Syndicate: THE SOUND OF SADISM

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THE SOUND OF SADISM: WHITEHOUSE AND THE 'NEW' 'BRITISH' ART by Stewart Home

The problem with self-conscious extremism is its need to definite itself
against a social norm. In this sense, rather than challenging liberalism, a
group such as Whitehouse merely reproduce the reigning ideology. Whitehouse
are 'notorious' for their track Right To Kill, a slogan that takes liberal
ideology to a 'logical' conclusion. Regardless of whether Whitehouse set out
to arrive at a reductio ad absurdum, the notion of rights is very much a
product of the enlightenment, and remains so no matter how ridiculous the
results when applied to animals and murder. Despite their inability to move
beyond liberalism, as the Rolling Stones of industrial muzak, Whitehouse do
have the merit of acting as a waste-disposal unit for every trendy art
'theory' animated by that old idealist fallacy about 'the critical autonomy
of art'.

http://www.stewarthomesociety.org/white.htm

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