The Òrga Spiral Podcasts

Illusion and Reality: The Social Sources of Art


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This comprehensive text explores the intertwined evolution of poetry, art, and human consciousness within the broader context of societal and economic development. It posits that poetry, initially a collective and functional aspect of primitive life, becomes more individualized and abstract with the rise of class societies and capitalism. The source analyzes how art, like science, serves as an adaptive mechanism for humanity, allowing for a "mock world" of illusion that enables the projection of desires onto reality. Ultimately, the work traces the decline of bourgeois art and the potential emergence of a new "proletarian" art as societal contradictions intensify, suggesting that true artistic freedom arises from an understanding and engagement with these determining forces.

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These ideas come from my own notes. My repo is https://github.com/smedum/topy-v0

This an open source project and as I am an independent researcher, this needs further collaboration with those in the field. I am quite astonished that I have got this far on my own.

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The Òrga Spiral PodcastsBy Paul Anderson