Politics and Art

[nalpak retrac]

To what degree do political situations provide material for your work?

Does the following represent something artists need to address?

http://www.rotwangsrobot.net/prototy...topic.php?t=26

[DeeCrowSeer]

I suppose it depends what you mean by "political", but many of my stories have been shaped by internal debates I was having while writing them concerning "issues". At the moment, I'm trying to be vaguely satirical about the "terrorist threat", but I doubt very much that I'm the next Orwell. Again, I'm not trying to be PC, or promote a conscious agenda, I'm just purging what has leaked into my brain during the days before I sat down to write. No doubt there is an agenda, but I'm too biased in its favour to notice. :)

As for this particular topic, the city I've created for my stories is verging on a police state as it is, so this story will feed into that, but probably not in a recognisable form. I was inspired by real events, rap songs and Oscar Wilde's play Vera, so I can't claim to be responding to the headlines as such. In many ways casting cops as villains is rather lazy... but it makes for great conflict if the "authorities" are against your protagonist from the very start.

[PsychicWarVeteran]

What they're doing sounds like something straight out of Crash City, if you ask me. I'd have thought they got the idea from Dee!

[Poetgrrl]

politics allows me a place to vent on my blog. i haven't found it to inspire me to something really good in a story or a poem, though.