Experiments in Criticism Symposium

"The following words are angry. Their author has discarded the separation between emotion and analysis customary in his line of work. How else could a warm-blooded art writer respond when our most successful artists are increasingly implicated in making urban lives miserable, if not impossible, for the non-affluent?" -- Mitch Speed 

The preceding words are disingenuous. Their author, who knows better, refuses to consider that as long as there is language there will never be a “separation between emotion and analysis,” and that the 19th century custom that upholds this false separation belongs as much to those who concentrate power as it does to those who seek the equitable re-distribution of that power.

Why the author chose to open his essay in the third person, then switch to the first person, is further evidence of what isn't working in his affected discussion of art and contexts. Hopefully his essay will be addressed at C Magazine's May 22-24 Experiments in Criticism Symposium. Submissions will be accepted until February 16, 2020.