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Does the highlighted section mean "as extravagance in the material and symbolic values that constituted the the economic and moral frameworks governing everyday life"?
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Indeed, both Hirst and Emin seem to conform to a particular type of celebrity based on notoriety, which has precursors in the arts with personalities such as those of Lord Byron and Oscar Wilde. As Chris Rojek has pointed out, ‘the figure of notoriety possesses colour, instant cachet, and may even, in some circles, be invested with heroism for daring to release the emotions of blocked aggression and sexuality that civilisation seeks to repress.’Here, notoriety is seen as the exhibitionistic and conspicuous transgression of ordinary moral conduct and as something that taps into ‘the surplus material and symbolic value that is inherent in the economic and moral frameworks governing everyday life’.
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I think she means that day-to-day life restricts us to familiar material and symbols, and their notoriety brings into play unfamiliar material and symbols. We see other modes of being in their antics that would have lain dormant without them. Or something like that.
- I think she means that day-to-day life restricts us to familiar material and symbols, and their notoriety brings into play unfamiliar material and symbols.
- We see other modes of being in their antics that would have lain dormant without them.
- Or something like that.
- I'll bet she defines her terms a little elsewhere.
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I think she means that day-to-day life restricts us to familiar material and symbols, and their notoriety brings into play unfamiliar material and symbols. We see other modes of being in their antics that would have lain dormant without them. Or something like that. I'll bet she defines her terms a little elsewhere.
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