Just like the previous posters, I had a really difficult time trying to understand this reading. I kept reading it over and over and realized after reading over the ideas again and again I was able to come to an understanding of what I THINK Lyotard is trying to explain.
In the beginning of the article I was really interested in something Lyotard brought up. Lyotard comments on how the idea of classical is “out of style” and yet, realism is so destabilized that we have lost the idea of experiences. We are no longer able to experience and instead we are faced with ratings and experimentation. Everything we think we are ‘experiencing’ we are not and instead we are experimenting and simply rating that ‘experience’ with our past concepts. How I view that is the idea of everything has been experienced and now we are simply just experimenting with those experiences and rating them. In some cases, it is to make it better, but in other cases it is for the worse. This concept also ties into Benjamin’s theory we learned in class on Tuesday. For instance, paintings have evolved into this concept of photography and so we are not experiencing that concept but rather experimenting with it. It is confusing, but I don’t know how else to explain!
According to Lyotard, everything is changing and becoming different because of this idea of realism. When transforming the art into photography and making it better artists begin to look at the ideas of how our audience will enjoy it and take meaning from it in order to receive approval. This is house the ideas of reality multiply everyday. With painting and literature a split is occurring. Pornography is a good example of this. It is a mixture between photography and film that has been taken to a new level. Certain artists do not want to follow the rules invented by the earliest artists in order to become successful. They are so focused on becoming successful and getting the message, that instances of pornography occur as a result.
The simple things from our past, like photography and film, have been tweaked and taken advantage of in order to please our society and help artists become successful.
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Like we said, this is a difficult reading to understand at first but I'm glad you took the time to go back and read it over. You seem to grasp a couple of Lyotard's main points in the text and you deconstruct them well. Think about how the role of photography vs. art have changed with media's use of these mediums?
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