June 21st, 2012 / 1:42 am
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What exactly is the difference between “art” and “terrorism?”

31 Comments

  1. June 21st, 2012 / 1:47 am Jimmy Chen—

      terrorism is the waltz between christianity and islam, art is an atheist doing ‘the robot’ alone in the gallery of his mind

  2. June 21st, 2012 / 1:53 am A D Jameson—

      Terrorism pays better.

  3. June 21st, 2012 / 1:55 am Nicholas Williard—

      what exactly is the difference between ____ and ____? [insert 2 unrelated nouns]

  4. June 21st, 2012 / 2:06 am Brooks Sterritt—

      art as limbo w/r/t profit margins, terrorism as death tango

  5. June 21st, 2012 / 2:49 am j orloski—

       not much. people who take up either always end up dead and hated.

  6. June 21st, 2012 / 2:50 am j orloski—

       also, zero access to the virgins promised.

  7. June 21st, 2012 / 2:59 am E.A. Beeson—

      Terrorism doesn’t necessarily involve a murder.

  8. June 21st, 2012 / 3:47 am deadgod—

      Though your life will be poorer, with tenacity, you’ll survive ignoring the artfulness of made things.

      If you can ignore it, it’s not, or not successful, terrorism.

  9. June 21st, 2012 / 8:03 am Bobby Dixon—

      Good mothers are proud of good terrorists. 

  10. June 21st, 2012 / 9:37 am Taylor Napolsky—

      Violence and fear?

  11. June 21st, 2012 / 11:31 am Matt Tyler—

      “I shall not today attempt further to define the kinds of material I understand to be embraced within that shorthand description; and perhaps I could never succeed in intelligibly doing so. But I know it when I see it…”  

  12. June 21st, 2012 / 2:09 pm deadgod—

      Potter Stewart on “hard-core pornography”?

      Summarily pragmatic, but also destructively intellectually coarse.

      If you know it when you see it, and you’re as competent with language as a Supreme Court judge, artful writer, or, hell, interested citizen or reader should be, then, without defining “it” perfectly, you can put into words usefully what “it” is that you know you “know”.

      (–“you” being, in the case Matt quotes, Stewart…)

      I think it’s a mistake, not just epistemologically, but in practice, for subjectivity to be an excuse for ‘pragmatically’ smearing terms into a confidently judgmental blur.

  13. June 21st, 2012 / 2:49 pm Timothy Peyton—

      Do difference. if your art doesn’t attempt to shake people to the core then maybe your not willing to explode for it in the first place. 

  14. June 21st, 2012 / 3:00 pm Nathan Goldman—

      This is super silly.

  15. June 21st, 2012 / 3:20 pm QKSTKGRYFTS—

      “TERRORISM” IS THE ACT OF SYSTEMATICALLY USING VIOLENCE TO COERCE.

      “ART” IS ANYTHING CREATED FOR AN AESTHETIC PURPOSE.

      THAT QUESTION IS ABSURD & “POINTLESS”.

  16. June 21st, 2012 / 3:51 pm Trey—

      they both prevent aliens from wanting to contact us

  17. June 21st, 2012 / 6:30 pm jtc—

      i have a character in this thing i’m working on ask and then pursue the same question. he doesn’t get an answer, yet. or, at least one that’s in any way satisfying. and the question, especially asked in this way, feels facetious or even, yeah, absurd. but as silly as it sounds…i do think there’s an interesting nugget of…something…here…you should rephrase it into an essay that ‘explores the issue,’ and then see what people say. also you should just write my novel i don’t want to do it anymore.

  18. June 21st, 2012 / 6:49 pm marshall mallicoat—

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  19. June 21st, 2012 / 6:50 pm marshall mallicoat—

       shut the fuck up dude

  20. June 21st, 2012 / 7:44 pm reynard—

      i did a thing about this once

      did you know christopher guest is a lord in england? he’s a goddamn baron! recently a young possum was hanging out on my porch every night & i would yell at him, calling him an ‘ugly bastard’ & a ‘fucking freak’ & so on & one night the little shit came into my house & of course i chased him away but he wouldn’t leave so i stabbed him a couple of times with a kitchen knife & knocked him off the porch with a broom & he hit the domino table downstairs & i never saw him again — sometimes i wonder if i miss him, i remember the glazed, disinterested gaze of his beady eyes as i ran the blade thru his side & clenched my teeth, wishing i could feel his insides with my hand — anywho… hope you had an awesome day!

  21. June 21st, 2012 / 10:03 pm Anonymous—

      well am going to have to drop a link: http://www.terrorpeople.org (about to experience a redux and looking for contributors)  
       to  dichotomize or compare art/terrorism at first glance feels arbitrary and/or nihilistic. there is no difference. in the present state all action is terrorism, and all art is action. the symbolic act with the most impact of the new millenium was… for me it is a frustrating question because it doesn’t offer much (yet) besides a reinforcement of my sadness and complete demoralization regarding the culture i was born into. fuck it. i’m going to drive around in my camaro 

  22. June 21st, 2012 / 11:03 pm alan—

      your answer is “sensible” and pointless

  23. June 21st, 2012 / 11:04 pm alan—

      Ask Stockhausen.

  24. June 21st, 2012 / 11:32 pm M. Kitchell—

      nothing really, seeing as people only pretend to care about either most of the time

  25. June 21st, 2012 / 11:42 pm Anonymous—

      And this concludes our daily dose of Juvenile, Dudebro HTMLGiant Nihilism.

  26. June 22nd, 2012 / 12:49 am Frank Tas, the Raptor—

      Spelling

  27. June 23rd, 2012 / 4:28 am j orloski—

      one similarity: both are generally planned in a state of mind where the completion of the plan is either improbable or suicide.

  28. June 23rd, 2012 / 4:28 am j orloski—

      one similarity: both are generally planned in a state of mind where the completion of the plan is either improbable or suicide.

  29. June 23rd, 2012 / 10:48 am reynard—
  30. June 23rd, 2012 / 6:18 pm Caleb Powell—

      What’s the difference between “pickles” and “starvation.” Ask the Unabomber. This is a nonsense question, art & terrorism are so different. Only the narcissist artist seeking fake notoriety might think their art can have the effect of mass violence.

  31. June 25th, 2012 / 8:30 am Kate Dino—

      What about art *as* terrorism? I started crafting holiday gifts because I knew it annoyed people.