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

31 Comments

  1. 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. A D Jameson—

      Terrorism pays better.

  3. Nicholas Williard—

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

  4. Brooks Sterritt—

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

  5. j orloski—

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

  6. j orloski—

       also, zero access to the virgins promised.

  7. E.A. Beeson—

      Terrorism doesn’t necessarily involve a murder.

  8. 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. Bobby Dixon—

      Good mothers are proud of good terrorists. 

  10. Taylor Napolsky—

      Violence and fear?

  11. 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. 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. 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. Nathan Goldman—

      This is super silly.

  15. 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. Trey—

      they both prevent aliens from wanting to contact us

  17. 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. marshall mallicoat—

      fucc thiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiis

  19. marshall mallicoat—

       shut the fuck up dude

  20. 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. 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. alan—

      your answer is “sensible” and pointless

  23. alan—

      Ask Stockhausen.

  24. M. Kitchell—

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

  25. Anonymous—

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

  26. Frank Tas, the Raptor—

      Spelling

  27. 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. 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. reynard—
  30. 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. Kate Dino—

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