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| Art in the American Outback ... |
Saturday, August 02, 2008 --- 36 days ago http://www.artsjournal.com/flyover/2008/07/the_science_of_satire.html
 Psychologist Mahzarin R. Banaji, in the Chronicle Review , takes issue with The New Yorker ’s recent cover depicting Barack Obama in Muslim garb fist-pumping his wife Michelle who is dressed as a terrorist. The flag burns in the fireplace of the Oval Office while a portrait of Osama bin Laden looks on. Banaji says the cover’s intended satire is a failure on the part of the magazine’s editors to recognize what actually happens in the human brain when it interact with such images. From the Chronicle Review : If he [cartoonist Barry Blitt] were cognizant of the facts about how the mind works, the simple associations that typify the brain’s ordinary connection-making, he might have thought differently before he sketched the first flame in that fireplace. If he had paid attention to a few of the dozens of experiments available — even in the popular media — that describe how the mind learns and believes, he and his boss wouldn’t have responded as they did to the questions posed to them the day after the cover appeared. I am, as are most others in my social class, an emphatic defender of the arts as a primary vehicle to irritate, aggravate, and offend. I have been trained to step back and rethink my reaction to that which jolts and nauseates me. I know that, in such moments especially, I must look within for a possible inability to transcend ingrained values. For that reason, and because we who read The Chronicle are likely to be among the sta ... |
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