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authorgrr <grr@lo2.org>2024-05-20 02:48:47 -0400
committergrr <grr@lo2.org>2024-05-20 02:48:47 -0400
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\chapter{\textsc{Art} or \textsc{Brend}?}
-\begin{enumerate}
+\begin{enumerate}[wide, itemsep=1em]
\item Perhaps the most diseased justification the artist can give of his profession
is to say that it is somehow scientific. LaMonte Young, Milton Babbitt, and
Stockhausen are exponents of this sort of justification.
@@ -124,18 +124,19 @@ beyond art already occurs in his life---but is totally suppressed by the general
repressiveness of society.
\end{enumerate}
+\vfill
-Note: The avant-garde artist may raise a final question. Can't art or
+\textsc{Note:} The avant-garde artist may raise a final question. Can't art or
entertainment compensate for its impersonality by having sheer newness as a
value? Can't the very foreignness of the impersonal object be entertaining?
-Doesn't this happen with Mock Risk Games, for example? The answer is
+Doesn't this happen with \essaytitle{Mock Risk Games}, for example? The answer is
that entertainmental newness is also subjective. What is entertainingly
strange to one person is incomprehensible, annoying, or irrelevant to
another. The only difference between foreignness and other entertainment
values is that brend does not have more foreignness than conventional
entertainment does.
-As for objective newness, or the objective value of Mock Risk Games, these
+As for objective newness, or the objective value of \essaytitle{Mock Risk Games}, these
issues are so difficult that I have been unable to reach final conclusions
about them.