Should a Manifesto Be Only Positive Points Or Counter Negative Points It Raises?

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Firstmanifestodiscussion

Feb2013

ensuringaspacefor"Real criticalthinkingmeans involvesuncoveringandquestioningsocial,politicalandmoralassumptions”

Should a manifesto be only positive points or counter negative points it raises?

SpacethroughwhichtheArts[VA1]comeaboutandtakeplace,somethingindivisiblefromlearningandevolutionare indivisible

Thedevelopment[VA2]ofthemindiscentraltolifebeyondmeresurvival

Theright[alegalframing]tocommunicatefreelyisthereforenot subservienttogovernmentpolicy-howthenisarights-discoursevulnerabletopartypoliticalinterference?

Policyshouldnotinitselfgrowoutofpractice-asitisindangerofreinforcingthecorruptionwhichattendspaternalism.Howdowethendiscusspolicywithregardtopoliticalautonomy?

'the instrumental use of creativity'isanideologywherebytheartsto serveother instrumentalagendas is a secondary benefit

TheArtshas donothaveanintrinsicbeneficialvaluetosociety-asbothbenefitandvaluearesubjectiveandinneedofdefinitionanddefending.

When governments repress their citizens freedom of expression is the first victim

Howdoweaddressthepre-historiesandlegaciesThe language of culturalmanagement?is disconnected from reality

Policycan doeschange-theartsculturealsositacrosspoliciesandaresubjecttopolicyattachmentandtransfer

A false language has evolved

Peopleshouldbe allowed to becomehavethecapacityandmeanstoshapeandchangeinstruments in shaping theirownrealitycollectivelife-world

Artcanhelpsusfind challengemeaningand inshapingeourlivesit is-itsisnotfundamentaltoexistence,butitisalitmusofdemocraticfreedoms

It is theArtcanbepartofthatmirror reflexiveprocessbywhichwecommunicate with ourselves,exchangenew ideasandknowledgeandunderstandourselveshumannature[VA3]

WhatisthesState'snon-neutralroleinre-distributing publicmoney;howshouldweaccountforbothsufficientpoliticalautonomyandpublicaccountabilityfunding of independent creative expression is a pinnacle of inthepursuitofsuchdemocraticexpressions?acy

Cultural Howmightculturalpolicycometoshould createautonomous,democraticpublicspacesofcommunicationforinthepursuitofdevelopmentofdeveloping humanexperience?

Funding Howdoesstatepolicyrelatetomechanismsofpublicfundingshould inprotectinganddevelopingsocietalspacesforcriticalthinking[notthecriticalthinkingitself]?

Only the criminal and the artist can tell you what is of value in Society

Culture and Commerce are Thenegativeeffectsofcommercialismareincompatiblewithculturaldiversity,equalityandculturalrenewal.

A Isapluralisticculturerecognises theembodimentofanequalityofdifference,onewhichdoesn'tlockusintoascribedidentities?Thatis,theoppositeofan'equalityofopportunity',northeadvocacyof'pluralmonoculturalism'(iemulticulturalism).

It promotes aWhatmightarighttocommunication,andtocommunicatedifference,n expanding sense of selfenshrinedin and the humanrights(asourrelationtothestate)actuallyto communicate differencelooklike?

How/whereisculturalpolicy'made'?Inthat,whatisarts'relationtothisthingcalledculture?Whatshouldculturalgovernancelooklike-thatis,artsrelationtothestateandtopublicmoney?Creative Scotland is a product of policy it does not make policy

Theestablishmentofthe‘CulturalIndustries’sectorgrewoutofThatcheritemarket-drivenideologynurturedandlovinglyimplementedbyNewLabour

InScotland,iItarisesfromintellectuallylazypolicyadoption-itspeakstoacritical'academicabsenteeism'intheseprocesses.

Economicdevelopmentpolicyhassubsumedculturalpolicyoverthelasttwodecades.

Weproposeanoverhaulofoursystemsofculturalgovernance-onewhichalsorepresentsalearningexperienceforculturalpractitioners.

The creation of jobs, wealth and sustainabilityEconomicperformance,thegrowthofGDP,isthemantrathatsweepsmoremeaningfuldebateofhowtootherwiseconstitute'value'beforeit,obscuringallotheractuallyrelevantsystemsofvalue.

All people should have access to artistic experience, a right to communicate, a right to play

Without Ontheconditionofculturaldemocracyality,allpeopleshouldhaveaccesstoartisticexperience,notsimplyasconsumersbutasproducers-arightnotsimplyofexpressionbutofcommunication(uponwhichexpressionisbased),arighttoplay![Whataretheimplicationsforarights-baseddiscourse-onewhichenshrinesregulatorypowerwithinstatemechanisms?]

The opening up critical and political societal spaces for active participation - forms of experience that are not first-off consumptive. [Before, this was contradictory - either culture can in fact hold open those critical societal spaces 'as a fact' regardless of that which comes to constitute it, or it is the privileged ambivalent/contradictory status of the arts within society which elect to 'offer' active participation to the otherwise other. Suppose distinction I'm making is between the arts as gatekeeper to access a critical space which they themselves form in practice, or the arts as the outcome of having that critical societal space...]

Youcannotfix‘Culture’itisalwayschanging.[ThisasksaquestionoftherelationtoaNationalCulture,aNationalCanon,andthereforeaNationalGaze-whichisnotexplicitlyaddressedbutshouldbe. How are we to understand the shift from Welfare Nationalism to Competitive Nationalism?] and has a right to change, you locate change by looking at CS as on outcome of government policy

Whatever the answers may be, for them to constitute an emancipatory relation within advanced capitalist societies today, they must engage in the struggle to wrest non-capitalist life from capitalist life.We propose a progressive cultural policy that represents a learning opportunity for artists

New forms of experience that are not purely consumptive but offer critical and political spaces for active participation.

[VA1]By 'art' we mean social praxis/communication? What is relation/differentiation btw 'the arts' and 'culture'?

[VA2]and putting into practice - is not a separated sphere

[VA3]western aesthetics are not universal