Art has never once been a real threat to the status quo in the way the comic is saying. At best, you have art produced by the subaltern like Palestinian art which destabilizes the colonial order. And Palestinians do use AI art which is as destabilizing to the Zionist colonial order as any other type of art. There is not a single antifa formation more worthy of being antifascist than Al-Qassam Brigade for the sheer number of fascists they have liquidated, and even Al-Qassam Brigade has used AI art for their propaganda. They have more important things to do like blowing up tanks and sniping IOF goons, so they offload less important things to technological tools.
And the idea that artists are generally on the left or that fascist art is not actually art is ahistorical in the first case, post hoc cope in the second… the nazis made tons of propaganda movies, and so did plenty of other fascist or comprador regimes. In fact even today the nazis are remembered for their uniforms. Futurism was a fascist movement originally, and Salvador Dali (surrealism) was a huge fash.
The common argument that fascist art is not art is because it subordinates art to propaganda, or that they lose the independence to make what they want to make. Everything in capitalism is progaganda get real, even fanfic or fanart, even if the author doesn’t intend it. It repeats their ideas and they get their ideas from their social context. In fact a lot of these arguments against fascist art were made after World War 2 to equate the soviets with the nazis.
Even this comic artist’s comic would not be considered art under these rules because it is propaganda before being artistic expression.
Art is an output of material conditions, it doesn’t somehow exist outside of society, trying to study artistic movements outside of their context as if universal laws could be fished out from them.
Art has never once been a real threat to the status quo in the way the comic is saying. At best, you have art produced by the subaltern like Palestinian art which destabilizes the colonial order. And Palestinians do use AI art which is as destabilizing to the Zionist colonial order as any other type of art. There is not a single antifa formation more worthy of being antifascist than Al-Qassam Brigade for the sheer number of fascists they have liquidated, and even Al-Qassam Brigade has used AI art for their propaganda. They have more important things to do like blowing up tanks and sniping IOF goons, so they offload less important things to technological tools.
And the idea that artists are generally on the left or that fascist art is not actually art is ahistorical in the first case, post hoc cope in the second… the nazis made tons of propaganda movies, and so did plenty of other fascist or comprador regimes. In fact even today the nazis are remembered for their uniforms. Futurism was a fascist movement originally, and Salvador Dali (surrealism) was a huge fash.
The common argument that fascist art is not art is because it subordinates art to propaganda, or that they lose the independence to make what they want to make. Everything in capitalism is progaganda get real, even fanfic or fanart, even if the author doesn’t intend it. It repeats their ideas and they get their ideas from their social context. In fact a lot of these arguments against fascist art were made after World War 2 to equate the soviets with the nazis.
Even this comic artist’s comic would not be considered art under these rules because it is propaganda before being artistic expression.
Art is an output of material conditions, it doesn’t somehow exist outside of society, trying to study artistic movements outside of their context as if universal laws could be fished out from them.
Art is not the revolution, art can play a part, as in spreading ideology, but that is just the start. To quote a song I really like.