Gregory Rankine and Daniela Ironside's exhibition of new painting, drawing and sculpture at The Glasgow Art Club is now open.
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NOW OPEN: ‘Rubbing Spittle Into Cuts’
Gregory Rankine and Daniela Ironside's exhibition of new painting, drawing and sculpture at The Glasgow Art Club is now open.
![Screenshot of document: “ according to Arendt, totalitarian regimes employ the following strategies to achieve and maintain power that
‘works from within,’ meaning on an individual,
psychological level:
1. denial of economic realities / promotion of
‘classless’ society and conversion of social /
economic classes into masses, or mobs
2. propaganda and suppression of the media
3. terror, which becomes an “essential function of
government”
4. imposed statelessness, by which regimes decree
who does and does not count as “citizens”
4. supplanting intellectuals and creatives: “The
consistent persecution of every higher form of intellectual
activity by the new mass leaders springs from more than
their natural resentment against everything they cannot
understand … Totalitarianism [] invariably replaces all
first-rate talents, regardless of their sympathies, with
those crackpots and fools whose lack of intelligence and
creativity is still the best guarantee of their loyalty”
(377).
5. the imperial boomerang, or the idea that
governments that develop repressive techniques to
control colonial territories will eventually deploy those
same techniques domestically against their own citizens.
6. fake government functions, organizations, or
agencies
7. loneliness”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:hdb2v3lkf3ydb64xyyhc4ymv/bafkreihrpcj5ydzfg5purjcljupqspqkeqci3fpwgtgk7z4peygxdcwubq)
