Comments on: The daydreaming element

By: Gillian

Gillian — Sun, 20 Jun 2010 05:00:46 +0000

I just realised I agreed with Arendt.

By: Gillian

Gillian — Sun, 20 Jun 2010 04:58:38 +0000

Some cultures use the kitsch to express the emotions with an underlay of cynicism, though. I guess it depends on what we eat with our kitsch. Kitsch with a dash of sarcasm?

By: kjbishop

kjbishop — Fri, 18 Jun 2010 02:35:54 +0000

I agree that the gold leaf and sugar help to bring forth emotions, but I’m thinking of where it goes from there.
Maybe a kitsch culture encourages us to live so much in our feelings that we become easily subject to the manipulations of kitsch, for both benign and malign goals, and less likely to act on reason.

By: Gillian

Gillian — Tue, 15 Jun 2010 05:05:21 +0000

Cultures do get kitsch teeth (I love that phrase, too). Rococo art shows signs of this. and maybe (just maybe) a particular generation of Bollywood films. The nuanced stuff is still there, hidden under the gold leaf and mountains of sugar, but it’s the gold leaf and mountains of sugar that help bring foth the emotions. Bathos and pathos aren’t really that far removed from each other.

By: kjbishop

kjbishop — Sun, 13 Jun 2010 23:06:46 +0000

Colin – I like to think that my thought processes smell like roses.

Alex – Tell them it’s your chocolate roadie and I’m sure they’ll understand.

By: Alankria

Alankria — Sat, 12 Jun 2010 09:48:11 +0000

A “kitsch tooth” :3 It feels like you’re caressing my brain.

I so want to take a pack-animal – a camel! – onto my flight home. Wonder what Qantas’ll say.

By: Colin

Colin — Sat, 12 Jun 2010 07:39:33 +0000

I’m work with sharp rusted pointed things all day. I don’t have time to worry about the hazmat gear.
Besides i think if my thought process could be turned into a liquid you would probably have some kind of desise that would make aids look like the common cold

By: kjbishop

kjbishop — Sat, 12 Jun 2010 01:49:17 +0000

Alex — that’s what a pack horse is for! I like the naive style of those posters, especially the women snipers in the lotuses.

Tori — I don’t think it was all that pricey, but I’ll check.

I’m having so many thoughts about how we read and write (and who are “we” anyway) that I think I’ll have to make a new post!

Kirby — I don’t think I’ve ever bought or not bought a book based on Amazon reviews, but I kind of find the reviews interesting as artefacts in themselves — snapshops of people’s tastes and assumptions and approaches to reading, a sort of scrapbook of readers.

Colin — Only boots, not a hazmat suit?

Gillian — Except (I thought of this yesterday, and I’m about to argue against myself) if the kitsch satisfies us, we might get a “kitsch tooth” — maybe we risk the emotional response becoming tuned to the exaggerated mode.

By: Gillian

Gillian — Fri, 11 Jun 2010 08:27:59 +0000

I love this post. You’ve given me a lot to much on.

Playing and dreaming are important parts of how we live and how we discover shared realities and create shared realities. If the exaggerated mode is definable as kitsch, then that might be a different function of playing or dreaming to the mode that’s not kitsch, but it doesn’t make the kitsch less important.

By: Colin

Colin — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 22:12:44 +0000

“is kitsch always a bad thing?”
I find I that kitsch thing like I treat everything of late. If I can’t dive head first into it I’ll look at it with the eye of a cynic, then try and dive in boots first