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Old 09-05-2010, 01:45 AM   #17
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Thanks, Davem. That's interesting– I wonder if Miéville's changed his mind in the intervening years, or if this is just a matter of wearing a different "hat".

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I'm interested in this notion of consolation. Does Tolkien's literature merely console?
No, I don't think so– c.f. Miéville's own more recent comments.

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Should it challenge us (read: challenge notions of capitalist hegemony) or are we complicit in some exploitative bourgeois idyll?
As I said, this depends on whether you believe that authors have a duty to promote socialist values. I certainly don't, and I'm hardly a conservative. Note also that on this criteria, most of the authors praised in the first article "fail" most of the time.

I also find your use of "complicit" quite troubling here. Whether you mean it to or not, it literally implies that simply reading a book with the "wrong" social values is an immoral act. After all:
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complicity: n. partnership in a crime or wrongdoing.
EDIT:X'd with Morth.
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