Show threadclint verdonschotSep 6, 2023
It is sometimes thought and argued (a.o. by Noam #Chomsky, Raymond #Geuss, and Roger #Scruton), that #architecture is inherently #political. Saul Fisher argues otherwise in his contribution to #AesthInv20231. On the basis that not all built structures serve political ends, and moreover that built structures are not all there is to architecture, Fisher makes the case that architecture is only sometimes, and then only contingently, political
https://aestheticinvestigations.eu/article/view/12162
Architecture, Buildings, and Political Ends | Aesthetic Investigations

journal of aesthetics

Alex GallagherJul 26, 2023

This from Nick Cohen substack ...

"Paranoid seductions: Sir Roger Scruton and the rise of the hard right"

I will read this article with interest. My first memory of Scruton is a quote in the Guardian Diary (remember that)- about 1983/4? urging Thatcher to cut the school leaving age to 14 for working class children as they didn't need much more education than basic literacy and numeracy for their restricted lives.
https://nickcohen.substack.com/p/paranoid-seductions-sir-roger-scruton?utm_source=twitter&sd=pf

#politics #ukpolitics #scruton #farright