a reminder
From the section of Verso’s Aesthetics and Politics that deals with Benjamin’s notes on conversations with Brecht:
24 July 1934. On a beam which supports the ceiling of Brecht’s study are painted the words: ‘Truth is concrete.’ On a window-sill stands a small wooden donkey which can nod its head. Brecht has hung a little sign round its neck on which he has written: ‘Even I must understand it.’
Damn, that’s really good.
I’m going to post about this more fully soon, but everyone should pick up a copy of this volume. It is absolutely fantastic - perhaps the best introduction (not just an introduction though) of the intricate historical and interpersonal development of (western) marxist aesthetics I could imagine.