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horacio's avatar

Thank you for writing this. I felt pretty moved by the DOOM experience yet I found no reviews that gave me anything to grasp onto. In fact I was really nervous taking my partner to it because so many of the reviews were poor.

However tThe moving part is crucial! I loved the movement of the audience and performers throughout the piece and enjoyed it. The critic voice in a lot of the reviews felt so stiff and only willing to engage in a text-image critique that left no space for body and physical experience.

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Aimee Walleston's avatar

This is really good Ruby

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Ruby Justice Thelot's avatar

Thank you!!

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Janelle Zara's avatar

It’s like Sontag said: “Interpretation is the revenge of the intellect upon art.” And, “The best criticism, and it is uncommon, is of this sort that dissolves considerations of content into those of form.”

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rachel's avatar

it seems like a lot of critics are just straight up bad writers and lack critical thinking. i’m not familiar with douglas’s work/doom, so i may be off the mark here, but apoliticality seems like the point? coming of age during a cost of living crisis, looking down the barrel of planetary crisis, and just living under general malaise will drive people to become apolitical; contemporary politics has clearly failed to deliver real, meaningful material improvements. the seeming absence politics is worth examining in itself and lambasting something for lacking in politics is pure laziness.

it’s indicative of misunderstanding of “everything is political”. it doesn’t mean everything will or should have a political message but that everything is produced under certain conditions and will reflect those conditions back.

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Celeste Aria's avatar

contemporary art died when critics began demanding socialist anti-capitalist identity rhetorics from all forms of self-expression

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Kristoffer's avatar

This is stunning. Thank you!

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