In reference to the Tax article:
I don't believe art and politics ought to be merged. James Joyce had an excellent way of looking at this issue. He wrote that "the feelings excited by improper art are kinetic, desire or loathing. Desire urges us to possess,... loathing urges us to abandon, to go from something. These are kinetic emotions. The arts which excite them, pornographical or didactic, are therefore improper arts. The esthetic emotion (I use the general term) is therefore static. The mind is arrested and raised above desire and loathing."Portrait of the Artist
Political or didactic art can never give the means to take control over ones lives because the experiencing subject is always being moved in a highly programmatic fashion.
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