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Ep. 79: Politics Doesn't Care About Your Art

Young Heretics

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Plato's Mymesis Theory of Art

Plato also elaborates an extremely sophisticated theory of how art works in the world that's going to be a foundation for criticism all kinds going forward. When we do art, we basically imitate things. And mymesis has a power to shape the soul. Because when i imitate things, i kind of take them on. We have to be very careful about what kinds of imitations we do.

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