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TWO WORLDS,
TWO PLANS
THE NOTION OF “TOTALITARIANISM”
AND TOTALITARIAN ART
What is this,
and How do we get here?:
- INFLUENTIAL GERMAN-AMERICAN POLITICAL
THEORIST, LIVED THROUGH EARLY NAZI REGIME,
FLED TO FRANCE, THEN TO AMERICA
- Colonial vs. Continental expansionism:
two contexts of racism and imperialism
- PAN-SLAVISM AND PAN-GERMANISM
- SUBORDINATION OF ALL INTERESTS
TO THE WILL OF THE STATE
- TOTALITARIANISM VS AUTOCRACY:
COMPLETE CONTROL OF EVERYDAY LIFE
DESIRE FOR WORLD DOMINATION
VS.
POLITICAL CONTROL AND SUPPRESSION
I.E. ITALY ???
„DIE ELEMENTE UND URSPRÜNGE
TOTALER HERRSCHAFT“
Political
Message
Subordinate to
Artistic
Conveyance
“Mainly Art
not Politics”
Obfuscation,
Superficiality
TWO SOCIETIES,
TWO THEORIES
Rejuvination and
National Socialism
TWO SOCIETIES,
TWO THEORIES
GAINING CONTROL
CONSTRUCTION
AND RECONSTRUCTION
Infrastructure Expansion,
National Defense
INDUSTRIALIZATION
REARMAMENT, AND DUAL-USE
FOREIGN OUTLOOK
“CLASS” AND
“CLASSLESSNESS”
Corporatism – Corporate subordination
and/or marriage to concerns of state
Private
property
retained,
unless it is
challenge to
State authority
“Petit-
Bourgeois”
Or
“Kleinburger”
THE LEADER
THE LEADER
THE LEADER
THE GOAL
THE GOAL
THE NATIONAL SOCIALIST MAN
THE NATIONAL SOCIALIST MAN
WOMAN AND FAMILY
IN NAZI GERMANY
THE SOVIET MAN
THE SOVIET MAN
THE SOVIET WOMAN
THE SOVIET WOMAN
THE FASCIST MENACE
THE FASCIST MENACE
THE BOLSHEVIK THREAT
THE BOLSHEVIK THREAT
THE UNIFORM
“HIGH ART”
“HIGH ART”
“HIGH ART”
“HIGH ART”
“HIGH ART”
“HIGH ART”
“HIGH ART”
HISTORICAL INSPIRATION
THE GLORIOUS PAST
TOTALITARIAN FILM
TOTALITARIAN FILM
THE MUSIC
Nazi German
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C9zfHpiS4Ug
(les Preludes – deutsche wochenschau)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qy0fhvTLNlY&feature=related
(when the soldiers march)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ip4FtVxrkFg
(pariser einzugsmarsch – paris 1940)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8_Bd14eUhrU&feature=related
(beethoven’s 9th on hitler’s birthday)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bUsePoATbrU&feature=related
(lili marlene – ww2 version)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qYim85Z5Njk
(if war comes tomorrow)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yy8mxh0P63M&feature=related
(the sacred war)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y68NhY6b4hk
(blue handkerchief)
Right Wing rhetoric - the obama poster
increases In state power
broadest “socialism”:
welfare in general, language of class struggle,
any state imposition on market, etc.
may re-create this phenomenon
Left wing rhetoric – the end of history? specter of “inverted totalitarianism”:
politics, arts, life dominated by
the market and corporation
a “Lazy” notion: too broad, non-specific,
ignores important differences
TOTALITARIANISM: MODERN INTERPRETATIONS