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Podcast: Professor Kozlowski Lectures
Episode: Dehumanization and Propaganda
Description: Oh boy. Â Today Professor Kozlowski is talking about Ortega y Gasset's 1925 essay "The Dehumanization of Art", which observes that contemporary art movements (like early modernism in literature, or abstraction and dada in visual art) are "dehumanizing", or de-prioritizing human experience in favor of artifice itself. Â But he's actually going to talk about the political dimension of art and literature - how politicians in WWI, WWII, and the Cold War co-opted art and artists to serve propagandist purposes, and whether or not art can be successfully separated from its political dimension. Â Today espionage, skullduggery, and military agendas meets philosophy, aesthetics, and...