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From the start, then, his work was high-minded and cross-disciplinary.
The counterculture was defeated, and in its place came plague, death, and Reaganism.
I truly dont miss the old days.
The 80s and the financialization of everything shaped the nature of his opposition.
(The Schwarzenegger Syndrome: Politics and Celebrity in the Age of Contemptexplores exactly this.)
But unfocused spite sprays of purposeless vandalism can be funny for only so long.
Yet theres always a certain sympathy and mystery to his diagnoses.
Who knows what hearts and souls have in them?
he asks inHorse Crazy.
(Still, a nice scrim of scatological filth keeps things from getting too sentimental.
During his recent reappraisal, writers have often commented on the redemptive potential of Indianas venom.
The critic Tobi Haslettonce said, Indiana wielded a mace when no mere pinprick would pop the bubble.
Infatuation opens his characters to, and delimits the extent of their participation in, the world.
But whats a critic without his knife?
