{"id":10307,"date":"2026-06-10T23:58:06","date_gmt":"2026-06-10T20:58:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eero.storijapan.net\/docfolio\/?p=10307"},"modified":"2026-06-11T20:47:36","modified_gmt":"2026-06-11T17:47:36","slug":"say-better-preserve-original-style","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eero.storijapan.net\/docfolio\/say-better-preserve-original-style\/","title":{"rendered":"Say better, preserve original style:"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Slavoj \u017di\u017eek is right in their analysis: it is easier to imagine the end of the world than it is to imagine an alternative to capitalism. In this TED talk, we expand on that proposition\u2014or rather, use the same insight and roll with it.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>And I won\u2019t spend fifteen minutes of your life dressing up a simple observation with embellishment: for artists, it is easier to imagine the end of capitalism than it is to speak about class.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Speaking about class demands an acknowledgement that it is not simply a matter of recounting a personal history, or isolated experience. It means recognising that the particular artistic expression itself is a manifestation of working-class culture, working-class history, and working-class desire.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>And that is the difficult truth we are trying to confront\u2014the hard pill we fail to swallow.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Thank you.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Slavoj \u017di\u017eek is right in their analysis: it is easier to imagine the end of the world than it is to imagine an alternative to capitalism. In this TED talk, we expand on that proposition\u2014or rather, use the same insight and roll with it. And I won\u2019t spend fifteen minutes of your life dressing up &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/eero.storijapan.net\/docfolio\/say-better-preserve-original-style\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Say better, preserve original style:&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[96,1588,95],"class_list":["post-10307","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-log","tag-96","tag-art-writing","tag-slavoj-zizek"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eero.storijapan.net\/docfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10307","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eero.storijapan.net\/docfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eero.storijapan.net\/docfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eero.storijapan.net\/docfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eero.storijapan.net\/docfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10307"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/eero.storijapan.net\/docfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10307\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eero.storijapan.net\/docfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eero.storijapan.net\/docfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eero.storijapan.net\/docfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}