Jacques Derrida, Jacques Lacan and Michel Foucault, she never once found a sentence that interested her
Paglia criticized Bill Clinton for not resigning after the Monica Lewinsky scandal, which she says "paralyzed the government for two years, leading directly to our blindsiding by 9/11."
"In the case of Sinéad O'Connor, child abuse was justified". This was her response to the singer's action on Saturday Night Live, where she tore up a picture of the pope in protest of the unfolding child sexual abuse scandal surrounding the Catholic Church.

Lotta bangers in here, but my favorite has to be "Bill Clinton did 9/11"