Commentary on Politics and Dandyism

What does it mean to be a political person?

The term identity politics was popular in the 80's and 90's, and used to describe a type of confluence of personal markers. These could be race, ethnicity, gender, or class, for example. This remains a viable term I believe, to explore questions of marginalized self-hood and might be expanded to inlclude cultural communities; goths, punks or emos, indie culture, skins and celts or hip-hop and black-american. Is this a dandyism? It depends perhaps on its function within society. The Dandy I beleive constructs a form of culturality which is artistic. And that it is better to use Public-Intellectual to describe a politically motivated subjectivity, or grouping. But that these could intertwine when exploring notions of cultural heritage, of the arts but also of generations of people and of neighborhoods.


The space of culture is confronted alas with the space of nature. That culture is an exigence. There is a preoccupation here with naturalism, with the site of reflection, whether artistic or political, or let us say environmental. Because a making occurs, and as a dandy it provokes the notion of a site, a locus of melancholic betrayal. Yet there is adventure here, and though as well indie sustainablity. What I am reminded of then is resource use, and not quite those romantic forrays into the wilderness. This is because here my romance with nature is too arduous to conceive, though I still want to build, rat-like within this space. And to wonder about my environmentalism later. To deffer the isssues and to concoct or weave a techno-indie scenography.